It's been almost a full week since we published our
PVR poll. The response has been great! On Sunday afternoon, we were at 489 votes, so yesterday I asked for more votes to take it over 500. Now the total is 547 -- and probably still growing.
The winner, at 50 percent, is TiVo. But when you add the standalone TiVo's 275 votes with the DirecTV TiVo's 72 votes, the total of Tivo users is 63 percent. So nearly two-thirds of our readership own a TiVo, which helps us decide which news items are more important and which tips and hacks will be the most widely received.
Still, 37 percent of respondents own something else, so we're not going to forget about you! And I imagine that some of the other 63 percent wouldn't mind trying or owning another kind of PVR if they saw it was better or more convenient.
ReplayTV received 57 votes, or 10 percent of the votes. Dish Network had 6 percent, Comcast came in at 29 votes for 5 percent, linux solution MythTV had 24 votes for 4 percent and Windows Media Center had just 20 votes for 4 percent of the vote. Another Linux program, freevo, had three votes for 1 percent. Interestingly, 33 voters, or 6 percent of the total, don't own a PVR.
| TiVo (275) |
50% |
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| ReplayTV (57) |
10% |
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| Windows Media Center (20) |
4% |
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| Dish Network (31) |
6% |
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| DirecTV TiVo (72) |
13% |
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| Comcast (29) |
5% |
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| Charter (4) |
1% |
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| MythTV (24) |
4% |
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| freevo (3) |
1% |
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| Don't have a PVR (33) |
6% |
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1. I've got a Tivo Series 2, a Humax Tivo with DVD Recorder, and an HD DirecTivo. Is that one vote or three?
Posted at 8:37AM on Jun 30th 2005 by Mark