Have TiVo blown their chances?

History is full of companies with great ideas that failed to capitalise on them, and although their ideas and innovation lives on in the products of others, the originators seem to wither away and die because of poor business sense. I wonder increasingly if Tivo will become yet another of these footnotes in the history of the PVR. It seems the recent loss of their CEO may have been due to his failure to complete a deal with Comcast to license their software. Although it would have resulted in less than $1/month in revenues per box, the potential for starting a relationship with millions of consumers was huge.

Matt Haughey has more to say.