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Google, Yahoo! could link up with DVR pioneer TiVo

[Tivo] has to have such grand visions for its service, otherwise it risks being lost in the woods as other companies try to pick off customers. The biggest threat to its business involves TiVo’s largest customer, DirecTV.

The satellite service operator accounts for more than half of TiVo’s subscribers. DirecTV said it would use software developer NDS as a second supplier for DVR technology. DirecTV has not turned on features beyond TiVo’s core DVR service, such as Home Media features, to the chagrin of DirecTV TiVo subscribers.

In addition, a DVR feature is at the heart of Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition, and satellite service company EchoStar Communications also features a DVR in its set-top boxes.

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