Editing TiVo (section)

==Competitors and market share==
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While its former main competitor in the United States, [[ReplayTV]], had adopted a commercial-skip feature, TiVo decided to avoid automatic implementation fearing such a move might provoke backlash from the television industry. ReplayTV was sued over this feature as well as the ability to share shows over the Internet, and these lawsuits contributed to the bankruptcy of [[SONICblue]],<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2003/03/58160 | magazine=Wired | title=Bankruptcy Blues for PVR Maker | date=24 March 2003}}</ref> its owner at the time. Its new owner, DNNA, dropped both features in the final ReplayTV model, the 5500.

After demonstrating the WebTV capability at the same 1999 CES with TiVo and ReplayTV demonstrating their products, Dish (then named Dish Network) a few months later added DVR functionality to their DishPlayer 7100 (and later its 7200) with its Echostar unit producing the hardware while Microsoft provided the software that included WebTV, the same software Microsoft would later use for its UltimateTV DVR for DirecTV. The TiVo, ReplayTV, and DishPlayer 7100 represent very first DVRs that were in development at the same time and were released to market at about the same time.

SONICblue, the owners of ReplayTV would file for bankruptcy after being sued for its ability to automatically skip commercials and other features that were thought to violate copyrights; Echostar (Dish) would eventually sue Microsoft in 2001 for failing to support the software in DishPlayer 7100 and 7200 with Dish ending their relationship with Microsoft and cease offering the DishPlayer 7100/7200 to its subscribers and, instead, produce their own in-house DVR; and DirecTV would eventually drop Microsoft's UltimateTV and keep DirecTiVo as its only DVR offering for quite some time.

Other distributors' competing DVR sets in the United States include [[Comcast]] and [[Verizon]], although both distribute third-party hardware from manufacturers such as [[Motorola]] and the former [[Scientific Atlanta]] unit of [[Cisco Systems]] with this functionality built-in. Verizon uses boxes fitted for [[FiOS]], allowing high-speed Internet access and other features. However, TiVo is compatible with the FiOS TV service because when the TV programming arrives at the home via FiOS Fiber to the Home network, it is converted to CableLabs specification QAM channels exactly as those used by cable TV companies. AT&T is an IPTV service that is incompatible with the TiVo.

Despite having gained 234,000 subscribers in the last quarter of 2011,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investor.tivo.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=106292&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1664735&highlight=|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120713141619/http://investor.tivo.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=106292&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1664735&highlight=|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 July 2012|title=TiVo's Q4 2011 Results|website=Investor.tivo.com|date=23 February 2012}}</ref> as of January 2012 TiVo had only (approximately) 2.3 million subscribers in the United States. This is down from a peak of 4.36 million in January 2006.<ref name="tbn2008-12-05">{{cite web|url=https://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101103220518/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-11-03|title=TV By The Numbers by zap2it.com|website=TV By The Numbers by zap2it.com}}</ref> As of January 31, 2016, TiVo reported 6.8 million subscribers.<ref>{{cite news|title=Stat of the Week |work=[[Broadcasting & Cable]] |date=March 7, 2016|page=4}}</ref>