u/ToadSox34

Previous homeowner did some sketchy DIY work in the basement in the 2000's or 2010's. I plan to go through all accessible switches and outlets, check splices and inspect for signs of damage and add AFCI breakers to the circuits. Anything else I should look for?

I posted this originally in r/AskElectricians with a post that actually has enough detail to provide an intelligent answer, but then everyone complained it's too long. Previous post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskElectricians/comments/1taa3sp/dealing_with_diy_magoos_wiring/

I've read a number of comments saying how "TiVo was mismanaged" and "TiVo failed to do this or that". Meanwhile, I tend of think of TiVo's downfall as a matter of the market moved on from DVR technology.

There are basically three narratives around TiVo's downfall:

1. TiVo was poorly run/mismanaged/didn't innovate.
2. Technology moved on from the disk-based DVR.
3. TiVo was locked out from cable due to the end of CableCard and may be locked out of OTA due to the A3SA DRM on ATSC 3.0.

Obviously the CableCard situation is a reality that was mostly or entirely out of TiVo's control, and even if the FCC had kept the mandate, MSOs are moving to IPTV anyway, which never had open access provisions.

That being said, how much of TiVo's downfall was due to their own mismanagement and lack of innovation, and how much was due to external factors?

Could TiVo have gotten their clearly superior DVR platform into MVPD boxes if they had been managed better? One mismanagement theory is that they were slow to release new software and slow to innovate, another is that their patent trolling turned potential partners away from them, and while they won some battles patent trolling, they lost the war.

If TiVo was better managed, would TiVo still exist as a cord cutting utopia combining ATSC 1.0, ATSC 3.0 (at least for stations not encumbered by the horrendous A3SA DRM), and streaming? Or something else entirely?