Shogun

Lots of people are leaving TiVo. We'll find out roughly how many when the company reports second-quarter results this afternoon. By a couple estimates, TiVo lost anywhere from 100,000 to 142,000 subscribers last quarter alone, which leaves the company with a subscriber base of around 3.7 million.

[UPDATE: Turns out the company lost a bit more -- the total subscriber base is now 3.6 million.]

Here's the thing: People aren't leaving just because they don't watch TV anymore, nor are they leaving because of the economy -- it's because of a relationship gone awry. When one of TiVo's most important distribution partners -- DirecTV -- rolled out its own digital recording service a couple years ago, TiVo was pretty much left in the dust.

http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/08/tivo.html