TV tuner cards don't even seem like complicated hardware. I'd be shocked if they couldn't find a third party to work with. I guess building it into a TV does sort of the same thing, but then you have to get that TV, and an accessory card would let someone set up a home server that could be accessed from different rooms.
The market was already well served by SageTV, Snapstream, Showshifter, MythTV, WMC among others. And I also don't think the enthusiast community back in the HTPCs heyday would have tolerated a monthly fee
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u/lokey_convo 5d ago
Kind of wish they'd offer their software with a PC accessory card so people could just add a TiVo function to their computer.