Opinion

Mark Cuban: Sports Black Eyes, Popeye and the Media

Authored by Mark Cuban on December 18, 2007 - 8:48am.

As inevitable as the Mitchell Report response was, how long will it be before we get the headline: "Popeye denies he knew spinach was a performance enhancing drug". "I had no idea. I was just eating my vegetables. It was supposed to make me stronger. It was what, 30 or more years ago ? How much did we really know about the properties of spinach back then ? Why is the media making such a big deal out of this ? I didn't know then and I am paying the price today.

TiVo's Fate: What's in the Cards?

Authored by colin_dixon on June 1, 2006 - 2:32pm.

There has been much speculation over the fate of TiVo. The investment community frets over the failure of TiVo to close business with the big operators. The advertising folks fret about the TiVo's lack of a large demographic footprint. The content community frets about the technology in general. The analysts pontificate over every missed deadline, every slip in subscriber growth, and each and every new product or service strategy TiVo announces.

With all this negativity and noise it's very easy to lose sight of the fact that the TiVo has before it a wonderful opportunity.