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Viewer anger has prompted the BBC to consider ending its two-year-old marketing deal with TiVo, the digital video recorder company, after customers found that a BBC sitcom was recorded on the machine without their consent.
Owners of the machines complained of "TV spam", likening the programme to unwanted e-mail, after TiVo set the 50,000 machines used in Britain to record Dossa and Joe as part of its tie-up with the BBC.
Now the BBC has said: "We have learnt a very big lesson." Sources say the corporation is reviewing the future of the service. The threat is a serious worry for TiVo, which is still a start-up company, and lost £17.7m in the past three months of trading.
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Owners of the machines complained of "TV spam", likening the programme to unwanted e-mail, after TiVo set the 50,000 machines used in Britain to record Dossa and Joe as part of its tie-up with the BBC.
Now the BBC has said: "We have learnt a very big lesson." Sources say the corporation is reviewing the future of the service. The threat is a serious worry for TiVo, which is still a start-up company, and lost £17.7m in the past three months of trading.
CLICK HERE, for the rest of the story