I think it’s safe to assume that Brad Choate really-really likes his TiVo. However, he has made some interesting points about TiVo’s future uses:

“I also expect that we’ll be using the TV for video e-mail and home-to-home video conferencing. That’s a killer application waiting to happen. Something that would drive a market to broadband faster than Superman puts on his tights.”

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