Awww crap. I just got a DirecTiVo for Christmas, too. I'd never even have wanted one if I'd have been able to figure out my IQ issues with my HTPC. Guess I maybe should've worked a bit harder on that, seeing as how the relationship between DTV & TiVo is now questionable...

"The combination of DirecTV's satellite service with products from subsidiary NDS , underscores News Corp.'s ambitions to spread its technology across its portfolio of companies globally. NDS also develops technology for BSkyB . DirecTV stepped down from TiVo's board last June creating speculation that the company would drop TiVo completely."