Richard Santalesa, of ZDNet Help & How-To, writes about the TiVo Personal TV Receiver, an innovative TV receiver appliance with embedded Linux inside. Santalesa writes . . .

“Small things do mean a lot, and someone at TiVo never forgot this, because the design sense distilled into the TiVo Personal TV Receiver is a technical homage to small things, adding up to one awesome piece of TV magic.”

“While Microsoft's hands are filled with other worries, Redmond could learn a few valuable lesson from tiny TiVo on how to design interfaces and software. Perhaps in this light it's not surprising that the TiVo PTR runs a Linux core on a PowerPC CPU, as the TiVo demands stability. Why? Because it's always on and always running. Seriously, there's no power switch.”

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