TiVo pauses live commerce

As of 19 September, TiVo's online store is still offline with the note "TiVo gift shoppers: While we work to complete improvements on the TiVo store, we are temporarily unable to offer gift subscriptions. Please accept our apologies and return soon. Thank you!" Rumor has it what really happened is that TiVo's third-party sales center operated by Metron went under. Details at Gizmodo and RealTechNews, sourced from tivocommunity.com. Metron was one of DirecTV's two largest distributors, and also outsourced for XM Radio, TiVo, Toshiba, Philips, and Circuit City.