Next year, Seven Media Group's taking TiVo to the folks down under. Targeting the free-to-air audience, SMG says the pricing will be "compelling." With all the feature-rich goodness TiVo's software offers, the competition isn't expected to play nice.

Australian TV networks already refuse to share their programming data so that DVRs can read it. Speculation is that with TiVo coming to town things aren't likely to get any better.