TiVo ends Mexican stand-off with DirecTV, lives to tape another day

We just saw news that TiVo has managed to wangle an extension of its arrangement with DirecTV.

The stock shot up a bunch, nearly eight percent by the close of the market, and we’re not surprised: effectively sparing itself a horrible death from an “Attack of the Cloned” – i.e. knock-off DVRs.

It’s still in a bad way, though. TiVo, while clealy a god-machine to the media elite, is facing the same headaches IBM faced when Dell and HP began offering cheaper clones that did much the same thing as their PC.