May 2005

Tivo Beats Estimates

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[TVHarmony] There is good financial news for Tivo investors as reported by CNet. Tivo beat analysts estimates and narrowed it's expected losses for the quarter. It also increased its subscriber base by 339,000 users (72,000 of which are non-DirecTv subscribers).

Posted at May 31, 2005 08:29 AM

Is TiVo On The Rebound?

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[The Wired Home Weblog - Transform your home into a digital media center - Akimbo TV Not Ready for Prime Time] The loss was dramatically smaller than expected partly because of new customers who inexplicably didn't turn in their rebates. By some estimates, as many as 50,000 people didn't turn in the coupons, saving the company around $5 million...

Posted at May 31, 2005 08:28 AM

Frustration!

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[Happythoughtathon.] Frustration! Filed under: General TiVo ”” MartinDB @ 22:26 - 226 My bloody TiVo turned over to record Scrubs with less than 20 laps of the Indy 500 to go. I’ve now got to wait until tomorrow morning to watch the end of the 1am showing...

Posted at May 31, 2005 08:27 AM

artists not making a dime from sites like iTunes Music Store

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[ Mediacentric] In fact, that sucks nearly as bad as artists not making a dime from sites like iTunes Music Store. It seems that of the 65 cents or so that the record labels make off of each download (and use to, among other things, pay people like Hilary to make sure we’re all inconvenienced with DRM), some artists make all of a dime or so — while others aren’t nearly as lucky.

Posted at May 31, 2005 08:26 AM

EarningsCast-TIVO-2005-Q1-TIVO

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[EarningsCast!] Service and technology revenues for the quarter increased 59% to $40.0 million, compared with $25.2 million for the same period last year. Net loss for the quarter was ($0.9) million, or ($0.01) per share, compared to a net loss of ($9.1) million, or ($0.11) per share, for the three months ended April 30, 2004.

Posted at May 30, 2005 09:38 AM

American Idol 2005

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[Skyzyx.com - Advocacy, Evangelism, and Propaganda for Web Standards] Last year, the top 32 sang in groups of 8 people per week for 4 weeks, before the group got whittled down to the top 12. In the first group of 8, the first person to sing was Diana Degarmo, and the last was Fantasia Barrino. After hearing them sing (and before I'd heard the other 24 contestants sing), I made the "official" prediction to my friends and family that 4-5 months later, Fantasia would finish #1 and Diana would finish #2.

Posted at May 30, 2005 09:37 AM

Conan's vision of television's future

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[TV Squad] beat him in the opening monolog. Conan is a far better interviewer than Jay but his opening routine is tiresome, childish and at times strange. I ti painful to see each night, Dave is by far the smartest of these three but you always get the impression that he cant wait to leave. Jay on the other hand has many faults and rough edges yet his saving grace is he loves to work , he loves his fans and audience, and he seem genuinely happy with his life.

Posted at May 30, 2005 09:36 AM

TiVo/iTunes Media Center System

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[Skyzyx.com - Advocacy, Evangelism, and Propaganda for Web Standards] An alternative method that I've tried out worked well since I have a PC and TiVo'd TV in my bedroom, and I have some 5.1 Surround speakers connected to my Windows XP machine. I launched iTunes, iSee iTunes, and Nicecast on my Powerbook. I broadcast a signal (via Nicecast) to iTunes on my PC, and had the audio play through my fancy speakers.

Posted at May 30, 2005 09:34 AM

How would you change TiVo?

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[PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviews] People spent the weekend answering the question "How would you change TiVo?" over on Engadget. Even TiVo loyalists will admit that there are imperfections with their PVR of choice. While the perennial favorites "Get rid of TiVoToGo DRM" (which is the root of the "Support x non-Windows platform" suggestions), "built in networking hardware," "dual tuners," "expandable storage" and "sell out to Apple" were all well represented, here are a few of the more interesting ones:

Posted at May 29, 2005 10:25 AM

TiVo interface to GoogleMaps

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[ Mediacentric] Engadget asks the musical question "How would you change TiVo?" Some interesting responses, along with some totally predictable ones. For me (as

Posted at May 29, 2005 10:23 AM

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[ Mediacentric] DirecTV offers the HD Tivo, but the price-point is awfully high for a “provider” PVR, and DirecTV’s current ownership is just as liable to orphan it as they have the DirecTivo. Since the satellite providers seem to be getting ready to shift to MPEG4, buying this (as opposed to leasing a PVR like the 942) is a real risk, as the odds of them doing a free upgrade of the box to MPEG4 seem pretty slim.

Posted at May 29, 2005 10:22 AM

The Grey Album

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[betED Blog] If you don’t have it yet, go grab the Grey Album. DJ Dangermouse mixed Jay Z’s Black Album with only cuts from the Beatles’ White Album. This is the hot stuff, it sounds even better than the Pharrell did producing the original. Entertainment Weekly called it the #1 Record of the Year for 2004.

Posted at May 29, 2005 10:21 AM

PVR to Mac Solutions: Which do you use?

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[The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)] Since you all know that I have a ReplayTV and use mReplay or DVArchive to grab shows for mobile viewing on my Powerbook, I thought I'd turn the question around to you: What PVR do you have and what do you use to grab shows off of it? Do you use something in particular to grab shows off of your TiVo box, or perhaps enjoy HDTV conversion to the Mac over Firewire with your Comcast PVR? Do you use a Mac mini in combination with an El Gato EyeTV?

Posted at May 28, 2005 11:33 AM

Downhill Battle

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[ Mediacentric] To commemorate the RIAA’s renewed efforts towards “let’s save our market by sueing our customers”, maybe it’s time to review just what all is wrong with the music industry as it stands — artists not making money of CDs (or pay-for-download sites, for that matter); narrowing diversity by pay-for-play radio, the marginalization of independent artists, etc...

Posted at May 28, 2005 11:30 AM

RIAA Doesn’t Care If You’re Dead

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[ Mediacentric] Apparently the RIAA now feels that dying isn’t a good enough excuse to not be sued for stealing music. More here: RIAA sues the dead.

Posted at May 28, 2005 11:28 AM

They’ll Huff, and they’ll puff

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[GoldSounds] Now, I’m normally not one to support near-monopolies, having been burnt time and again by Microsoft’s ham-handed exploitation and butchery of the software industry, but Hilary Rosen’s fervent desire to have Apple open up the iPod to other music stores seems counter-intuitive and downright strange (even to former Record Company execs) Apple’s iPod plays only standard, unencumbered music formats - MP3, AAC (the next-generation MP3, and an open format), WAV and Apple Lossless formats. On music from their own store, they place their own DRM wrapper around the AAC files in order to restrict the rights of the user to copy and share that music - a feature, I might add, that was demanded by Rosen’s own RIAA.

Posted at May 27, 2005 10:37 AM

People You Need to Meet: Chance

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[ktoddstorch @ business thoughts] has recently started working withAdam on some new thing called the Podshow (i think that's what it'scalled.) Anyway, C.C. was kind enough to promote my music to Adam'sshow, and that's how it got played, I believe. It was quite thesurprise to me; I heard about it the day or the day after it aired. I'dbe interested to hear what Adam thinks of the material.

Posted at May 27, 2005 10:35 AM

MPAA Grokster and the Supreme Court

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[Blog-A-Rama] This is one most tech folks are watching. Very interesting interview from the head of the MPAA. Much more reasoned than the hysterics always coming...

Posted at May 27, 2005 10:34 AM

Crusader Roundup

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[Ishbadiddle] And finally, on a different sort of crusade, the RIAA is apparently responsible for 2.3% of all cases filed in federal court.

Posted at May 26, 2005 01:07 PM

Odds Of Being Sued By RIAA

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[Nicholas Roussos] According to Slyck News, you've got a better chance of dying than being sued by the RIAA for file swapping. via A Welsh View

Posted at May 26, 2005 01:04 PM

Bush Signs Law Targeting P2P Pirates

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[ Vincent Brown’s Journal] File-swappers who distribute a single copy of a prerelease movie on the Internet can be imprisoned for up to three years, according to a bill that President Bush signed into law on Wednesday. The Family Entertainment and Copyright Act, approved by the House of Representatives last Tuesday, represents the entertainment...

Posted at May 26, 2005 01:03 PM

EchoStar vs. TiVo vs. EchoStar vs...

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[PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviews] EchoStar vs. TiVo vs. EchoStar vs... Proving that turnabout is fair play, EchoStar is suing TiVo for patent infringement. This is after TiVo sued EchoStar for patent infringement in January of 2004 over TiVo's "Multimedia time warping system," a suit that is still going on. EchoStar said that, on April 29, one of its units filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against TiVo and the U.S. unit of South Korea's Humax, alleging infringement of patents related digital video recorder (DVR) technology. ... In it counter suit, EchoStar charged TiVo and Humax are infringing by making devices that use technology patented by EchoStar between 1998 and 2003, including on called "Interruption Tolerant Video program Viewing." You can also read the EchoStar patent for yourself, in case the TiVo one didn't cure your insomnia. May 6, 2005 by George Hotelling in TiVo...

Posted at May 23, 2005 10:49 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

TiVo: The solution to all of life’s problems

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[BenClark.com] Josh just brought this to my attention, from the Onion (no link provided). So true, so true. I am that friend, as several of you will attest.

Posted at May 21, 2005 08:28 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Show them we mean business

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[Spontaneous Monotony] A call to all P2P users As of late the MPAA’s and RIAA’s of the world are claiming that we are denying them their justly earned money and are...

Posted at May 20, 2005 08:55 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Traditional media attack blogs

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[Spontaneous Monotony] A variety of traditional media sources, including the BBC have published a scare story about evil, destructive blogs that plant virii, keyloggers and...

Posted at May 17, 2005 09:47 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Go buy a quad tuner Tivo for Fall TV!

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[From the Misfiring Neurons of Chris Lim”¦.] Cause, Fall 2005 is going to be a hell of a TV ride. Ok, so there’s no such thing as a quad tuner Tivo. But trying to watch all the shows being pitched in fall is going to be tough with just a dual tuner Tivo. We have 3 and its still going to be tricky to watch 4 networks offerings.

Posted at May 16, 2005 03:20 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Have a baby, get a TiVo

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[PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviews] Women who give birth at Parkland Memorial Hospital over Mother's Dayweekend will each get a free TiVo digital video recorder - even if theydon't know what it is. Company representatives were at the hospitalFriday morning chatting up new moms and handing out certificates forthe recorders along with free lifetime TiVo service, both valued at$498. While the women seemed grateful, several patients admitted laterthat they weren't sure at first what the devices were used for.

Posted at May 14, 2005 07:59 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Mini iPod

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[From the Misfiring Neurons of Chris Lim”¦.] Yay! Tivo sent me my iPod today. I’m glad I came into work! We went to go look at a prospective phone system for work today and barely made it to my 2pm meeting. Fortunately, I did as I received my Tivo etched Mini iPod! I charged it up and synced a bunch of songs to it (about 968). So far this little thing is pretty dang impressive. I’ve always wanted a mini music player but didn’t want to plunk down $250 for it and not like it 2 days later. Now I’m surfing the web to find OEM and aftermarket gizmos for it. Found several very useful sites and some very silly ones for hacks and gadgets. I’m still looking for a something that will play the lyrics when the song is playing, a good FM broadcaster, and a simple GUI interface. Yes, I think iTunes is a little clunky. Sorry, Apple. I just need something that I can easily move songs in without the Stores and cutesy other distractions. BTW, the iTunes installer failed on my laptop. I had to end task it. But the software...

Posted at May 14, 2005 07:54 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

TiVo Now Playing dashboard widget for OS X Tiger

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[Computer Alchemy] The new version of OS X from Apple includes Dashboard, a sort of API using simple web scripting to build widgets you can manipulate on your desktop. There are hundreds of them available already to do all sorts of things, but one noteworthy new dashboard widget is the TiVo Now Playing widget.

Posted at May 14, 2005 03:19 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Ramsay on the Long Tail

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[Computer Alchemy] Given the choice, people will migrate towards a much greater variety, and the deal is you've got to make everything available to everybody so that they're not restricted. And if you do, the market for that more esoteric, more specialized stuff is just as big as the market of the mainstream stuff.

Posted at May 14, 2005 03:16 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The Grey Album

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[betED Blog] If you don’t have it yet, go grab the Grey Album. DJ Dangermouse mixed Jay Z’s Black Album with only cuts from the Beatles’ White Album. This is the hot stuff, it sounds even better than the Pharrell did producing the original. Entertainment Weekly called it the #1 Record of the Year for 2004.

Posted at May 11, 2005 10:45 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Help Kristi Win a Lunch Bet

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[Son of a Pig Farmer] My friend Kristy Duncan (aka KD) has a lunch bet with some of her Microsoft co-workers about who can get the most views of the video that the good folks at Channel 9 created highlighting her new product, MSNTV Remote Record. Scoble interviews KD and a few other Microsofters about the new feature.

Posted at May 11, 2005 10:44 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The Show About Nothing

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[Son of a Pig Farmer] One of the (many) great things about TiVo is the ability to go back to find shows I've never scene before. Now, I'm a pretty big Seinfeld fan, and I have a Season Pass for all the old shows that are in syndication. For some reason or another, they tend to always play the ones that I've already seen. Soup Nazi, The Parking Garage, The Contest, The Smelly Cars, The Puffy Shirt.

Posted at May 11, 2005 10:42 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Tivo Desktop 2.1

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[TVHarmony] Via PVRBlog, Tivo Desktop 2.1 is out and it is either good news or bad news depending on your viewpoint. The good news is that it support Microsoft Portable Media Center devices so you can transfer shows to those devices. The bad news is that it blacklists certain apps that made it easy for people to strip off the DRM encryption.

Posted at May 11, 2005 10:41 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

No more pixellated, stuttering TiVo!

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[Q Daily News] Ever since our Series2 TiVo downloaded the operating system version that allows TiVoToGo transfer of recordings, Shannon and I have suffered through possibly the worst bug I’ve experienced in my PVR lifetime — every time we changed the channel, TiVo would put us through between five and ten seconds of jumpy, pixellated video and stuttering audio. It made it so that channel browsing was completely out of the question, and every single recording would start with the tail end of the buggy behavior (since they all started with the channel being changed to the one with the program to be recorded). The various online discussion boards have been going on and on about the bug, and most users were reporting back that when they called TiVo to report the problem, they were getting either a deaf ear or an outright denial. Recently, we told some of our friends that the whole thing was bad enough to make us not want to use the TiVo anymore, and look into getting a PVR from our cable company.

Posted at May 11, 2005 10:40 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

TiVo to MPG transformations, with commentary

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[TizzyD] snarfed from andrew connell’s site…

Posted at May 11, 2005 10:39 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

RIAA TARGETS HIT BACK

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[No Rock&Roll Fun] RIAA TARGETS HIT BACK This far, most of the people targetted by the RIAA have looked at the size of the multi-headed beast attacking them and...

Posted at May 11, 2005 10:37 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Offtopic: Pot Odds Made Easy

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[betED Blog] Pot Odds Made Easy Having trouble calculating pot odds, especially in a fast moving game? Author of Poker for Dummies Lou Krieger has a great guide to...

Posted at May 11, 2005 10:29 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Not surprised

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[Record Industry Blues] The other accomplice in the music downgrade, DVD, has revolutionised the way we view entertainment. Fuelling an explosion in the sales of Dolby Digital and DTS enabled home systems, the discs also feature a myriad of bonus material and extra features that makes a CD's bonus offer - a lyric booklet or pictures of the band, maybe - just that more pathetic.

Posted at May 11, 2005 10:27 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Comcast Sued for RIAA Cooperation

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[T. Longren] That’s right. Comcast has been used for disclosing customer information to the RIAA. I’m very interested to see how this turns out. I love hearing stories where ISP’s refuse to give the RIAA or MPAA any customer information.

Posted at May 11, 2005 10:26 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

The extinction of the CD

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[MasterMaq's Blog] Yahoo 360 Page When's the last time you played music with from a CD? I don't remember the last time, to be honest. I play music from my computer almost 24/7, and when I'm out and about, I've either had my iPod or my Zen Touch.

Posted at May 11, 2005 10:25 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Goodbye CDs

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[ Vincent Brown’s Journal] Maybe you’ve read about it elsewhere, or perhaps even experienced it in your own life. The growing decline of Compact Disc usage in our lives has reached what some are calling a remarkable period. Perhaps this is the beginning of CDs truly becoming extinct, some say. Some people like Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban:

Posted at May 11, 2005 10:24 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

RIAA Toilet Paper

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[UMMO Letters] omg, I just have to plug this wonderful RIAA Toilet Paper. Wish I could buy this wholesale.

Posted at May 11, 2005 10:22 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Build Your Own DVR

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[The Wired Home Weblog - Transform your home into a digital media center - Pop Out a Baby, Get a Free TiVo!] The problem is most of them use top of the line equipment which can cost you an arm and a leg. Makezine.com has a great step-by-step tutorial that uses hardware and software you may already have. Th tutorial starts by saying:

Posted at May 10, 2005 11:49 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Scientific Atlanta Grows From DVR Sales

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[Reinvent TV] Much of the news in advertising and digital television revolves around the impact of the digital video recorder (DVR). Here is the financial report of just one (albeit a large one) manufacturer. Note that at the bottom of their quarterly statistics, SA added almost half as many DVR's as TiVo has total in non-DirectTV households!

Posted at May 10, 2005 11:49 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Automated TiVo To Go to MPEG Decrypting

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[The 8th Sign] Automated TiVo To Go to MPEG Decrypting Filed under: DVR Automated TiVo To Go to MPEG Decrypting _____________________________________ Preparatory...

Posted at May 10, 2005 11:41 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

My very own TiVo

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[regoroad.com :: Main Page] It all started when I missed an episode of Star Trek : Enterprise (I know....geek!). I was on the phone with a friend when he asked if I had watched it. After responding with a "Damn, I missed it again", he said "Why don't you just set your VCR to record it every week?" I thought, Why don't I do that? Is it because I don't own a VCR? No...it's sitting in my AV cabinet collecting dust, as it should. Is it because I'm too stupid to program it? Possibly, but i'm pretty sure I've done it before!?

Posted at May 10, 2005 11:41 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Strategies to Entice Viewers to Watch Live TV , not on DVR

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[Reinvent TV] There really is no limit to the ways one can rationalize a topic when facing an ugly reality. Take for instance an article in today's Wall Street Journal entitled Networks Take On the Time Machine. Its general premise is that some networks are working to give scheduled programs the sheen of a live sports event or one-time-only spectacular to compel viewers to watch in real time rather than recording them for later viewing.

Posted at May 10, 2005 11:40 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

mythtv .18 released!

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[ malformed.org does the blog thing] The changelog is available. Mainly bugfixes, but exciting none-the-less!

Posted at May 10, 2005 11:38 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Automated Tivo-to-Go decrypting?

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[The 8th Sign] Automated Tivo-to-Go decrypting? Filed under: DVR I may have figured out a way to automate the decrypting of TTG files using the Graphedit method...

Posted at May 10, 2005 11:37 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

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