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[ Mediacentric] Whether it’s a simple trick, like turning your TiVo into a clock, or a serious hardware hack to increase the amount of storage space in the device, we’re here with several tips, tricks, and pointers to more information, so you can get more out of your TiVo time.

Posted at June 08, 2005 12:10 PM

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[ Mediacentric] If you are a monthly TiVo subscriber, it appears that TiVo is desperate enough to keep you as a subscriber that they will lower your monthly bill by 50% if you threaten to leave due to wanting to switch to your cable providers DVR service. This will effectively drop your bill from $12 per month right down to $6.

Posted at June 08, 2005 12:08 PM

New TiVo!

[Mostly Muppet Dot Com] So what we hope will happen is this: we’ll pay the yearly fee on the refurbed TiVO - $155.40, or 12 x $12.95 - the standard price. Then, TiVo will give us $6.95 per month per TiVo for the existing units in my home.

Posted at June 08, 2005 12:07 PM

TiVo mobile video service now on Microsoft devices

[ PVR Spot: PVR news, DIY PVR, reviews, tivo, replay tv and more] TiVo has annonuced that it’s extending its TiVoToGo portable video service to pocket computers and mobile phones running Microsoft software. Reteurs reports that TiVo said TiVoToGo is now available on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Centers, as well as certain Windows Mobile-based Smartphones and PocketPCs handheld computers...

Posted at June 08, 2005 12:06 PM

Netflix & TiVo

[Simply Kimberly] TiVo subscribers will be able to visit Netflix’s Web site and either stream movies over a broadband connection or download them to their TiVo boxes…

Posted at June 06, 2005 12:40 PM

TiVo: iSee iTunes

[Simply Kimberly] A plugin exists that will allow you to control your iTunes player through TiVo. It is called iSee iTunes. It displays the following on your TiVo: 1. Album Art 2. Track Name 3. Time Played 4. Rating (editable on TiVo screen via thumbs up) 5. Artist 6. Album Name 7. Next Song In Playlist The plugin allows

Posted at June 06, 2005 12:38 PM

TiVo's Loss Narrows on Subscriber Growth

[Reinvent TV] [Source: Reinvent TV] quoted: TiVo said it had a fiscal first-quarter loss of $857,000, or 1 cent per share, compared with a loss of $9.07 million, or 11 cents per share, in the same period of 2004. Revenue for the quarter was $46.9 million, up 36% fro... [Read More]

Posted at June 04, 2005 11:35 AM

Intel And TiVo To Offer TV On Laptops

[pvrspot.com] Intel and TiVo are set to introduce a TiVo To Go program that lets consumers download television programming and wirelessly transfer it to IBM Centrino notebook computers. Users of TiVo’s personal video recorders will be able to transfer recorded television content to Centrino notebooks using pre-installed software. Notebook users will then to take the programming with them while traveling, he said. Launch is said to be in two weeks...

Posted at June 04, 2005 11:31 AM

Wireless TiVo

[Simply Kimberly] I set my TiVo up to connect to my wireless network at home last night. It is fantastic! Wireless TiVo means: 1. I can play the music on my computer on my television 2. I can view the pictures on my computer on my television 3. I can transfer TiVo recordings to my computer 4. I can burn said

Posted at June 03, 2005 09:45 AM

TiVo subscriber drive pays off

[pvrspot.com] Good news for Tivo with increased subsriber numbers after there latest membership drive. SFGate reports TiVo Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mike...

Posted at June 02, 2005 11:46 AM

Tivo v MCE

[pvrspot.com] Digital Media Hub takes an interesting look at the latest offering from Tivo and compares it with Microsofts’ MCE. I’ve been using a TiVo...

Posted at June 02, 2005 11:41 AM

TiVo not dead yet

[TizzyD] A CNN Money report notes that TiVo will look to break even this quarter, rather than post a loss of 11 cents per share. That’s significant in the PVR market, and it could suggest a resurgence of the TiVo platform. Let’s see.

Posted at June 02, 2005 11:40 AM

Tivo Beats Estimates

[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

Frustration!

[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

How would you change TiVo?

[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

[ 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

EchoStar vs. TiVo vs. EchoStar vs...

[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)

Go buy a quad tuner Tivo for Fall TV!

[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)

Mini iPod

[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 Desktop 2.1

[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)