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

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[ International Entertainment News] Comcast and TiVo Announce Strategic Partnership: This release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements relate to, among other things, the expected future deployment and availability of the TiVo service and related advertising features to Comcast customers and other matters that involve expectations or intentions. Forward- looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believe," "expect," "may," "will," "intend," "estimate," "continue," or similar expressions or the negative of those terms or expressions. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to vary materially from those expressed in or indicated by the forward-looking statements.

[–º Flat Screen Tvs - Plasma Tvs - LCD Displays and HDTV] Comcast and TiVo Announce a Strategic Partnership: TiVo has revolutionized the way consumers watch and access home entertainment. By partnering with TiVo, we are continuing to deliver technology that enables our customers to watch what they want when they want on TV. This agreement also reflects our commitment to work with leading technology providers to offer customers more value and choice in their home entertainment experience," said Brian Roberts, Chairman and CEO, Comcast Corporation. "Customers love the ease and convenience of our current DVR service, and we look forward to working with TiVo to enhance that service and offer customers the best-in-class DVR experience."

[Gigaom.com] Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » TiVo: battered, bruised and bewildered: ... But that won’t happen if TiVo looks like it’s on the rocks. ... to do the development in-house and would net them little in the way of subscriber base. ...

[Gigaom.com] Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » TiVo: battered, bruised and bewildered: ... Q4 2004 earnings report, detailing subscriber increases while incurring financial losses. ... while simultaneously suggesting ways TiVo can save itself. ...

[Engadget.com] Engadget - www.engadget.com.: Veteran journalist and Engadget correspondent J.D. Lasica cornered TiVO CEO Mike Ramsay in a hallway at the Web 2.0 conference, where the head of the pioneering digital video recorder company talked

[Adrants.com] Adrants » TiVo Subscriber Base Grows and Advertisers Notice: Tivo's Showcase area, an interactive branded entertainment area, is growing too. "We've been adding promotions almost weekly to the TiVo Showcase area," said Mike Ramsay, Tivo's chief executive. "As we near the 1 million subscriber mark, this promotions business starts to reach critical mass."

[Pvrblog.com] "Icon" ads over commercials at TiVo | PVRblog: I don't want to keep harping on this new feature, but I do want to return some nuance to this discussion by restating that I believe in all the screenshots I've seen, the ad is rough looking and obscuring too much of the screen. For the life of me, I can't figure out why TiVo would not put the ad down in a corner, perhaps taking up to 25% of the screen, wrapped around some TiVo OS chrome, so at least it looks like it should be there. The way the ads appear now, it almost looks like your TiVo has been hacked by an outsider. TiVo's UI and software engineers do some beautiful work, agonizing and testing each and every option, and customers are used to the friendly, eye-catching software, but this looks like something they were forbidden from working on.