It appears that since the "Broadcast Flag" was struck down, more HDTV tuner cards for PC’s will be coming to the market. These cards are useful for hobbyists who want to build an HDTV DVR, instead of waiting for TiVo/Sony/Someone to sell one. Since next year’s World Cup will be available in high definition, this […]
Now’s your chance, Ecost has 40 hour tivo’s free after $150 rebate. You can then get the lifetime registrations ($299 i think) if you’re like me and don’t like recurring bills. Or else pay $12/month. If you get one, please use this email address when registering your tivo: regis AT oscarm DOT org. Update: Sandy
Great news: The DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC can not enforce the "Broadcast Flag" that movie and television cartels want to put into future TV hardware. Basically, this little flag would tell your TiVo/Replay/VCR if it could or could not record the latest episode of American Idol or
It’s been over a week since the announced deal between Tivo and Comcast was announced. The partnership is definitely a lifeline for Tivo and hopefully the company can reinvigorate their product with innovations. Pessimists might say that is not looking very probable as it seems that the company would rather court the favor of media
I haven’t written about Tivo’s TivoToGo features, even though I got the upgrade around mid-February. My Series 2 Tivo now serves web pages wirelessly to my home network showing what files it has on its hard drive. With any machine, linux/mac/windows, I can browse their interface and download files. At first I was really excited
From PVRblog: TiVo announces new developer tools: The latest bit of information to come out is that TiVo is going to be opening up more to developers. The three new tools are TiVo Video Publisher, TiVo Multimedia Web Services API and TiVo Service Integration. Here are more details and some interesting demographics about TiVo users.
Gizmodo, Wired, and PVRBlog are reporting that TiVoToGo is now available. For now, the service is limited to copying shows from your standalone series 2 TiVo to a Windows PC. You’ll need the latest version of the TiVo Desktop software, and you’ll want to read this post from the community forums. Supposedly they’re working on
The Visionary For his birthday a couple years ago, I bit the bullet and bought Gabe a Tivo. I did this because, to a very large extent, the parameters of his life were defined by which shows came on at what times. Certainly being able to manage your stable of programs is a positive, humane
From: MercuryNews.com | 09/09/2004 | TiVo, ReplayTV agree to limits. How many people order pay-per-view, especially for movies? The last time I ordered PPV, I can barely remember. I think it was a friendly between the USA and Chile back in 1999… The new technology also will allow Hollywood movie studios and broadcasters to regulate
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