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Saturday, Oct 24
Dealzmodo: Liquid TV TiVo Software and Tuner Card for $60
Sure, Windows 7 Media Center is included with the OS, but if you can't give up your TiVo interface, here's a cheap way to roll your own, HTPC style—$60 for Nero Liquid TV software and a tuner card. Also, the tuner can only accept clear QAM, ATSC and NTSC signals, so no premium cable. Hopefully no...
Tuesday, Sep 29
BlackBerry-Toting TiVo Addicts: You Are No Longer Without an App
TiVo's approach here is direct and clear: This is a basic scheduling app, for searching for, reading about, and marking content for recording, in situations when you can't get to a computer—though a good mobile app can keep a lot of people away of TiVo's TV interface for good. It'll work wit...
Friday, Sep 4
Dish Needs To Pay TiVo Another $200 Million
To punish Dish for not complying with an order to basically stop being a DVR service, U.S. District Judge ordered them to pay about $200 million to TiVo, whose patents were infringed. What's even funnier was that Dish had ads saying that its DVR service was "better than TiVo", an incredibly ba...
Thursday, Aug 27
TiVo Sues Verizon and AT&T [DVRs]
Dave Zatz brings to our attention details from the TiVo earnings call. First, they lost more subscribers. Secondly, they're suing Verizon and AT&T for DVR patent violation. Doesn't seem like a good...
Monday, Aug 17
i.TV iPhone App Grows a Remote Control Framework, TiVo Gives It a Whirl
This means that TiVo HD and TiVO HD XL owners will be able to use i.TV as a full remote control, replacing those serviceable but ultimately kind of lame standalone apps that they'd been stuck with up until now. While the prospect of a true all-in-one remote app is pretty exciting—though it's f...
Thursday, Jul 9
Best Buy and TiVo Tie the Knot, Insignia TVs to Get DVR Software
In marketing parlance, this is a strategic partnership by which TiVo, with the help of Best Buy store placement and aggressive advertising, will increase its market share, and Best Buy, through advertising placements in TiVo DVRs, will develop long-term relationships with its custo...
Tuesday, Apr 21
Amazon HD Video On Demand Offically on TiVo
THE FUTURE IS CRYSTAL CLEAR: HIGH DEFINITION DOWNLOADS FROM AMAZON VIDEO ON DEMAND COMING TO A TIVO DVR NEAR YOU ALVISO, Calif. – April 21, 2009 - TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced the availabili...
Tuesday, Jan 13
TiVo Gets Text Message Scheduling via kwiry
As an example, if a co-worker raves about the latest episode of a TV show, simply text “TiVo” followed by the TV program title (e.g. “TiVo the office” to kwiry’s Text Messaging shortcode, 59479 (k-w-i-r-y). kwiry automatically schedules the next episode of the show to be recorded on your TiV...
Tuesday, Jan 6
TiVo Search is The Future of TiVo
The new interface not only displays in high definition, it has a focus on finding high definition television content. TiVo search automatically recommends high definition television channels and episodes when users schedule a program to record. Additionally, users can now browse sho...
Friday, Dec 26
Hobomodo Review: I Sold My Identity for Free TiVo Cookie Cutters
Whether these hobomodos ever show up are highly questionable—so imagine my surprise when my free TiVo cookie cutters showed up just in time for the holiday baking season! The TiVo cookie cutter arrived in a plastic bag, accompanied by a recipe courtesy of TiVo.
Thursday, Dec 25
How To Set Up Your New HDTV
You've got your HDTV mounted and have a fistful of cables to plug stuff into it. Awesome. Now you need some HD content on there. Again, planning ahead goes a long way here—primarily with the cable or satellite company. Your old cable or satellite box doesn't do HD, and you're going to need a new on...
The Best Gizmodo Features of 2008
• Dash Express GPS Full Drive Review: Total Traffic Terminator [Given the company's financial troubles, I wish we hadn't recommended it without some reservations.] • Sony Trinitron Timeline Shows Why It Will Live Forever In Our Hearts
Friday, Dec 19
Blockbuster Streaming Box Review: Mediocre [2wire]
Netflix, Vudu, Unbox and Apple TV may be around, but if there's one name in rentals that can take streaming mainstream, it's Blockbuster. Unfortunately, their first attempt at a streaming media box falls short. The comparison that often came to mind is this Blockbuster 2Wire is the equiva...
Tuesday, Dec 9
Netflix Streaming Battlemodo: TiVo vs. Xbox 360
Update The Xbox 360 actually can fast forward, but not in HD titles (the ones we tested, including The Thing). SD titles seek by way of thumbnailed pictures, slightly different from the way TiVo does it. Thanks to the commenters that pointed this out. They also say that some HD content is able t...
Monday, Nov 17
TiVo Completes The Evening TV Dinner: Adds Domino's Pizza Ordering [Tivo Pizza]
LVISO, CA & ANN ARBOR, MI — November 17, 2008 — TV has never tasted this good. That’s because TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), and Domino's Pizza, Inc. (NYSE: DPZ), the recognized world leader in pizza delive...
Friday, Nov 14
10 Gadgets That Transform Your Bathroom Into a Home Office
Roto-Rooter's Pimped Out John: Last year Roto-Rooter ran a contest that rewarded the winner with the ultimate bathroom gadget setup. It came complete with an Xbox 360, 20-inch LCD TV, laptop, TiVo, refrigerator with beer tap, bike pedal exerciser and more. [Kotaku]
Friday, Oct 17
FCC Fines Big Cable for Ditching TiVo Owners
Ars reports that the FCC has bitch slapped cable companies that adopted the new switched digital video (SDV) CableCard protocol because, as we discussed in the spring, it totally left TiVo owners hanging. Cable companies say they should be free to do whatever they want with hardware; the...
Wednesday, Oct 8
Archos 5 Lightning Review
While the DVR station streamed video from Archos to TV over HDMI—and did it in good detail—it uses an S-Video input to record shows onto the unit, so they look garbled, with the wrong aspect ratio and out-of-sync sound. The TV guide itself is serviceable, though slow and unattractive when c...
Tuesday, Sep 30
Ars Technica Plays with LiquidTV/TiVo PC, Thinks It's Pretty Good
Ars got their hands on Nero's freshly-announced LiquidTV/TiVo PC team-up, and thought the TiVo software and Hauppauge TV Tuner hardware was a good experience for $200 ($100 for software only). They looked not only at how the UI functioned in the PC environment, but also at export options...
Wednesday, Sep 3
Niveus Media DVRs Will Tease Your TiVo, Take His Lunch Money
Significant upgrades across the Niveus Media Server line include: HDMI 1.3 support for high-definition audio codecs and the utmost in connectivity and new Seagate Pipeline HD™ hard drives for unprecedented acoustics, reliability, and video streaming performance.
TiVo HD XL Review: The Same Great TiVo Taste, Just More Of It
The Install: Super easy. Comcast was great about getting a guy down to our house that was experienced with CableCARD installs, and the installer (who shall remain nameless) did an excellent job getting the card in and active. It's pretty much exactly the same as the TiVo HD in terms of the ins...
TiVo HD Coming to DirecTV Next Year
TiVo and DirecTV have a chaotic history, but now that it's all straightened out, the two companies can move forward to release new hardware. Now they're planning a follow up to the HD DirecTiVo, the aging, discontinued HD TiVo platform for DirecTV that used inefficient MPEG2 encoding. Exp...
Monday, Aug 11
Olympics Watching: Ultimate PC/HDTV Strategy Guide
On the other hand, HDTV looks great and has announcers, which is crucial despite its lack of coverage and antiquated tape delay. While the streaming player is a revolutionary leap forward in terms of content, I can't help feeling that it isn't 100% ready for these Olympics, and that the gam...
Wednesday, Jul 30
TiVo De-lists Series3 Boxes From the Online Store
TiVo's removed their Series3 DVR from the main shop, leaving only the TiVo Series2 at $150 and TiVo HD at $300. What's the upshot of this? To us, it seems like they're either phasing out the Series3 entirely in favor of the cheaper-to-produce TiVo HD, or they're liquidating the units for an u...
Wednesday, Jul 23
MythTV's MyMote iPhone Remote App
The idea of controlling your DVR via your iPhone is nothing new, but this MythTV iPhone remote allows Linux DVR users to get in on the fun of using their phones as visual remotes. It's got a real-time program guide so you can easily set recordings, plus the standard channel and volume buttons...
Wednesday, Jul 9
Giz Explains: CableCARD and the Future of Cable TV
Tru2way is actually the brand name for a common Java-based middleware stack and software platform (aka OpenCable, aka OCAP) that'll be supported across the entire cable industry (all the majors like Comcast and Time Warner others are way onboard). Hardware comes into play by way of Cabl...
Thursday, Jul 3
Fantasy Gadget: The Ultimate Next Generation Connected TiVo Box
TiVo has been setting the bar for timeshifting television (what you want, when you want it) for the better part of a decade. Its latest models, the TiVo Series 3 and TiVo HD, further refine and extend functionality to high definition TV and downloadable movies. But the future might not be so b...
Friday, Jun 20
Story of a Peanut: The TiVo Remote's Untold Past, Present and Future
Future With TiVo continually adding features to their DVRs there is a growing need for a remote that will compliment new features. The TiVo design team has acknowledged this knows and Newby assures that they are are always working on improvements.
Thursday, May 29
All Things D: Tom Rogers, TiVo CEO
Rogers on the TiVo/Comcast deal's delay so far: The actual development time was 18 months, plus 10 months of prep before that. It's not the box or software, it's the infrastructure that cable has that has not proven it can support advanced operations. (What's that mean? Cable has TV and IP, w...
Tuesday, May 27
Amazon Offering Free TiVo HDs With Many TVs
Amazon is offering a free TiVo HD with select television purchases, and not just the crazy-expensive ones, either. You can pick up a 40-inch Samsung (720P, 8000:1 contrast and 2 HDMI ports) for $947.71 and score the free TiVo (which currently runs about $230 on Amazon). The offer is also good...
Wednesday, May 21
Australia Gets TiVo Minus the Subscription Fees
The Seven Media Group is so excited to distribute TiVos in Australia before the Beijing Olympics (and worried about fierce regional competition) that they're actually offering the boxes with full service sans subscription fees. If you ask the average non-TiVo user why he/she uses an al...
Thursday, May 15
TiVo Lifetime Subscriptions Have Returned
Those who hate the idea of a monthly prick on the finger compared to a one-time police baton to the groin will be pleased to know that TiVo's Product Lifetime Subscription is back. The catch? It's more expensive than it used to be...for some.
Thursday, May 1
TiVo Remote Control Over IP via Telnet
Type IRCODE in caps, followed by any of these commands. UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT SELECT TIVO LIVETV THUMBSUP THUMBSDOWN CHANNELUP CHANNELDOWN RECORD DISPLAY DIRECTV NUM0 NUM1 NUM2 NUM3 NUM4 NUM5 NUM6 NUM7 NUM8 NUM9 ENTER CLEAR PLAY PAUSE SLOW FORWARD REVERSE STANDBY NOWSHOWING REPLAY ADVANC...
Tuesday, Apr 8
TiVo Spread Internationally via Gemstar-TV Guide
TiVo has just made a patent license agreement with Gemstar-TV Guide in order for the latter to deploy TiVo service in international markets. In regular language, that means TiVo service is coming to other countries, but may be either in actual TiVo boxes or as just software in a third-part...
Thursday, Apr 3
Latest TiVo Firmware Brings Needed Speed Boost
TiVo HD is pretty awesome, but there's still a nagging issue of lag, particularly when doing more complicated things like changing Season Pass priorities. Our source at TiVo tells us that the latest firmware update, 9.3, has seriously juiced the system in terms of response time. Compared t...
Thursday, Mar 27
Notes: Gizmodo Story in Wired
BTW, this is why I love Pogue videos. Funny thing, in the story, the man who sings songs about TiVo is quoted in the story as saying that gadget bloggers have to figure out what they want to be when we grow up. For me, when I grow up, I want to do exactly what Pogue does, but I am not musically gifted. I w...
Wednesday, Mar 12
AppleTV DVR Patent Points to AppleTV 3.0 Features?
We're not sure whether this patent will actually be implemented or if it's one of those cover-our-asses sort of filings, but Apple's had a DVR-like patent in the works since at least 2006. The figures show a TiVo-ish program that records TV, but then makes the recorded files available to wa...
TiVo Getting YouTube [News]
ALVISO, Calif., March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced an agreement with YouTube(TM) that will offer access to YouTube videos directly from the TV via a TiVo DVR....
Tuesday, Mar 11
Panasonic Kills Rear Projection, Promises 2-Way CableCard By Summer
Two-way CableCards basically mean that the cable box, with all its features including VOD and PPV, is built into the TV. Right now, the CableCard in a TiVo or Media Center PC will only get you video. Panasonic will integrate OCAP into its mid-level PZ80 line, in 50" and 42" models this summer. T...
Tuesday, Jan 8
Michael Douglas Touts XStreamHD 1080p Digital Download Service, Pricing Announced
CEO George Gonzalez says his service, which could be described as a combo of a virtual satellite-delivered Blockbuster store paired up with the personal preference penchant of a TiVo, says there are no deals lined up with studios for content just yet. However, he adds that Hollywood cont...
Wednesday, Dec 12
XstreamHD Promises Full HD Movies from Satellite to Cheap Set-Top Box In Minutes
In November, we got a vague press release about XstreamHD, a new kind of satellite video service that claims it would go where DirecTV, Amazon, TiVo, Apple, and Netflix couldn't, and deliver full 1080p movies with 7.1-channel sound to the home. Well, new details have come to light that make...
Apple Takes iTunes TV to Canada
Today, TV programming from Canada and the US—plus the NHL, eh—will be available north of the border on iTunes. You lucky ducks (looneys?) get such CBC and CTV smash hits as Corner Gas and Little Mosque on the Prairie along with US programming from the likes of Comedy Central, including the s...
Sunday, Dec 9
TiVo Now With 2 Terabytes of Storage (Unofficially) [Upgrades]
TiVo chop shop WeaKnees is offering the biggest Series 3 TiVo they can muster. Cramming a 1TB drive internally along with an external 1TB eSATA, they're offering ready-to-run TiVos with a whopping 2TB of storage space, or enough for 292 hours of HD programming. But when you have enough stor...
Wednesday, Dec 5
TiVo Adds Several Thousand Music Choice Videos On Demand [TiVo]
ALVISO, Calif. - December 5, 2007-- TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), and Music Choice, the award-winning multi-platform music network, today announced the immediate availability of Music Choice on broadband...
Monday, Dec 3
Introducing Bestmodo: A List of The Gadgets I Actually Want [Bestmodo]
• TiVo HD, which has much of the capability of TiVo Series 3, at a fraction of the price. • Which HDTV do I really want? One of these: Samsung's LED Backlit 81-series LCDs, a Pioneer Kuro, or a 750-series Panasonic plasma (or last year's 700 series). But those are expensive. Maybe I'd just get a ch...
Thursday, Nov 29
Patent Office Re-Koshers TiVo's Time Warp Patent Over EchoStar [Patents]
ALVISO, CA --NOVEMBER 29th-- TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and leader in television products and services for digital video recorders (DVR), offered the following statement today on the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) decision with respect to the reexamina...
Wednesday, Nov 28
TiVo Fiddles with Nero to Build PC DVR
Why let Microsoft's Media Center PCs have all the fun? Today, TiVo announced a partnership with Nero to "develop a software solution that will bring TiVo features to the personal computer." The company claims that this is in response to the "growing PC TV tuner market," and in our opinion i...
Monday, Nov 26
Canadians Finally Get TiVo [Jesus Wept]
About TiVo Inc. TiVo, Season Pass, WishList, Series2, TiVoToGo, 'TiVo, TV your way.' and the TiVo Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of TiVo Inc. or its subsidiaries worldwide. (C) 2007 TiVo Inc. All rights reserved. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Tuesday, Nov 20
American Express My WishList Post-Black-Friday Super Deals Go Live Nov. 27 [Dealzmodo]
TiVo HD DVR with Service and Wireless Adapter WishList Price: $399 (Retail Price: $538.98) Canon HD Camcorder with 40GB HDD WishList Price: $500 (Retail Price: $1,299.99) Toshiba 10.2" Portable DVD Player WishList Price: $230 (Retail Price: $349.99)
Monday, Nov 5
Coolness Roundup: Rising Net Neutrality Tide Lifts All Gadgets [Gurus Of Cool]
When Comcast and other ripoff service providers start blocking services and lying about the word "unlimited," the Gurus of Cool get incensed. Hear their rants on episode 110 of the Coolness Roundup, along with first-hand reviews of TiVo2Go and multi-room viewing on the latest HD TiVo mo...
Thursday, Nov 1
More Sling Player Upgrades Coming [Nytimes Pulpbite]
Pogue reviews the Slingbox Solo, but the news is that the Sling Client is getting an upgrade in the shape of local pause and rewind controls. That's cool because you don't have to deal with the stream delay while trying to rewind or pause the TiVo back home remotely.
Sunday, Oct 21
Best Buy Leaks First TiVo External HDD?
Other than a 500GB capacity, a $219.99 price point, a telltale name of My Book (Western Digital) TiVo DVR Expander and an expected shipping time of 1-2weeks, there is little other information available here. What more information do you need? [Best Buy via ZNF]
Thursday, Oct 11
TiVo HD Lifetime Service Transfer: $199 For a Limited Time
This is a semi-good deal if you've already purchased a lifetime subscription on your old Series 2 units and want to upgrade to a TiVo HD. For the medium, medium price of $199, you can transfer your old sub to the new unit if and only if you purchase an HD unit between October 11 and November 8. Plus...
Monday, Oct 8
TiVo Rocks the Rhapsody Music Service
ALVISO, Calif. / SEATTLE- October 9, 2007 - TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), and RhapsodyR, the leading digital music service, today announced they have made available a transformative way for consumers to ex...
DVRs Screw Up Nielsen; Commercials Now Rated Too
2) What about the DVR providers? TiVo and the like must have ridiculous realtime information about who watches what and which commercials are funny enough to stop for. Nielsen has a pretty elaborate system that has worked for networks and advertisers for many years, but TiVo or the cable c...
Thursday, Sep 6
TiVoToGo and Multi-Room Viewing are coming ...
TiVoToGo and Multi-Room Viewing are coming to Series 3 and TiVoHD boxes in November. [TiVo Community]
Sunday, Jul 29
Six Takes on the New Tivo HD
Here's the relatively minor downside: The system lacks the premium THX audio output. It stores just 20 hours' worth of high-definition programming, compared with 32 hours on the Series3. And like all third-party Cablecard products, it cannot handle on-demand or pay-per-view programm...
Wednesday, Jun 13
Deals: Dealzmodo: TiVo Series 3 For $396
Barely beating out the previous Dealzmodo, this Buy.com deal for a Series 3 TiVo goes for $396 if you use Google Checkout, versus Amazon's $420. Of course, both deals require a $200 rebate, which might scare you off if you've been burned by rebates not arriving before. – Jason Chen
Monday, May 21
Battlemodo: CableCARD Vista Media Center PC vs. Tivo Series 3
I want to record high def cable TV, at full resolution. So there are only a few choices: TiVo Series 3, a Vista Media Center PC with Cable cards, or a rental box from the cable company. I realize that this list has a price spread of a few bucks a month to rent the cable company DVR to several thousand...
Monday, May 7
How To: DIY: TiVo Series 3 eSATA Upgrade FAQ
The guys at tivocommunity have a nice FAQ up about how to upgrade your TiVo Series 3 with an external eSATA drive. Although it's not "officially supported", with the maximum 1TB external drive in addition to the internal one, you can get a good 1.25TB chunk of space to hold all your shows.
Thursday, Apr 26
DEALS: Dealzmodo: $500 TiVo Series 3 with Free Wireless Adapter, No BS
Interested in saving $360 on a Series 3 HD TiVo? As part of their "Welcome Back" plan, you can pick up the Series 3 for $500, and they are tossing in a free wireless adapter. No rebates, no BS—you are required to sign up for any of the TiVo service plans, but you were going to do that anyway. They don...
Wednesday, Jan 31
Want a Vista CableCARD Media Center? Not So Fast
1) Pay thousands of dollars for a high end system and hope they upgrade your system afterwards. Both Niveus and Okoro have announced uber-expensive Vista systems with CableCARD support "coming sometime in the future". These have ATSC tuners for OTA tuning for now, but that was possible ba...
Monday, Oct 16
TiVo Tattles to FCC: Cable Companies Being Dicks About CableCard
But wait. While Zatz Not Funny reports Comcast balkiness with the CableCards, I had nothing but smooth sailing with Time Warner Cable, which sent over an astute technician who immediately plugged two CableCards into a TiVo Series 3 HD Multimedia Recorder, and all worked perfectly after...
Tuesday, Sep 12
Opinion: TiVo Series 3 Lifetime Subscription Transfer Go Live
You saw our TiVo Series 3 review, jumped out of your seat, and immediately went to order one—right? Well, if you've got an old Series 1 or Series 2 lifetime subscription, TiVo's transfer service is online. Starting now, you can go to TiVo's website and pay $199 to import your old subscriptio...
Monday, Sep 11
Opinion: TiVo Series3 HD Digital Media Recorder Hands-On (with Video!): Two CableCards, No Waitin'
A little bird dropped a TiVo Series3 into our laps early, just in time for the official launch, right now. The Series3 HD Digital Media Recorder is going for the sky high $799.99 we reported earlier. The good news: it may be worth it. The 720p/1080i resolution digital video recorder packs in two...
Wednesday, Aug 23
TiVo Series 3 Info on Tivo.com
TiVo.com has a page up where you can register for Tivo Series 3 updates. The page has no other forthcoming info other than that the set is HD. And that it uses CableCARD tech so it can decrypt digital TV signals from satellite and cable boxes without additional set top boxes. In otherwords, stuff...
Sunday, Aug 6
Podcast: Time Warner Cable Apologizes, Says They Will Support TiVo Series 3
Remember when Time Warner Cable in the Raleigh area said they wouldn't support TiVo Series3 units with CableCARDs? Well, it looks like they've gone back on that decision and told one of their subscribers that they will in fact support Series 3 and any other CableCARD capable devices. ...once...
Wednesday, Jul 26
Time Warner Cable Not Supporting TiVo Series3 Units With CableCard?
This bit of strange news came in via PVRBlog today. Apparently a user at Consumer Fury emailed Time Warner to see whether they will be providing Cablecard support for the upcoming TiVo Series 3 boxes. TW's answer? Time Warner Cable of Raleigh does not provide support for or allow TIVO device...
Tuesday, Feb 14
TiVo Central Online Upgraded
Maybe this website update is a signal that the pace is picking up at TiVo. The company finally showed us an HD-capable, four-tuner stand-alone DVR at CES that might even ship this year, so bring on the HD, TiVo—we're getting sick and tired of these second-rate TiVo-wannabe HD DVRs.
Wednesday, Dec 28
TiVo's Own Wireless-G Adapter
TiVo knew we'd all one day move to the land of the wireless, so the company has released its own TiVo-branded wireless-G adapter. Compatible with series 2 TiVos, this $50 USB wireless adapter is actually a decently-priced if you think about it. Microsoft is charging you $100 for an Xbox USB w...
