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The WeaKnees blog shares the news that TiVo has dropped the price of the TiVo HD from $299 to $249, and of the TiVo HD XL from $599 to $499, effective today. WeaKnees also has some great deals on expanded TiVo units, as well as units with backup drives so if one drive fails, your shows don't vanis...
I just got an HD tv and I have a regular old series2 Tivo. I haven't been home to check it out for myself yet (my boyfriend is hooking it up today), but I have been wondering if since my TiVo is standard def, if our live tv is going to be HD. Since TiVo records even your live shows so you can rewind and pa...
Ugh! this is what I'm worried about, as I'm considering converting my Lifetime S2 sub to HD Tivo... although I don't have HD cable sub yet... the whole Multi-cable card thingy is stressing me out...
After a brief bit of pondering and discussion, it becomes clear it is time for a dual tuner solution, which has the added benefit of moving the current TiVo to another room (after I address the drive situation) and using it there. I figure if I'm gonna open the wallet, make it worthwhile. TiVo H...
Is TiVo Desktop Plus the only program to transfer videos from my PC to my TiVo HD to watch? I really can't afford to buy the program. Any suggestions?
So...this past weekend, finding that the higher channels that are on expanded basic are now unreachable without a box; had been using direct coax from wall to TiVo to TV for my subscription S2 DT (currently have a lifetime single tuner S2 TiVo as well)
TiVo announced Wednesday that it has added hundreds of free Web videos to TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, and TiVo HD XL DVRs. Also, subscribers who are interested in watching video podcasts that they can't find through TiVo's listing can enter RSS feeds manually to watch the show on their TiVo box.
TiVo's Star Showcase Sweepstakes does not seem to be working on my HD TiVo, but it works okay on my Series 2 TiVo. Is it not available on HD TiVos?
BBC America premieres its HD programming tomorrow, with emphasis on Torchwood, Doctor Who, Being Human, and Primeval. I expect that cable providers adding it to their lineup will keep the non-HD channel available, so scheduled recordings should still go off as planned. If some compan...
Just want to share with the community - I've got a great system I just installed that lets me watch and control my Tivo from EVERY TV in my home - all without having to put a TiVo at every TV, network them all up and pay monthly for the priviledge. This unit (BOCS) actually has three inputs so I have...
I'm pretty sure I already know the answer, but there isn't any way to move the shows on a TiVo's My DVR Expander external drive to another drive, is there? I have a 500GB My DVR Expander on my main TiVo HD, and just got a 1TB drive for the other TiVo HD.
Way back before I had an HD TiVo, I remember in one of the upgrades for Series 3/HD, they added an ability to find channels by name or by call letters instead of numbers. Maybe it was just by name (like Food or HGTV) instead of channel numbers. Or maybe I just dreamed up the whole thing.
Stepping up its competition with Netflix for dominance of the online movie-rental business, Amazon on Tuesday said that it would immediately begin offering high-definition movies for rent to TiVo users who are connected to the Internet. In addition, it said, it would begin selling HD e...
TiVo has announced Stop/Watch Local, a plan to offer networks and advertisers second-by-second information about the programs and commercials being watched by users of its DVR service. Also, TiVo is unable to break down the demographics or number of people watching at a given time.
Why is this significant? Well, based on the press release I think this signals a coming push by TiVo to leverage the work done for the Comcast & Cox deployments in the US to bring the TiVo interface to an assortment of set-top boxes worldwide: “Teaming with Alticast allows global video...
Mr. Cella, age 58, currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Cella Group LLC, a firm he founded in 2008 which provides media sales representation, consultations in media, as well as sport and entertainment representation, to leading companies. Prior to that, he was...
Following up on their initial Superbowl ad results TiVo used Stop||Watch to look at the past success of this year's advertisers - and issued a press release with their analysis, of course. For example, Superbowl top-place advertiser GoDaddy.com had 35% of their primetime ads skipped dur...
Starting today there's another way to control your TiVo remotely - text message. TiVo, in partnership with kwiry, is allowing you to schedule recordings on your TiVo my texting 59479 (k-w-i-r-y) with messages such as "TiVo the office". So if you have a phone without a browser capable of usi...
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...
I love the concept of TiVo Web Video, but it feels more and more like abandonware. All the attention goes to TiVoCast where TiVo can make business deals, and TiVo Web Video just rots on the vine. I know there are third party solutions to replace TiVo Desktop, but the point is this is what most TiV...
725 WTRHD The Weather Channel HD 726 FNWHD Fox News HD 730 ANPHD Animal Planet HD 731 TLCHD The Learning Channel HD 732 FOODH Food Network HD 733 HGTHD HGTV HD 736 NGEHD National Geographic HD 767 VRSHD Versus HD 768 GLFHD Golf HD 776 DSCHD Discovery Channel HD 794 FXHD FX HD
KoldCast SciFi and Horror also has two sub-channels, TV Face and After Judgment. TiVo Central -> Video on Demand -> Browse free videos -> All -> KoldCast SciFi and Horror (BTW, TiVo has misspelled it as 'After Judgement' both online and on the TiVo interface.)
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Partnership with Nero brings TiVo to the PC viewing experience There are some other items that can be gleaned from TiVo's statement. Back in September when TiVo announced their renewed DirecTV relationship it wasn't clear just what form that relationship would take, but at the time I sai...
Louisa Hearn of the Sydney Morning Herald recently replaced her "ageing video recorder" with a brand new TiVo. And she chronicled the ups and downs of the first seven days with her new TiVo. In the end there are more ups than downs, and by the end of the week she says: Perhaps it is the "post purch...
Like Dave, I'm sure we'll see these new features added to the Series3, TiVo HD, and TiVo HD XL as well. Likely in a 9.4.x release in the coming weeks. TiVo traditionally has a fall update, and it is about that time. Although, unlike Dave, I'm not that surprised to see the S2 boxes getting an update. Wh...
TiVo Repair & Upgrade Services Make an Old TiVo Better than New; Repair or Re-gift That Old TiVo CHICAGO, IL – (November 18, 2008) – There’s new life for that old TiVo, hard drive and all, thanks to DVRupgrade’s new repair services. About DVRupgrade, Inc.
It seems Australian TiVo boxes aren't the only ones to get pizza ordering. After I posted about that I'd had a few tips that it was also coming to US TiVo units as well, so I asked TiVo about it and they confirmed it, but under embargo until now. Actually, 'now' is 08:30 Eastern when the embargo li...
iDEF, Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, 13 November 2008 - Today at the International Digital Entertainment Festival, Hybrid Television Services (ANZ) Pty Ltd, the exclusive licensee of TiVo® products in Australia and New Zealand issued an invitation to anyone interested in buildi...
Seven Network has release the first sales figures for TiVo in Australia, and since they went on sale in July about 12,000 units have been sold, according to the Australian Financial Review. Seven is also believed to be negotiating further retail deals with Bing Lee, The Good Guys, Retravi...
Last week I decided I was tired of Comcast. Fios became available in my neighborhood a few months ago and so I decided to dump Comcast (finally). A big concern of mine, however, was having to reprogram my TiVo all over again. I had a hard time with it the first time and was not looking forward to doi...
Buy.com is selling Roxio Toast 9 for just $57.99, discounted from the $99.95 MSRP. Combined with a $20 mail in rebate it is just $37.99. Roxio Toast 9 is the only application officially sanctioned by TiVo for Mac OS to handle burning TiVoToGo files to DVD.
It sounds like the focus for broadband content and services on the Australian TiVo will be advertising supported, with pay-per-view on some of the premium offerings. The ad-funded content will work much like ad-supported content on the Internet with short breaks of no more than to ads be...
The latter is due to this offering being brought to TiVo through a partnership with CinemaNow, which has digital distribution rights to Disney content. While the offering is currently limited to Disney films, the CinemaNow TiVo page has a FAQ which states: For now only Walt Disney® Studi...
Back in July TiVo emailed Series2 users who were using antenna input to give them info about the digital television transition coming in February 2009 and what they could to to continue receiving their signal. Basically add one of the TiVo-compatible digital-to-analog converter boxes...
On the plus side it has nearly all of the DVR features of a standalone TiVo. You of course get Season Passes and WishLists, but it can also record the Live TV buffer if you decide to keep a show you're watching - something Windows Media Center doesn't do. And it will auto-convert recordings to ot...
Smarthouse then goes on to talk about Nero's LiquidTV and declares it a threat to Seven's TiVo offering. But while they mention it goes on sale October 15th, they fail to mention that's only in the US, Canada, and Mexico. And really, those who will opt for an HTPC are mostly a different market f...
What does this have to do with slow CableCARD adoption? Well, these same CE vendors have held off on releasing UDCPs while they work on tru2way-enabled devices. Why invest in developing and marketing a unidirectional product when you're going to obsolete it with a two-way product in a yea...
TiVo is currently selling the Series2DT in Canada, their only remaining unit that works with an external cable box. But the S2DT is limited to SD content only. And it is only dual-tuner for analog cable channels, for any digital channels it needs the external STB and it is limited to just one c...
Alviso, CA -- September 04, 2008 – TiVo Inc., the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), announced today the launch of the TiVo® HD XL Digital Video Recorder. Available online today, the TiVo HD XL box offers more recording capacity than any other...
It has been rumored for a long, long time now that TiVo and DirecTV would reconcile and bring a new DirecTiVo to market. They'd been close partners until News Corp picked up a controlling share of DirecTV back in 2005. Shortly after that DirecTV switched their DVR technology provider from Ti...
TiVoCast Director Stephen Mack let me know via a comment that the issue where you can get stuck with a Wine Library TV TiVoCast subscription has been fixed. I've confirmed that it shows up and I was able to unsubscribe. So you can now check out Wine Library TV without fear of being trapped.
One odd thing I noticed, the listings are sorted differently on the TiVo and on the TiVoCast web page. For example, on the TiVo 'The Digg Reel' is sorted under 'T', but on the web page it is under 'D'. Similarly The Gourmet Channel is under 'T' on the TiVo and 'G' on the web. The New York Times is unde...
Anyway, to focus on today's additions, Internet Superstar is described as: Join Martin and Gator as they invite the online world's most popular, compelling and outrageous characters into the shed to swap stories about what life is like at the top of the online heap. What life is like as an I...
But I have to say, poking around and playing different videos, it looks surprisingly good on my 61" DLP. Much better than I was expecting actually, giving the normal resolution of YouTube videos. Well done TiVo. I hope they make the streaming H.264 generic so other sites can use it.
Adam, the article's author, had been using Windows Media Center so this is something he was used to there. Personally I don't think it is that useful, the title of a show is more meaningful to me than a random thumbnail image from a recording. 5. Can't check remaining hard drive space
Over at Blogcritics, Barbara Barnett has published a Technology Review of her experience using a TiVo Series3 for the past several months. She'd upgraded from the Comcast cable DVR, and as she says: I will never, ever look back. I’ve been "TiVo’d."
For Burn Notice, Oprah's Book Club, and a few other shows, at the conclusion of the show you'll see a message in the delete dialog box allowing you to purchase related products. (These are similar to existing messages in the delete dialog box.) More shows will come in the future.
Neither TiVo nor Amazon are fools, so I'm more than willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and believe that they'll do a decent job with the implementation. The real key will be how many advertisers and programming providers they can sign up to create the embedded product links. TiVo an...
Now that TiVo has support for H.264 and streaming video, I'm hopeful we'll see more features using them. Aside from the aforementioned video podcast support, TiVo could support Amazon's upcoming video streaming service, HD video downloads (most HD downloads use H.264), perhaps even str...
But that's not all, exploring the menus has revealed some additional features. First and foremost, support for the Switched Digital Video (SDV) Tuning Adapter is here! Both Motorola and Cisco/Scientific Atlanta has their TAs scheduled for certification testing by CableLabs at the en...
Tom Rogers claims that TiVo is a DVR - no longer a Digital Video Recorder, but a Digital Video Retriever. I think they should go farther. TiVo called the S3 a DMR - a Digital Media Recorder, more than just video. I say call it a Digital Media Retriever and really embrace the community. If TiVo wants...
Just a few days ago I was saying that TiVo and Comcast really needed to push out the promised update for the Comcast TiVo units to correct the numerous problems experienced by users. And it looks like they've done so, as Friday evening a Comcast Rep posted to TiVoCommunity to announce the dep...
a) I entered the TSN of a Series2 - a Pioneer DVR-810H to be precise, and... b) I don't even own a TiVo HD. I do have a TiVo Series3, but not a TiVo HD. So Series2 users who depend on antenna have two options - pick up one of the compatible converter boxes, or upgraded to the TiVo HD.
It looks like the Australian press have been getting their TiVo review units, and the reviews are starting to appear - so far, so good. One example is the review from PC Authority which gives it five out of six stars. They also put together a quick FAQ. CNET Australia also has a review up.
TiVo could really engage the development community just by making some simple interfaces on the units more open. While ReplayTV did a number of things wrong, and ended up folding, one of the things they did right was having an extensive network API. This allowed the ReplayTV users to develo...
Key components of the campaign include: Scanlan praised TiVo Inc. for being a sponsor of the STA and for helping all families identify and manage television and online media content in their homes, regardless of whether they are TiVo subscribers or not.
He seems to have laid to rest the unsubstantiated rumor that the Australian TiVo would somehow block ad skipping by saying it has fast-forward, but not a 30-second skip. However, he doesn't clarify if he tried the SPS30S 30-second skip backdoor that US TiVo units have, or was just referrin...
Seven brings the TiVo HD DVR to Australia What is TiVo? ABOUT TiVo What is TiVo? What are the TiVo features? With a TiVo DVR connected to your home network and your TiVo service activated (at tivo.com.au) you can: ABOUT the TiVo DVR and BROADBAND BUYING A TiVo DVR What is the life of TiVo DVR?
Founded in 1997, TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) pioneered a brand new category of products with the development of the first commercially available digital video recorder (DVR). Sold through leading consumer electronic retailers, TiVo has developed a brand that resonates boldly with consumer...
In essence, the digital cable feed could be connected into the PC which could be used as a personal video recorder (PVR), eliminating the need for a TiVo box. Programming could be watched on the PC, or a cable connected back to the TV to watch it there.
And the other channel is Vogue.TV, which comes, unsurprisingly, from Vogue magazine. From their FAQ: Vogue.TV allows consumers to shop the advertising pages of Vogue and watch original video programming developed with our advertisers. Users are able to browse and buy products featured i...
Well, just today I did another search for the Western Digital product, and saw that it's finally available through Amazon directly. That means I can get it with free shipping via Amazon Prime, or can pay $4 for overnight. I've got one on its way! Looking forward to hooking it to my TiVo HD, so I c...
Ads in the Tribune's Sunday product, The Guide: TV & Internet, as well as in its daily Tempo section will highlight the new capabilities available via TiVo and inform customers how they can sign up to receive TiVo and the TiVo service.
DVRupgrade posted their "Top Ten Reasons To Buy a TiVo Series3 or TiVo HD DVR", and that got me thinking about what I'd put on my list. I agree with most of their list, but not all of it. For example, I'm not a big user of TiVoToGo, in fact I hardly ever use it. While I do regularly transfer video to my T...
Wow, this is a big find. Last September TiVo and Crestron announced a partnership to enable Crestron home automation systems to control TiVo boxes over the home network. At the time I said: This is pretty cool. But it’d be even better if TiVo would publish the protocol for this IP interface so t...
However, a new article in xchange Magazine makes it sound like TiVo and WindStream are working together on a new product: While Windstream may not yet be a household name, it is quietly innovating with those that are, such as TiVo. The duo have been working on a user interface since last fall...
TiVo has just launched a new Facebook application called 'My TV'. You can add the shows you watch, rate and comment on the series or individual episodes, recommend shows to friends, schedule recordings on your TiVo (via links to TiVo Central Online), and more.
TiVo Desktop 2.6.1 has been released - and anyone running 2.6 will want to grab it. TiVoPony announced the release on TiVoCommunity: It has improved recovery from interrupted transfers between the PC and DVR, but it also provides an updated Windows Certificate for TiVo Desktop. The certific...
So I'm fine with it, and I'm hopeful that the new loyalty program will be interesting. I look forward to seeing what form the new program takes. I'm going to get my parents a TiVo, as I promised, only now I'll get them one of the new lifetime TiVo HD bundles. instead of a Series3. I might pick up a TiVo...
I am all for commerce in the TiVo interface. I'd love to see more of it. You know those History Channel shows with "Now you can buy the DVD of this program" ads? Give me the option to buy it right there from the TiVo UI. Commercials for products? Let me order them online right from the couch. Give the Q...
Reader John Barger contacted me earlier this week to tell me about his troubles with the Comcast TiVo software. His experience has been bad enough that he's asking Comcast to replace his DVRs with units running the default software, and not the TiVo interface. In John's words "It sucks, but...
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I also asked a few more questions about the new web video implementation with XMPP. After my first visit something didn't make sense to me. On the TiVo itself there will be a new TiVo Cast interface which allows you to subscribe to the 'traditional' TiVoCast content as well as the other web vid...
Now, the claim that OTA HDTV are the highest quality HD broadcasts you can get, well, that's debatable. Generally it is probably true. Most of the OTA HD channels, at least during prime time, devote the full available bandwidth to one HD signal and compression isn't very high. But many cable p...
Home Theater Magazine has an article on the TiVo Series3 in their current issue, and also available online. It is part review, part article, but nearly all positive: So there you have it. I love this DVR and I have nothing negative to say about its software, its performance or its looks. I'm jus...
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John Kohl has released the latest update to the leading TiVo HME application, Galleon 2.5.2. This is a bug fix release, as per the release notes: The open source Galleon 2.5.2 media server for TiVo is now available. Version 2.5.2: Known problems: still some layout glitches in HD
WSU Housing Services and partner Campus Televideo are offering WSU students TiVo on campus. Students who are interested will pay a discounted rate of $125 for one year of service, and will receive a free 80-hour Series2DT TiVo. The new option has been a long time in the making, said Bob Tatte...
The site with a somewhat unwieldy name My New Favorite Song Ever!com has posted a video review of the TiVo HD. What does this have to do with music? Beats me - I guess the person who runs the site just likes to branch out into tech now and then. Nothing wrong with that. It is a bit slow-paced, but quit...
I suppose it makes sense for TiVo to sponsor the site - Jon, and his guests, have certainly mentioned TiVo enough over the years. thedailyshow.com Launch Is Sponsored By AT&T, Hyundai And TiVo The launch of thedailyshow.com is sponsored by AT&T, Hyundai and TiVo.
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TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced consumers have widespread access to TiVo(R) HD, the new affordably priced high definition DVR, at retailers across the country. Now, fully stocked at leadin...
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