Tag: DVR

Interesting to see this given the recent announcement that TiVo’s will be used in RCN next year, but they are downplaying it so we’ll see if there are any actual repercussions to this.   Home Media Mag “These software claims are the same that EchoStar was found to have infringed in the contempt ruling now pending on appeal,” EchoStar said […]

Ars has a nice article up about the future of multimedia entertainment. We have seen electronics perform more and more duties over the years and its all race to take control of the livingroom. Microsoft knows it, Apple knows it and even SageTV knows it. Ars profiles a couple of different companies and how they plan on winning the race […]

Support for two cable cards, expandable storage, and a lifetime subscription? Now *that* is tempting… EngadgetHD Call it a quick holiday cash-in targeted at current TiVo owners if you must, but you’re not about to kill our buzz about the fact that TiVo’s resurrecting the greatly missed Product Lifetime Service (aka lifetime subscription) for Series3 and HD owners — temporarily, […]

Finally a cable box my parents might actually be able to use. Yahoo! News After more than two years of promises and delays, Comcast Corp. has finally begun the commercial rollout of its first cable set-top boxes that run TiVo’s digital video recording technology.

TiVo is trying its best to compete with Media Centers. They just might sway a few more users if it wasn’t a long wait for each new feature to come out. Of course with the amount of time we wait for features with MS, I shouldn’t speak to loudly :). Rant aside, the new TiVo HD units can expect to […]

According to the article this will enable ViP622 MPEG4 High Definition DVR users to connect *any* USB 2.0 harddrive to their STB to expand their recording capability. Can anyone say TeraStation? There’s also some interesting info on DirectTV’s newest satalite and XM upgrading their audio quality. Multichannel Dish Network will start rolling out its long awaited “USB External Storage” solution […]

For those of you that like programming your recordings remotely, Yahoo! TV now supports the Series 3 TiVo, as well as allowing you to manage multiple TiVo devices by the DVR name you set at TiVo.com instead of numeric names. Yahoo! TV Blog * TiVo Series 2 and TiVo Series 3 receivers supported. We previously only supported Series 2 TiVo […]

Jenny says nothing about this, Mike thinks it’s long overdue and not all that exciting…unless you own one of those boxes still…then you’re probably pretty excited, huh? 😛  Gizmodo For some reason, TiVo and DirecTV are updating the older Series 2 generation DirecTiVos as part of an ongoing agreement to explore bringing "future enhancements" to DirecTV TiVo owners. The improvments […]