TiVo/PVR

Scheduling your TiVo online is a great feature, but let’s get real. The site is not the best when it comes to finding what to watch online. That’s where CosmoTV comes in. The company took a fresh visual approach and really made TV - and especially TiVo - pop online. And the tagging feature is [...]

May Wong of the AP (via KESQ) writes:
SAN JOSE, Calif. TiVo and Verizon are teaming up to allow cell phone users to remotely program television recordings.
An agreement with Verizon Wireless, to be announced tomorrow, expands on TiVo’s strategy to bring its capabilities beyond its set-top-boxes and the television.
Dubbed TiVo Mobile, it’s also the latest feature [...]

At CES 2006, TiVo announced that the high definition-capable Series 3 will be ready to ship in the second half of this year. The new TiVo unit sports a 250 GB hard drive, along with six tuners.
We got a chance to talk with TiVo about the new Series 3 unit, and captured the conversation [...]

TiVo has just announced that it has added two new formats allowing for free iPod downloads and free PSP downloads for users of their TiVoToGo service. The TiVoToGo service is a free feature provided to TiVo customers.

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
Today Iomega introduced the ScreenPlay Multimedia hard drive. It’s a USB 2.0 drive, with the capability of playing directly to your TV without a PC. It comes with a remote control, AV cable, USB cable and power adapter.
The drive is only 60GB in size, so its likely use (which is emphasized [...]

TiVo owners can now program their TiVos through Yahoo! TV’s Web interface, selecting shows for recording right from the comfort of their own computer screen.
The service is free, and anyone with a TiVo Series2 machine and a regular Yahoo! i.d. can use the service “to request, via TiVo’s scheduling technology, recordings of their favorite TV [...]

Take a look at this behemoth whenever you think technology is moving too slowly. What I didn’t realize is that the VCR dated back to the 1950’s, but sure enough, the very fist model made its debut in 1951 priced at a reasonable $50,000 with a recording time of 16 minutes per tape.
“Research on recording [...]

Tivo this week has revised their service agreement to include a $150.00 cancellation fee with their service. Not only does Tivo’s $150.00 cancellation fee apply to any new service, but users are complaining that it is also being applied to any service reactivation on a unit which they already own.

By John Tintle, Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
I ran across a program called Knoppmyth. Knoppmyth is Knoppix optimized for MythTV to make it easier for novice Linux users to install MythTV. (For those who do not know what Knoppix is, Knoppix is a bootable Live system on CD or DVD, consisting of a representative collection of GNU/Linux [...]

Dave Zatz of RealTechNews writes:
In a strange turn of events, TiVo is no longer accepting orders for DVR units via phone or Web. Unconfirmed posts suggest the company it outsources sales duties to has folded. At this time, potential Web customers are being directed to “Order at Best Buy.” Upon calling 1-877-BUY-TIVO a recording informed [...]

Dave Zatz of RealTechNews writes:
A year after announcing a partnership with Netflix, TiVo quietly updated its online account management tool this week allowing us to Enable Video Downloads.
“Use this setting to enable a DVR to download TV shows, movies, and other video content from the TiVo service over your broadband Internet connection. Specific program offerings [...]

As you all know, I love my personal video recorder (PVR), and wouldn’t be without one. While I myself have a ReplayTV, it just happens to be what we ended up with, and I would be equally happy with the functions offered by a Tivo. In fact, most of our friends have Tivos, [...]

First the good news: Hitachi has created the biggest King Kong PVR of all time (until the next guy comes along and tops it.) The bad news: they won’t be selling it in the US and Europe, because PVR demand is low.
We say: Dumb move. PVRs, like text messaging are catching on in the [...]

Now we’re talking. I have a ton of digital content that I would love to download to my TiVo (or is that upload?) and then watch on my big screen TV. Yes, I can use various solutions, but why not go straight to the system I use the most and watch my content as well [...]

Billed as “SlingBox” without the box, Orb is a new software solution that allows you to access your stored TV programs and view them remotely on your PC while traveling or at the office, or wherever.
I am not a fan of software only solutions, and in fact have been trying to buy a SlingBox all [...]

I find the tag-line “You’ve Got a Life, TiVo Gets It” deeply, deeply ironic, because anyone who is going to sign up for TiVo’s new Open Beta program most definitely does not have a life. They have TiVo. (Like me!)
If you have a TiVo (you can sort out the life business yourself later) here are [...]