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101. TiVo watchers uneasy after post-Super Bowl reports | CNET News.com
- news.com.com
- Privacy concerns resurface after Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash dance prompts TiVo to show off that it can tell what viewers are watching. ...
- Get News around the Web (beta) 0 TiVo watchers uneasy after post-Super Bowl reports.
- Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash dance was shocking in more ways than one: Some TiVo users say the event brought home the realization that their beloved digital video recorders are watching them, too. ...
- On Monday, TiVo said the exposure of Jackson's breast during her halftime performance was the most-watched moment to date on its device, which, when combined with the TiVo subscription service, lets viewers pause and "rewind" live television broadcasts, among other features.
- TiVo said users had watched the skin-baring incident nearly three times more than any other moment during the Super Bowl broadcast, sparking headlines that dramatically publicized the power of the company's longstanding data-gathering practices.
- "It's just sort of creepy," longtime TiVo subscriber Sandra Munozshe wrote in an e-mail to CNET News. ...
- A TiVo spokesman said the company operates well within established privacy standards. For years, TiVo has disclosed its data-gathering practices in user agreements, saying it strips out any information that could be traced back to an individual viewer. ... context What's new: TiVo-related privacy concerns resurfaced this week after Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash dance prompted the maker of the digital video recorder to show off that it can tell what viewers are watching. ...
- Bottom line: Although TiVo has always disclosed its data-gathering practices, the new wave of complaints may indicate that it still has work to do to convince customers that it's protecting their interests.
- Although TiVo could conceivably investigate an individual's viewing habits, it doesn't, a spokesman said. ...
- The minicontroversy over privacy at TiVo underscores growing consumer awareness over industry practices that have been standard for years on the Internet but are only now beginning to spill out into other media. ...
- A full Nielsen TiVo this week signed a deal to provide data to Nielsen Media Research, a leading provider of information on television-viewing habits. Under the agreement, TiVo will supply Nielsen with anonymous data on the habits of subscribers who have agreed to hand over their information, giving Nielsen its first look at the tendencies of DVR users. Nielsen spokesman Jack Loftus said Thursday that the next deal Nielsen reaches with TiVo, or any other DVR supplier, will involve more valuable demographic information about viewers, such as age or sex.
- Lee Tien, lead staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization concerned with online privacy and other issues, gave TiVo high marks overall for guarding its customers' personal data. ...
102. TiVo killed the rerun | PVRblog
- www.pvrblog.com
- TiVo Community Forum .
- Cathy on How to setup a new TiVo without a phone .
- David on TiVo Goes After Sites Hosting Image Backups .
- Raffi Krikorian: Tivo Hacks .
- Bill Von-Hagen: Hacking the Tivo .
- Jeff Keegan: Hacking TiVo: The Expansion, Enhancement and Development Starter Kit .
- TiVo killed the rerun.
- TV execs have often claimed that TiVo had the potential to drastically alter their universe (which is automatically seen as a bad thing) and this looks like the first real change, aside from increased product placements to combat fast-fowarding through ads. ...
- It's not all TiVo's fault by any stretch, but things are definitely changing in TV land.
- TiVo Community has a nice thread on encore presentations of TV episodes within the same week. ...
- Misleading pvrblog article! TiVo plays a very small role in the new schedule changes.
- I don't understand why everyone thinks TiVo's impact is so huge. How many people really own a TiVo and use it consistently? I only know one person who owns and uses TiVo. ...
- Listed below are links to weblogs that reference TiVo killed the rerun:.
- » TiVo killed the rerun from atmaspheric | endeavors PVRblog points to an article in the LA Times on how TiVO and DVRs are changing the way Networks have to think about programming. ...
- » Less Reruns on TV from Shiny Plastic The LA Times is reporting that wider use of Tivo and other PVRs along with competition from cable is resulting in the Networks scheduling less reruns in primetime. ...
103. Which USB Network Adapters Can I Use with My Series2 DVR?
- customersupport.tivo.com
- TiVo Central Online.
- TiVo Community.
- The recommended adapters list below pertains only to compatibility with TiVo Digital Video Recorders (DVRs). ... For example, choose a wired adapter for your TiVo DVR if you have a wired network. ...
- Look at the first three digits of your DVR's 15-digit TiVo service number, and then check the list below. ...
- All TiVo Series2 DVRs can use these adapters:.
- If your TiVo service number begins with 230, 240, 264, or 275 you can also use these adapters:.
- Find it at the TiVo Store.
- For TiVo DVRs, the most current version is 4. ... If you have a new DVR, it will download the newest software version when it makes its first daily connection to the TiVo service. To find your software version, go to How Do I Find My Software Version? For information on connecting to the TiVo service, go to How Do I Connect to the TiVo Service? .
- All TiVo Series2 DVRs can use these adapters:.
- Find it at the TiVo Store.
- TiVo recommends the Linksys adapters mentioned above, however, customers have reported success with other makes and models of wireless USB network adapters, depending on which TiVo Series2 DVR they own.
- Look at the first three digits of your DVR's 15-digit TiVo service number, and then check the list below. ...
- We have had positive reports on these makes and models for all TiVo Series2 DVRs.
104. Future Of TV
- www.sgsw.com
- TiVo.
- Both ReplayTV® and TiVo® produce a new type of "digital VCR" that will make a huge difference in how easy it is to record and view television shows and sporting events. ...
- Most of the information is here on the Thoughts on ReplayTV and Thoughts on TiVo pages.
- ReplayTV's software has come a long way (better than TiVo in some areas) and I look forward to seeing the healthy competition between the TiVo technlogy and the ReplayTV technology continue.
- I don't expect the PC-based products to eliminate TiVo's or ReplayTV's markets, but if I was them, I'd be looking long and hard at a PC-based offering in addition to the dedicated hardware.
- Why TiVo? .
- Both ReplayTV and TiVo are the first wave of a new type of "VCR" that gives the television viewer new abilities to capture and manipulate the stream of television shows which flows from their cable and satellite systems (and antennas).
- TiVo, ReplayTV, DVD, and VCR's in general are *toys* (in consumer applications anyway).
- In some ways, the TiVo system now looks better to me, but that may be a "grass is greener" sort of thing. I'll be taking a look at a TiVo system in the near future as well, so hopefully then I can find out which one really fits my desires better.
- TiVo has "suggested" a few shows that I've really enjoyed and would never have bothered to hunt down myself.
- My wife has asked if I could PLAY tapes from the VCR and RECORD them into TiVo or ReplayTV because the fast-forward over commercials is really fast! I've gone back and watched things we taped before we had a PTV device and the VCR seems very clunky in comparison (Oh, that's right, I need to rewind this tape before we watch it. ...
- TiVo.
- If the HD in my ReplayTV or TiVo was full and a priority 1 show came on, it would start erasing and "taping over" any priority 10 show it had stored, then priority 9 etc.
- Shows that "TiVo" suggests are low priority and will always be deleted if something the user specified is needing to be recorded.
- As I recall, TiVo looked much less "techno-geek" friendly when I first became aware of both products in late 1998. TiVo was not planning to support "stand-alone" operation (i. ...
105. CNN.com - TiVo: Jackson stunt most replayed moment ever - Feb. 3, 2004
- www.cnn.com
- TiVo: Jackson stunt most replayed moment ever.
- TiVo Incorporated.
- LOS ANGELES, California (Hollywood Reporter) -- When Justin Timberlake tore at Janet Jackson's leather outfit during Sunday's Super Bowl half-time show, TiVo users took notice. ...
- TiVo said that particular halftime stunt was the most replayed moment not only of the Super Bowl but of all TV moments that the young company has ever measured. ...
- TiVo said it used its technology to measure audience behavior among 20,000 users during the Super Bowl. ...
- One notable TiVo user apparently unimpressed with the performance of Timberlake and Jackson was FCC chairman Michael Powell, who launched an investigation into the bare-breasted matter. Powell is so taken with TiVo that he once referred to it as "God's machine. ...
- This marks the third year that TiVo has released details of its second-by-second review of how Super Bowl viewers used their TiVo units. ...
- TiVo's top two commercials, based on user behavior, are both from Bud Light: a romantic sleigh ride interrupted by a flatulent horse and a sharp-toothed dog demonstrating his unusual way of scoring a beer for his master. ...
106. Digital Spy - Odd timings cause TiVo to issue warning in US
- www.digitalspy.co.uk
- UPDATED: Odd timings cause TiVo to issue warning in US.
- NBC's preference to start primetime programmes at peculiar times has caused PVR manufacturer TiVo to issue a scheduling warning to its subscribers. ... Therefore, TiVo issued the following warning to subscribers today:"On Thursday evening, May 13, NBC will air a special episode of Frasier followed by the series finale. ...
107. TiVo.com | What is TiVo
- www.tivo.com
- TiVo Digital Video Recorder (DVR).
- TiVo service.
- Demo TiVo.
- TiVo® is a one-of-kind service that operates a digital video recorder (DVR), which is like a VCR but with a hard drive. ... Just buy a DVR, activate TiVo service and enjoy TV your way.
- Starting as low as $129**, TiVo DVRs work with everything-from a simple TV and antenna, to cable, digital cable or satellite. ...
- The smart, automatic-recording features of the TiVo service mean you'll never miss your favorite shows again. ...
- From gift guides to product awards, feature reviews to opinion editorials, TiVo not only makes the gradeit scores high marks!.
108. ideo.com :: Our Work :: Personal video recorder
- www.ideo.com
- Project Date: 1999 Links: Visit the TiVo site .
- Personal video recorder for TiVo Remote control and set-top box .
- TiVo is the creator of personal television. The TiVo service captures television programs as they play, providing pause, rewind, instant replay, and slow-motion playback during the broadcast. ... Because of its importance to the user, IDEO and TiVo focused emphasis on the remote control, giving it a user-friendly look with its distinctive thumbs-up/thumbs-down preference buttons. ...
109. BBspot - Tivo's FutureVue+ Revolutionizes TV Viewing
- www.bbspot.com
- Tivo's FutureVue+ Revolutionizes TV Viewing.
- Alviso, CA - The Tivo FutureVue+, the latest model of digital video recorders, adds the ability to fast-forward through the television program you are watching, before the show has even aired.
- "In the past Tivo's features allowed viewers to pause what they are watching while they answer the phone, or grab a snack", said Dennis Halder, Tivo CEO. ...
- Andrew Smelder, head of Tivo's R&D department explained the system, "Simply the FutureVue+ contains a microprocessor capable of stochastic reasoning that allows it to predict the future of a program to within a small margin of error. ...
- To combat this Tivo has agreed to install 'genre locks' on the fast-forward feature.
- So far Tivo is only set to stop you fast-forwarding through live sporting events, however companies that make advertisements and infomercials are said to be in talks with Tivo.
- Watching a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode and feel the urge to see Wesley killed? Simple, just tell the Tivo FutureVue+ how you want him to die and it will slowly twist the plot in that direction. ...
- Tivo Debuts "Get-a-Life" Feature.
- Television companies have expressed concern at this feature of the Tivo, saying that it probably allows watchers to come up with better storylines than they can.
110. Wired News: Building a TiVo, a Step at a Time
- www.wired.com
- Building a TiVo, a Step at a Time .
- Forget TiVo and ReplayTV. ...
- Hacker Takes a Crack at TiVo.
- A TiVo Player for the Radio.
- TiVo Loath to Admit Ad Skip Trick.
- Thanks to several open-source projects, you can build your own digital video recorder that will blow boxes from TiVo and ReplayTV right off the shelf. ...
- Boxes from TiVo and ReplayTV offer some of the same functions, of course, but they charge extra for features like programming information, streaming music and displaying photos. ...
- "I always wanted to buy a TiVo, but I thought it would be pretty cool to build my own," said Isaac Richards, who runs MythTV, one of the most complete home-brew DVR projects. ...
- For example, Raffi Krikorian, author of a forthcoming book called TiVo Hacks, is planning to build a MythTV DVR from scratch that will record two shows at the same time, store about 250 hours of programming, play DivX movies downloaded from the Net and archive shows to video CD. ...
- Krikorian estimates the parts for the device will cost a cool $1,200 -- about three times the price of a top-end TiVo set-top box. ...
- Hacker Takes a Crack at TiVo May. 31, 2003A TiVo Player for the Radio May. ...
111. TiVo, Brother & Aspyr Announce Rendezvous Networked Products
- www.apple.com
- TiVo, Brother & Aspyr Announce Rendezvous Networked Products.
- CES, LAS VEGAS and MACWORLD EXPO, SAN FRANCISCO—January 7, 2003—The rapid adoption of Rendezvous™ continues with TiVo, Brother and Aspyr today announcing new products incorporating Rendezvous networking. ...
- “Rendezvous is enabling groundbreaking new products from companies like TiVo, Brother and Aspyr,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. ...
- “TiVo’s upcoming premium service package will use Rendezvous technology to automatically discover Macs within the home network and determine which services they provide, allowing customers to listen to their shared music or view their shared photos on their TV,” said Jim Barton, co-founder and CTO for TiVo. “We are excited about working with Apple on other ways Rendezvous can help TiVo Series2 DVRs connect to a Mac to deliver future services. ...
112. CBS News | TiVo Clones Cause Concern | April 23, 2004 18:38:11
- www.cbsnews.com
- TiVo Clones Cause Concern.
- "The cable train has left without TiVo onboard, and I don't think they're coming back for TiVo. ...
- (AP) Debra Baker tells people she has TiVo. ...
- "I thought DVR was Time Warner's name for TiVo," she said. ...
- It's a flattering curse for TiVo, whose revolutionary technology records TV programs without the hassles of videotape, letting users pause live TV, do instant replays and begin watching programs even before the recording has finished. ...
- "TiVo was the proponent of time-shifting TV and their name is synonymous with it, but everyone else in the world that puts together a set-top box is doing the same thing and that's not helping TiVo," said Mike Paxton, analyst at In-Stat/MDR. ...
- DVRs are primarily reaching the mass market through cable companies, and TiVo has yet to get its software, including its widely touted user interface, into their DVR-equipped set-top boxes. ...
- "The cable train has left without TiVo onboard, and I don't think they're coming back for TiVo," said Sean Badding, an analyst with The Carmel Group. ...
- TiVo's code also is missing from Panasonic's combination DVD Recorder-DVR and Mitsubishi's upcoming HDTV receiver with a 120-gigabyte DVR. Sharp is building DVR capabilities directly into some of its LCD TVs, again without TiVo. ...
- households with DVRs had TiVo's software and services, according to Forrester Research. More than half of that comes though TiVo's partnership with DirecTV, which has been offering DVR services with its satellite offerings for years. ...
- But as DVRs gain in popularity - Forrester predicts nearly half of American households will have a DVR by 2009 - TiVo may be hard-pressed to hold on to its leading market share. ...
- "If Time Warner hadn't come out with a DVR, I would have considered a TiVo by now," said Robert Meyer, a 42-year-old finance portfolio manager from New York. ...
- Comcast did a brief test with TiVo in 2000 and remains "in touch with TiVo, but there's nothing specific beyond that," Watson said. ...
- TiVo, based in Alviso, Calif. , has knocked on the cable industry's doors for years - and admittedly changed its take-my-TiVo approach to a more flexible tactic of designing its software around the cable industry's needs. ...
113. Forbes.com: Tivo at crossroads, needs cable partner-analysts
- www.forbes.com
- TIVO.
- Tivo at crossroads, needs cable partner-analysts.
- NEW YORK, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Tivo, the television recording technology company, needs to find a partner in the cable TV market or face falling from its status as a hip innovator to being a small niche player, analysts said.
- The San Jose, California-based Tivo makes systems that allow users to personalize TV programs recorded to a set-top box with a built-in hard drive. ...
- Tivo recently hit one million subscribers for its digital video recorder (DVR) systems. ...
- Analysts expect Tivo to shrink its loss to 16 cents a share from a loss of 23 cents last year, on higher revenues, when it reports fiscal third quarter results on Thursday. ...
- But Tivo is at a crucial crossroads, analysts said. As people begin to buy Tivo-like services that allow them to pause and rewind live TV from cable companies, Tivo needs to make good on its growth plan by providing its technology to more media outlets.
- Tivo has said it is trying to reach a deal with cable companies for set top boxes that include its DVR technology, but so far no deals have been announced.
- The danger, Forrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff says, is that Tivo could end up like Apple Computer Inc. ...
- "Tivo definitely are pioneers, but it would not surprise me if 5 years from now the percentage of personal video recorders that are branded Tivo are a minority compared to more generic cable and satellite boxes," he said.
- The company believes it has a plan to help cable companies to reduce their costs by using Tivo technology, analysts have said.
- "(Tivo also) believes that they can enable them to offer a wider array of services and to share in new revenue streams," said Daniel Ernst, an analyst at Rodman & Renshaw.
- A Tivo spokesman told Reuters that while talks with cable companies continue, it remains confident that robust growth can be found in satellite TV partner DirecTV, a division of Hughes Electronics Corp. (nyse: GMH - news - people), and in standalone Tivo-powered boxes licensed to consumer electronics makers such as Sony Corp. ...
- But cable companies so far have shied away from Tivo, choosing to bankroll digital services such as video-on-demand. ...
114. Apple - Downloads - Internet Utilities - Tivo Desktop 1.8
- www.apple.com
- Tivo Desktop.
- About TiVo Desktop.
- Any other system with access to your network a computer, a TiVo DVR, etc. ...
- Tivo.
- A networked TiVo Series2 DVR with the TiVo Home Media Option premium feature package.
- Home > Mac OS X > Downloads > Internet Utilities > Tivo Desktop 1. ...
115. DealDatabase Forum - Deals, Freebies, and TiVo & DirecTivo Hacking - powered by vBulletin
- www.dealdatabase.com
- DealDatabase Forum - Deals, Freebies, and TiVo & DirecTivo Hacking .
- Welcome to the DealDatabase Forum - Deals, Freebies, and TiVo & DirecTivo Hacking.
- Category: NEW TiVo, DTiVo, Extraction FORUMS! .
- FILES - All TiVo & DTiVo Files Dedicated to a clean and concise listing of the most current versions of all the hacks out there. ...
- New Software - Control TiVo. ...
- Newbie Tivo (7 Viewing) If you just got your tivo, or are new to tivo hacking, your question definitely belongs here. ...
- Series 1 Support (14 Viewing) If your tivo does not have a USB port on the back, then this is the place for support. ... This includes both DirectTiVos & standalone TiVo. ...
- Series 2 Support (19 Viewing) If your tivo has a USB port on the back, then this is the place for support. ... This includes both DirecTiVos (Directv TiVo combo units) and standalone TiVo units. ...
- Extraction, Insertion, & Streaming Support (23 Viewing) Any support related questions for pulling shows off the tivo, putting them back on, streaming them to your PC, or general manipulation. ...
- Broken TiVos (Hardware Problems & Troubleshooting) (2 Viewing) If your tivo won't boot at all, has bad tuners, or any other problems that are probably hardware related, post them here. ...
- Extraction, Insertion, & Streaming Development (5 Viewing) Technical discussion and development for pulling shows off the tivo, putting them back on, streaming them to your PC, or general manipulation. ...
- New Software - Control TiVo. ...
- General TiVo Development (5 Viewing) Technical discussion and development for cross platform or general hacks. ...
- General TiVo Discussions (7 Viewing) General TiVo discussions about any TiVo subject!! NO DTV HACKING TALK ALLOWED!! .
116. Digital recording pioneer faces fight of its life as market explodes
- www.nyjournalnews.com
- Debra Baker tells people she has TiVo. ...
- "I thought DVR was Time Warner's name for TiVo," she said. ...
- It's a flattering curse for TiVo, whose revolutionary technology records TV programs without the hassles of videotape, letting users pause live TV, do instant replays and begin watching programs even before the recording has finished. ...
- "TiVo was the proponent of time-shifting TV and their name is synonymous with it, but everyone else in the world that puts together a set-top box is doing the same thing and that's not helping TiVo," said Mike Paxton, analyst at In-Stat/MDR. ...
- DVRs are primarily reaching the mass market through cable companies, and TiVo has yet to get its software, including its widely touted user interface, into their DVR-equipped set-top boxes. ...
- "The cable train has left without TiVo onboard, and I don't think they're coming back for TiVo," said Sean Badding, an analyst with The Carmel Group. ...
- A Cablevision spokesman would not comment on the upcoming competition between its DVRs and TiVo. ...
- TiVo's code also is missing from Panasonic's combination DVD Recorder-DVR and Mitsubishi's upcoming HDTV receiver with a 120-gigabyte DVR. Sharp is building DVR capabilities directly into some of its LCD TVs, again without TiVo. ...
- households with DVRs had TiVo's software and services, according to Forrester Research. More than half of that comes through TiVo's partnership with DirecTV, which has been offering DVR services with its satellite offerings for years. ...
- But as DVRs gain in popularity Forrester predicts nearly half of American households will have a DVR by 2009 TiVo may be hard-pressed to hold on to its leading market share. ...
- "If Time Warner hadn't come out with a DVR, I would have considered a TiVo by now," said Robert Meyer, a 42-year-old finance portfolio manager from New York. ...
- Comcast did a brief test with TiVo in 2000 and remains "in touch with TiVo, but there's nothing specific beyond that," Watson said. ...
- TiVo, based in Alviso, Calif. , has knocked on the cable industry's doors for years and admittedly changed its take-my-TiVo approach to a more flexible tactic of designing its software around the cable industry's needs. ...
117. TiVo to Sell User Viewing Data | Metafilter
- www.metafilter.com
- TiVo to Sell User Viewing Data TiVo executives said they will be gathering information only in aggregate, such as by ZIP code and that the habits of individual users will remain anonymous. However, not everyone agrees that TiVo can't/isn't tracking individual viewing habits. ...
- Given the choice between tivo doing this and me not using my Tivo any more, I'll put up with it. I'd prefer if they didn't, but only slightly, whereas I would be tremendously upset to no longer have my TiVo, whose features are so addictive I have trouble watching TV on other televisions.
- Does the TiVo somehow help you figure out where the commercials are? Or is the "skip" feature akin to recording shows on a VCR and just fast-forwarding through the commercials? Is it as simple as a button that fast-forwards 30 seconds? Is the TiVo just massively more easy to program than a VCR? What is it that's so threatening to TV advertisers?.
- I dunno how TiVo's works, but ReplayTV's Commercial Advance skips the entire block when it works properly (when it doesn't, it skips anywhere from 5-20 minutes of a show). ...
- TiVo has a 3 stage fast forward button. ... Not that big a deal except that for TiVo users are basically recording every show before watching them, so they do the same things you might do with a VCR but they do it with nearly every show they watch. What we need now are some of those TiVo hacker/programmer gods to figure out some way to have the TiVo do random stuff while you aren't watching/recording anything to introduce noise into the data. ... I know I can now stream them off my computer, but I don't want to have to have my computer on all the time -- especially since the TiVo is already on all the time.
- Apparently you can opt out by calling customer service at 877-for-tivo (877-367-8486). ...
- I've always thought that once TiVo grows beyond the geek chic set, it could rival the Neilsen Ratings and actually offer much more granular data to networks and advertisers. ... If you were Pepsi and you had an ad during that show, you might want TiVo to give you data on all your commercials, so you could figure out how many TiVo owners that watched Friends watched your commercial at normal speed. ... I could someday see TiVo paying users to opt-in to more data, maybe even waiving the monthly fee if you agreed to give them more demographics. ...
- With the tivo, almost everything I watch is recorded. ... Is the TiVo just massively more easy to program than a VCR? Well, yes. ...
118. GearBits: Doubts about HD TiVo
- www.gearbits.com
- Doubts about HD TiVo.
- Being able to record shows on a digital video recorder (DVR) like our TiVo is just bliss. ... However, there are some limitations to the current TiVo product, including no tuning of digital cable signals and no recording of HDTV content.
- The announcement of DirecTV's HD tuner/DVR with TiVo at CES was a big break-through. Finally, folks will be able to record HD signals onto a TiVo-type device. ...
- That basic box is what I want to see TiVo produce, but it isn't likely to happen any time soon for a couple of reasons.
- First, tuning ATSC (over-the-air digital programming) and over-the-air HD would fairly easy for a TiVo unit to do, but the number of people who rely on OTA signals for their HD content is pretty small. ... Instead, TiVo would have to produce a box that can either tune/record satellite broadcasted content or tune/record QAM (cable) content. ...
- Partnering, such as what TiVo has done with DirecTV, will be necessary. But, it does not appear that TiVo has had much success so far partnering with any cable TV companies (e. ... TiVo, in comparison, puts loads of work into enhancing the user interface and the whole user experience. ...
- So the upshot is that I doubt that we'll see a cable-compatible or "general-purpose" HD TiVo outside of DirecTV's unit any time in the next few years. In the meantime, I hope that Scientific Atlanta will license TiVo's interface so we can have the best of both worlds.
- Admittedly, I have done ZERO research on this because I'm a very happy DirecTV customer, but isn't the CABLE CARD standard supposed to handle this? Wasn't this a mandate to the cable companies and consumer electronics manufacturers to include integrated cable tuners into HDTV monitors? If that's the case, then TiVo should be right on that same bandwagon and be able to leverage their superior UI and brand name to spank the competition. ... The problem is SA, Motorola, and the other competitors are putting out cheaper versions and could commoditize the market so fast TiVo never profits from their innovations. ...
- I could envision a world where TiVo comes out with a 2 tuner STB with CABLE CARD integrated with the world-famous TiVo interface. ... The bummer is that the broadcast flag rulings force TiVo to put "reasonable" controls against "hacking" because TiVo (or TiVo hackers) would be happy to spin up a little webserver on that unit and let you stream TV from the TiVo to any display on your network, but that's a whole other discussion! ;-).
119. TiVo - a whatis definition
- www.whatis.com
- TiVo.
- TiVo is a company offering a branded subscription-based interactive television service that lets viewers program and control which television shows they watch, and when. TiVo requires the purchase of a personal digital video receiver and a subscription to TiVo Personal TV service. ...
- TiVo also is equipped with memory to remember a user's favorite television show and automatically make a digital recording of the program each time it airs. TiVo's digital recorder stores up to 30 hours of TV programming. ...
- An article in ZDNet provides a detailed comparison of TiVo and UltimateTV. ...
120. adot's notblog*: tivo for radio?
- weblogs.mozillazine.org
- tivo for radio?.
- No matter how smooth the drive, I'm always focused primarily on driving -- 2,800 pounds traveling at 90 miles per hour is just a lotta force -- and so I inevitably miss or mis-hear some comment and my immediate, almost unconscious, TiVo-trained, response is to think "rewind".
- What I really want is a TiVo-like device for my car radio. It doesn't have to have all the TiVo features, just a simple 10-30 minute buffer with pause and rewind would be fine.
- I remember there were many times when I got into the car and turned on the radio half way through a song and wanted to hear the whole thing, or missing the name of the artist or album which might have turned into a CD sale if I'd have had a radio with TiVo capabilities. ...
- TiVo, itself, will soon offer XM radio -- but, again, that's not in my car. ...
121. TiVo Changed my Life
- radio.weblogs.com
- TiVo Upgrades?.
- TiVo Changed my Life .
- Act I - learning about TiVo.
- My friend, David Messina, has been bothering my about how great TiVo is and how it changed his life. He seems to think that a gadget-freak like me would immediately grasp how revolutionary TiVo is. ...
- Act II - buying a TiVo.
- Set up is easy because a cute little TiVo character appears on the TV screen and tells you what to do at every step of the way. ...
- You'll find yourself quickly setting TiVo to record not only the upcoming episode of Survivor 17 - Mission to Mars, but every episode of the season (you just select the Season Pass option).
- Because TiVo is always recording and keeps a 30 minute buffer of recorded material, you just have to scroll back to the beginning of the show and watch it. ...
- After a few weeks TiVo knows that you like to watch shows about computers and golf so it starts to record shows with those topics even if you haven't told it to. ... Oh, but what if TiVo uses up your hard drive space by recording something it thinks you want to watch and, as a result, misses something that you have specifically told it to record? Well, that doesn't happen. TiVo only suggests things when there is extra space available.
- And what about regular old live TV watching? Yeah, you still do some of that with a TiVO. ... Well, with TiVo you can pause the TV and listen to your mom's story, and offer some platitudes and then return to the more coherent drama unfolding on your TV set. ...
- Unless you have a TiVo. ...
- But you don't have to buy a TiVo to get this same level of Nirvana. ...
122. Home Media Option (HMO) for DirecTV Receivers with TiVo Petition
- www.petitiononline.com
- Home Media Option (HMO) for DirecTV Receivers with TiVo .
- We, the undersigned, ask that DirecTV allow and implement the Home Media Option (HMO) software upgrade for existing and future owners of DirecTV PVRs that support the TiVo service. ...
- The Home Media Option (HMO) for DirecTV Receivers with TiVo Petition to DirecTV Senior Vice President of Advanced Products and New Media, Bradley Beale was created by members of the Tivo Community and Avs Forum and written by Robert Williams. ...
123. Forbes.com: TiVo Sales Remain Tepid Despite Fanatic Fans
- www.forbes.com
- TiVo Sales Remain Tepid Despite Fanatic Fans .
- On a recent episode of "Sex and the City," Miranda, the lonely single mother, was hurled into an emotional crisis when her TiVo went on the fritz. ... " Even Oprah has joined the TiVo chorus. ...
- So how, in the face of this evangelistic onslaught, can so many of the rest of us remain so TiVo-ambivalent? Even the experts are befuddled. ...
- Currently, TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people ), which hit the market more than four years ago, serves fewer than 800,000 subscribers. Only about 1% of America's households employ TiVo or similar digital video-recording products, according to the Consumer Electronic Association. ...
- TiVo advocates say that TiVo's technology promises a similar, even more dramatic leap, one that will revolutionize the way people watch television. ...
- Not only do TiVo and similar products record and index a viewer's favorite programs on a hard disk (no cassettes necessary), it scans the airwaves for other programs that seem to fit particular tastes and puts them at the viewer's disposal. ...
- NBC recently announced plans to air 30-second "minimovies" during commercial breaks in hopes of keeping viewers from using their remotes or devices like TiVo to avoid advertisements. ...
- Despite all this, consumers just aren't rushing to buy TiVo. The tepid sales have even prompted technology writer Brendan Koerner to declare in Slate magazine last year that TiVo was "destined for the ash heap of history," condemned to fail by what the writer called "first-mover disadvantage. ...
- TiVo marketers, Koerner argued, needed to counteract the "first-mover" disadvantage by providing the right pitch for the average clerk at Best Buy (nyse: BBY - news - people ), and they haven't done it. How exactly is TiVo different from a VCR? Well, it is different, but the explanation isn't a simple one. ...
- And compared with a VCR or DVD player, a TiVo is difficult to set up and maintain. ...
- Other analysts see TiVo's future in less bleak terms. ... The cost of the TiVo box itself has dropped to about $250. ...
124. TiVo's New Product, New Challenges - OSNews.com
- www.osnews.com
- TiVo's New Product, New Challenges.
- TiVo finally launched its High Definition-capable unit. Designed by TiVo for DirecTV, it sports a 250 GB Hard drive and four tuners for $999. But neat new products aside, TiVo faces some daunting challenges. It has not made inroads with cable companies, many of whom have commissioned cheap TiVo knock-offs from companies like Scientific Atlanta. ...
125. YAC: Yet Another Caller ID Program
- www.sunflowerhead.com
- Currently, there are listeners for Windows and the TiVo Personal Video Recorder, with several others under development.
- See an image of the YAC listener for TiVo displaying Caller ID information on a TV.
- If you have other computers or a TiVo which you want to use to "listen" to YAC information, you can download that software as well. ...
- YAC for TiVo.
- YAC for TiVo Readme.
- YAC Listener for TiVo: TiVo, DirecTivo or Tivo Series 2 and a network connection. ...
- Option 1 (best): Post a message at the TiVo Community Forum Underground. ...
- 15-src-tivo. zip (TiVo).
- TiVo Source Readme.
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