Mirror Mirror On The Wall Who Makes The Best Recommendations Of Them All?
When I was a kid, I grew up in middle of the sticks where my parents didn’t have access to cable TV. When satellite dishes first started to show up, my folks were early adopters and bought a ginormous...
View ArticleBack TiVo Future
You’ve got to hand it to TiVo. 10 years and 1 day after celebrating the production of the first TiVo DVR, they’ve taken a big leap ahead by adding the ability to fast forward through live TV. TiVotees...
View ArticleRevisiting Ghosts of TiVos’ Past
Photo via the Tombstone Generator Last night, I decided to do a little bit of spring cleaning with my TiVo and stumbled onto a treasure trove of memories. With the TV season starting to wind down, I...
View ArticleDish Researching Hostile TiVo Takeover?
It’s been over 5 years since TiVo filed their patent lawsuit against Dish, but we’re finally reaching the endgame of what has been an epic chess match between the two companies. Between the he...
View ArticleDoes Dish Have The Antidote?
I hate to admit it, but I’m feeling a little foolish right now. Last week, I raised the question of whether or not Dish was researching a hostile takeover of TiVo? In my article, I concluded that they...
View ArticleTiVo’s Billions: How TiVo Could Spend Their Legal Jackpot In A Single Day
During their ten year history, TiVo’s obituary has been written more times than I’ve sat through an entire commercial, yet no matter how tough the climb has been, TiVo has continued to defy critics and...
View ArticleNew Media Bounty Hunters
There’s been quite a bit written on how consumers are interacting with TiVo, but there hasn’t been a lot said about how businesses are beginning to use TiVo. Over the past few years, it’s been no...
View ArticleCut The Cable and Free Your TV
A couple of months back, I received my monthly bill from Comcast and almost had a heart attack. Over the course of one month, my bill went up over 50% and while I’ll admit to loving TV more than your...
View ArticleForget Net Neutrality, What About Media Neutrality?
Over the past five years, there’s been a lot of debate around the topic of net neutrality and while there have been a few examples where internet providers have tried to favor their own services over...
View ArticleTiVo Awarded Patent For Closed Captions On A DVR
TiVo doesn’t know whether or not their injunction against Dish’s DVR will hold up yet, but that hasn’t stopped them from adding to their patent portfolio in the meantime. In a remarkable filing with...
View ArticleTiVo Granted Patent For The Season Pass
The US patent office must have gotten their hard drives unpaused, because hot on the heels of winning a patent related to closed captions on a DVR, TiVo has been awarded another patent at the heart of...
View ArticleBest Buy Bankrolls TiVo’s Marketing
Money may not buy you love, but it can apparently buy you an exclusive for TiVo’s March 2nd secret product, according to a leaked memo from Best Buy. TiVo blogger Dave Zatz received a copy of the memo...
View ArticleComcast Raises DVR Prices For East Bay Residents Yet Again
I think that most people realize that TiVo is about 1000 times better than the DVR that you get from your cable company, yet the cable companies still continue to rent out their DVRs by the truckload....
View ArticleThe Compuservation of Television
The more things change, the more things seem to stay the same. Over the last ten years, the internet has redefined nearly every aspect of our lives. Whether it’s how we communicate with old friends,...
View ArticleTiVo Plans To Give 1 Free Month Of Hulu+ To Subscribers
I was surfing YouTube and came across an interesting ad announcing the launch of Hulu Plus on TiVo. It appears that the ad was uploaded by the agency that created it, so it’s hard to tell what this...
View ArticleProbst Tell Survivor Fans: TiVo Doesn’t Help Our Ratings
Over the years, I’ve had more than one love affair with a TV show, but no matter how much I’ve enjoyed epic hits like 24, Alias or Joey Grecco’s Cheaters, none of them have been able to generate the...
View ArticleWhy Doesn’t AMC Want My Money?
AMC Empire Originally uploaded by imoteph9 Most businesses are thrilled when someone wants to give them money, but for some crazy reason whenever you’re dealing with Hollywoodnomics, logic seems to...
View ArticleDid Motorola Get Caught With A Smoking Gun? TiVo Demands Source Code Access...
TiVo’s Motion To Compel Source Code (Above you’ll find a copy of a motion to compel that TiVo filed against Motorola on July 22nd, 2011. On July 25th, the judge in the case gave Motorola 14 days to...
View ArticleDirectTV Delays Nationwide Rollout of TiVo Until (at least) 2012
Photo by Mike Demers It’s hard to believe that it’s almost been 3 years since TiVo announced that they were rekindling their relationship with DirectTV and yet consumers are still waiting for the DVR...
View ArticleTiVo Granted Patent For Burning TV Shows To DVD
Ahh, the DVD. Love it or hate it, it’s still one of the best ways to store data. I’ve yet to meet a hard drive that can survive for 5 years without failing, but as long you’re not using them for...
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