Friends finale and NBC Tivo-b0rking -- TiVo Strikes Back

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Tiger and TiVo are friends again

Tiger and TiVo are friends again 06/17/2005 07:18 PM

I posted this on PVRblog but it's worth repeating here for my TiVo/mac owning friends that might have seen it: if you upgrade to Tiger and you lost your TiVo music and photo sharing, someone has come to the rescue and released a TiVo desktop app that works.

TiVo Tying TV To The Net Looking to tie
television to the Internet, digital
video recording makers TiVo on Jun

TiVo Tying TV To The Net Looking to tie
television to the Internet, digital
video recording makers TiVo on Jun 06/10/2004 10:28 PM
AVN Online Jun 11 2004 2:45AM GMT

TiVo users not happy TiVo is spying on
them

TiVo users not happy TiVo is spying on
them 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
Well TiVo's boosting that it Janet Jacksons Garment malfunction was the single highest re-watched event has many TiVo users asking...

TIVO Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo
Owners?

TIVO Bug Shuts Out Many Series 1 TiVo
Owners? 07/26/2004 05:24 PM

TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases

TiVo.com | TiVo Press Releases 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
bang for the buck .. extension .. TivoToGo

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Intel and Tivo Team Up on Tivo-to-Go
(But How?)

Intel and Tivo Team Up on Tivo-to-Go
(But How?) 06/06/2005 12:09 AM

Reuters is running a story about Intel that is chocked full of goo info, including information that their 'Manitoba' mobile chipset has finally found a customer in mmO2 Pic (the Manitoba came out two years ago, to little fanfare, let alone actual adoption by phone manufacturers). But the big news is that Intel will be working with Tivo to provide Tivo-to-Go functionality in future laptop chipsets, like their popular Centrino.

What that is, though, is unclear. Is it just a branding initiative? Tivo-to-Go already works on laptops (that's half the point), so will it be some sort of native support that makes it easier to move the Tivo content around? We don't know—the article is very vague—but at least Tivo is getting some name dropping love from a mega-vendor (considering it was unlikely they were going to get much help from Microsoft, considering they sell a competing product to Windows XP Media Center). (Thanks, Pat!)

UPDATE 1-Intel's cell communications chip finds a customer [Reuters]

MP3 Request: "Tivo, My Tivo"

MP3 Request: "Tivo, My Tivo" 06/08/2004 09:07 AM

Does anyone have an MP3 of the song "Tivo, My Tivo" from the off-Broadway [hit | miss] The Gayest Straight Man Alive? Because I'd really like to hear it. Also, could someone explain what "surprisingly straight" means? Is that, like, no dicks at all? Not even your own? (Thanks, Peter, for the "tip.")
Read [NYTheatre]

Update: While I'm exploiting the good humor of our readers, do any of you 1) live in Canberra, Australia, and 2) take PayPal? I need to get a few cases of VB delivered to some game developers and am having a surprisingly hard time of it.

Millions to watch Friends finale

Millions to watch Friends finale 05/06/2004 11:40 AM
Millions of fans of US TV comedy Friends are awaiting the show's emotional finale on Thursday.

Friends finale draws record 8.6m

Friends finale draws record 8.6m 05/29/2004 06:37 AM
The last episode of long-running sitcom Friends is seen by a record 8.6 million audience, Channel 4 says.

Who doesn't like TiVo?

Who doesn't like TiVo? 04/09/2004 04:11 PM
The NY Times ran another of those fawning TiVo articles yesterday about how everyone who has one loves it like a member of the family. An excerpt: Mr. Smith has since replaced his older TiVo model with three ReplayTV units. The new units allow him to stream programs from one to the other. After recording a program in his darkened home theater room, he transfers it to his brighter living... (with comments)

RSS and TiVo

RSS and TiVo 04/09/2004 03:56 PM
Yesterday's item provoked a flurry of responses. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, who wrote the Washington Post story I dissected, points out that the nature of his assignment precluded broader coverage, and that he'd otherwise gladly have included bloglines. There's been lots of chatter about bloglines lately -- Chad Dickerson mentions it today -- so I was interested to hear from Martin Thornell about another web-based product, Rocket RSS reader. Doubtless there are others too. An implementation of one of these licensed for behind-the-firewall use, as Chad suggests, would be handy. As a matter of fact, that's how I use Radio UserLand's reader. It's nominally a desktop product, but I run it as a server and authenticate to it over SSL. ...

How TiVo May Help The Web

How TiVo May Help The Web 04/26/2004 04:07 PM
Web advertising is making a big comeback just as TV advertising may be losing steam. These two things may not be a coincidence, as a new study suggests that advertisers are looking to move their advertising dollars to the web, as they fear the impact of TiVo-like devices on their television commercial spots. Of course, if advertisers (as they're likely to do) insist on creating more annoying and intrusive ads online this plan will backfire. However, they should look on this as an opportunity. Smart advertising (not intrusive, not annoying) that actually gives people something they want will be a lot more cost effective than blind TV advertising where you hope people are paying attention.

TiVo Here, There - TiVo Everywhere

TiVo Here, There - TiVo Everywhere 01/27/2004 08:39 PM
Los Angeles Times Jan 28 2004 1:03AM GMT

Men Want TiVo™ More

Men Want TiVo™ More 08/09/2004 02:38 AM
Male heads-of-household are more likely than their female counterparts to buy a personal video recorder (PVR) over the next year, according to the upcoming report Video-on-Demand and PVR: Analysis and Forecast from Parks Associates. In a recent survey, 21% of male heads-of household said they are likely to purchase a PVR in the next 12 months, compared with just 16% of female heads-of-household. [PRWEB Aug 9, 2004]

The Little TiVo That Could

The Little TiVo That Could 06/10/2004 09:27 AM
Despite the unpleasant questions, TiVo keeps chugging along.

TiVo And The Mac

TiVo And The Mac 08/30/2004 11:58 AM
For some things, the Mac doesn't "just work". Windows might be buggy malware-infested crapware that is impossible for me to depend on for a living, but when it comes to things that make the RIAA and MPAA twitch reflexively, buggy and filled with an infinite number of teenage monkey hackers beats stale and used by crusty old farts like myself. By Nathan Torkington, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

Pop-up TiVo

Pop-up TiVo 03/29/2005 03:08 PM
One of the joys of TiVo ownership is skipping commercials. Will the DVR company's new attempt to cater to advertisers fly with its fans?

TiVo Is On the Go

TiVo Is On the Go 01/03/2005 02:06 PM
Can TiVo stomp the competition?

Tony Bounces Back in 'Sopranos' Finale
(AP)

Tony Bounces Back in 'Sopranos' Finale
(AP) 06/06/2004 11:36 PM
AP - The somber fifth-season finale of "The Sopranos" aired Sunday night on HBO. Much of the episode, co-written by "Sopranos" creator David Chase, found crisis-beset Tony Soprano increasingly helpless as his life's work, and his life, unraveled.

Will Google Buy TiVo?

Will Google Buy TiVo? 04/19/2005 09:04 AM
Google and Yahoo! may be trying to warm up TiVo with their big dreams and even bigger screens.

TiVo vs.Ti-faux

TiVo vs.Ti-faux 04/23/2004 11:12 PM
USA Today Apr 24 2004 3:06AM GMT

TiVo Hacks Put to Bed

TiVo Hacks Put to Bed 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
My month of a thousand hacks ended this morning as I put TiVo Hacks to bed (read: sent it to production).

Raffi, my young TiVo Jedi friend, good on you, mate! I've learned more about my TiVo over the past month than I'd ever wanted to. Now where'd I put that screwdriver...

The book will be in brick-and-mortar bookstore shelves sometime in August, but you can of course pre-order it from Amazon.

NBC tries to outsmart TiVo

NBC tries to outsmart TiVo 05/06/2004 07:00 PM
Glenn Fleishman says:

NBC has scheduled the final broadcast of Friends to start tonight at 8.59 p.m. Why? To beat TiVo recording, obviously. I'm not sure if they don't want us to watch the penultimate episode of Survivor: All-Stars (confession: I'm addicted). But it's clear that starting it a minute early is intended to disrupt digital recording of shows that run 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. The fix is simple. On my ReplayTV, I just set a manual record from 9:00 to 10:00 for NBC (or I could set an 8:00 to 8:59 Survivors recording). But it's clear that this is a direct DVR pushback. But how does this help the network? I link to a post about Fear Factor in which the thread explores on a discussion board why Fear Factor was getting chopped or not recording.

Link

tivo my life please......

tivo my life please...... 01/05/2004 04:13 PM
Today is the first day of the rest of my ORGANIZED life! Well ok that just may be stretching it...

Beyond TiVo: The Next Generation (Of
Ads)

Beyond TiVo: The Next Generation (Of
Ads) 05/26/2004 01:35 PM
Just as TiVo gets users to (sort of) see more commercials, the next generation of PVRs is planning a new form of advertising and deliver more targeted marketing (and maybe even more ads). Forget about all this skipping 30 seconds stuff, no one will be able to avoid the video-on-demand menus covered in targeted ads. But before the anti-ad folks have a fit, this might actually mean the ads you see are the ads you don't mind seeing.

TiVo-To-Go initiative

TiVo-To-Go initiative 01/03/2005 09:45 PM
TechSpot Jan 4 2005 12:32AM GMT

Using TiVo To Get Around The Rules

Using TiVo To Get Around The Rules 04/22/2004 08:00 PM
While this article is focused on things in the UK, the idea equally applies here in the US where the FCC has suddenly gone on high alert trying to "clean up" the airwaves. The idea is that if broadcast companies started sending additional content to TiVo or TiVo-like PVR devices that could fit around the show, but never actually be broadcast on television, there's no reason that that the additional content needs to abide by regulations. So, in the article linked here, it talks about advertisements for beer and cars that don't need to meet specific (very strict) advertising laws in the UK. In the US, you could (in theory) include additional "too hot for broadcast TV" content that could easily be slotted in to programs viewed on a PVR. Of course, as with any kind of loophole, it's only a matter of time before lawmakers with too much time on their hands decide to close it.

TiVO alternatives

TiVO alternatives 06/09/2004 12:34 PM
Step aside TiVo, here comes Freevo.

Reuters catches up with the homebrew PVR revolution with today's article "Step aside TiVo, here comes Freevo." It's a new overview of the home PC-based options, including Freevo, MythTV, Snapstream's BeyondTV, and Microsoft's Media Center. It also mentions the the Build Your Own PVR website.

Personally, although I've heard good things about MythTV and Freevo, unless you're fairly familiar with building your own PCs from scratch and running command-line tools, Snapstream's BeyondTV is the easiest way to dip your toe into the homebrew PVR pool. Microsoft's version is a non-option, as it can only be legally obtained when buying a new home theater PC, which typically runs $1200-1600. [PVRblog]

PVRBlog is quickly becomning one of my favorite sources.  Keep up the great work dudes!

TiVo filed with the FCC

TiVo filed with the FCC 07/29/2004 10:29 PM
TiVo filed with the FCC to have their TiVoGuard DRM system approved so that it can touch broadcast-flagged content. My first impression of the system is that it must have cost a fortune to design and implement. But the MPAA isn't even satisfied; they demand even more control and complexity even though it won't make a dent in unauthorized copying. How many tens of millions of dollars will be wasted by the broadcast flag?

TiVo to Go Released

TiVo to Go Released 01/03/2005 10:20 AM
Slashdot Jan 3 2005 1:14PM GMT

Who will buy Tivo for scrap?

Who will buy Tivo for scrap? 02/05/2005 10:16 PM

OK, I have to admit it. Tivo's goose is cooked. I've been a Tivo user for years, and like most Tivo owners, I absolutely love the product. I've been convinced since I first plugged it in that some day, all TV would work like this. And I'm still convinced of that. Television as a fixed schedule grid determined by networks and cable operators is doomed. User control is the future of TV.

Unfortunately, Tivo the company hasn't done as well as Tivo the idea, or Tivo the product design. The latest bad news is that Marty Yudkovitz, the ABC veteran brought in as President, is resigning. This after Mike Ramsay announced he would step down as CEO. Maybe someone else will come in and pull off a miraculous turnaround, but it seems unlikely. Cable operators and companies like Microsoft are launching their own digital recorders (DVRs), limiting Tivo's growth prospects.

Tivo, though, still has two big assets. I'm reasonably confident those assets will be valuable enough for one of the major industry players to purchase, or perhaps a consortium. The assets are Tivo's brand, and its patents.

Like Google, Tivo has reached "verb" status as a technology brand. People talk about "Tivoing" programs, because they associate the name with the whole concept of DVRs. That's worth a lot, even to a company that plans to scrap Tivo's actual technology. Just ask the good folks at Roxio, er, Napster.

Perhaps even more significant, though, is Tivo's intellectual property. I don't know exactly what patents Tivo holds, but it has a significant portfolio of assets, because it has been in the game so long and innovated in so many areas. Big interests that want to compete in the video space -- and that, today, means some very big interests -- won't want to be on the other side of those patents. We saw a similar story recently with Intertrust, which held key digital rights management patents that led to an acquisition by Sony and Philips.

Hey TiVo you create it I will buy it!

Hey TiVo you create it I will buy it! 05/28/2004 10:46 AM

I missed the original call from Endgadget to TiVo recommending that they get their software onto PC's but a follow on thread has me shaking my head up and down saying yes this is a damn good idea. After all I have a bunch of computers at home with a significant amount of storage why should I have to buy a separate box for just such recording activities. I know there are other solutions out there but I really like TiVo's interface and this would be the perfect application to add to my self made media center. The Corante website goes a step further with implementations that make my mouth water. [Corante< /a>] [Engadget]

Regulate TiVo?

Regulate TiVo? 01/06/2004 02:07 AM
We almost thought this was a joke, but apparently media analyst Tom Wolzien is dead serious in his proposal that the government regulate TiVos and...

TiVo gets mobile

TiVo gets mobile 01/03/2005 07:31 AM
USA Today Jan 3 2005 11:04AM GMT

TiVo Turns It Up

TiVo Turns It Up 08/09/2004 02:52 PM

TiVO and Strangeberry

TiVO and Strangeberry 08/13/2004 07:24 AM

Matt Haughey discovers the kick-ass potential of TiVO and Strangeberry.

This new Business 2.0 article (unfortunately, the full text is only available to subscribers or AOL users) describes that while much talk about TiVo has been grim this year, they may be on an upswing, thanks in part to new features developed from their acquisition of the startup Strangeberry.

So far, not much has been said about the Strangeberry-TiVo connection, but this article goes into some of the features the combo will bring to our favorite PVR:

The Wonderful World of Strangeberry

1 Strangeberry software does all the work. It recognizes the format of the content flowing in via TV cable or broadband Internet connection. Designed for easy tweaking, the software will be able to deal with formats that haven't yet been created.

2 The system is TV-centric, rather than PC-centric. A simple graphical interface is displayed on the TV, allowing the user to find what he wants and play it. The huge volume of content can be navigated with a single remote control device.

3 Strangeberry also recognizes where the user wants the content played. It routes the MP3 files to the stereo, but could simultaneously display album covers and music notes on the TV or a laptop.

It sounds great, having a system that builds upon the Home Media Option greatly to turn TiVo into a central entertainment hub that can send stuff from any of your computers to any of your stereo and TVs and vice versa (including sending video to and from your TiVo and PCs!). They also touch on a possible API that will let content companies build apps that can be accessed through TiVo, like voting for American Idol with your remote. If the entertainment companies can put their copyright sledgehammer aside and let TiVo do even half of what they describe, Strangeberry + TiVo could be a whole new revolution in home entertainment. I for one, can't wait to see what they do with it.

The article also paints a pretty rosy financial picture for TiVo, as they near profitability for the first time, which is also good news.

[PVRBlog ]

BoingBoing has an excerpt....

Damon Darlin of Business 2.0 sez: "Silicon Valley programming legend Arthur Van Hoff was a prolific coder at Sun (with almost as many patents as Bill Joy). His "Strangeberry" software will give the TiVo new powers, and it will be given away to anyone who wants to develop content on the Web. Residing on the next generation of TiVo machines, it will recognize incoming programming (JPEG images, video, MP3s, or whatever) and route it to the appropriate device in your living room." Link

TiVo Goes Portable

TiVo Goes Portable 01/03/2005 02:43 PM
CBS News Jan 3 2005 6:40PM GMT

TiVo To Tie Internet To TV

TiVo To Tie Internet To TV 06/09/2004 02:46 AM
Just after we wrote about how TV needed to better integrate with broadband services and just as DirecTV sold their entire stake in TiVo in order to build their own competitive offering - TiVo is announcing plans to better tie their service to the internet - letting users download additional content from the internet. There aren't many details so far, but it sounds like they're basically going to copy Akimbo's plan and try to route around broadcasters by letting users download content directly from the internet. While this has some benefits (and it would be cool if they added some broadca tching style features), it also may raise issues. There's still a question about how much viable content there is that would be offered over such a service. Will traditional providers be willing to provide content if they think it may harm their traditional channel? More importantly, broadband providers still don't want people downloading such huge files all the time. Even if it's completely legal, having users constantly downloading video programming may force broadband providers to rethink their offerings and become more aggressive in enforcing usage caps.

Get Started With TiVo

Get Started With TiVo 08/08/2004 01:51 AM
G4 Tech TV Aug 8 2004 5:12AM GMT
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