TiVo's big push

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Tivo's HME SDK

Tivo's HME SDK 02/01/2005 10:14 PM
Tivo has released a Software Development Kit (SDK) for their broad-band connected Tivo units: HME is the code name for TiVo’s powerful new open platform for applications that are displayed and controlled by broadband-connected TiVo Series2 DVRs. HME applications are written using the Java programming language and can run on home PC’s or remote servers hosted by TiVo. At this time, HME applications can not control any of the TiVo DVR’s scheduling, recording, or video playback capabilities. Developers use the...

TiVo's bad news

TiVo's bad news 02/05/2005 10:06 PM
Usatoday.com - Thu Feb 3, 08:12 pm GMT

DirectTV breaks some TiVo's

DirectTV breaks some TiVo's 06/17/2005 03:51 PM

Unlike computers when DirectTV wants to upgrade your box they just force the download on ya and install it automatically. Apparently their last update broke some TiVo's and the conspiracies are flying. [Wired]

Worshipping at TiVo's shrine

Worshipping at TiVo's shrine 11/10/2003 11:18 PM
Type the word "TiVo" in Google and you will encounter a typhoon of rapturous prose, including endless echoes of the phrase "it has changed my life." Michael ...

On TiVo's remote control

On TiVo's remote control 02/19/2004 11:21 AM
Not sure why they're writing about this now (as opposed to three or four years ago), but today's Circuits section of the New York...

TiVo's Half-a-Loaf Next-Generation DVR

TiVo's Half-a-Loaf Next-Generation DVR 01/10/2004 01:02 PM
Cory Doctorow explains why the upcoming TiVo is deliberately broken: to prevent you from exercising full fair use rights because Hollywood doesn't want you to.

TiVo's new PC-viewing deliberately
broken

TiVo's new PC-viewing deliberately
broken 01/09/2004 09:56 PM
TiVo has rolled out "TiVo to Go," a service that allows you to move video from your TiVo to your PC's hard-drive, and then to burn the file to a DVD. Unfortunately, the system uses a proprietary DRM system that tethers the video to your machine and your home, meaning that you can't move the video to your hard-drive as an MPG file that you can edit at will, send to a friend, include in a school report, grab stills out of to make a highlight reel, etc. In other words, TiVo is lagging the functionality available for free in open source software projects like mythtv.

Once selected, the secure and encrypted TiVo recorded programs are moved to the PC, where the TiVo Content Security Key is used to unlock the files for playback or burning, preventing files from being shared online, outside of the user's home network.

The TiVo Content Security Key and the TiVo-enabled versions of Sonic Solution's MyDVD and CinePlayer applications will be sold as a bundle at www.tivo.com.

The TiVo execs I've spoken with about this have expressed TiVo's philosophy as "reasonable compromise" -- delivering features that customers want, so long as it doesn't make the Hollywood companies too unhappy. This is usually presented as a business-person's realpolitik: look, kid, we know your ideals say that crippling the stuff we sell you is bad, but we've got a company to run here.

What's funny about this is that it's the exact opposite of the traditional way of running a disruptive technology business: no one crippled the piano roll to make sure it didn't upset the music publishers, Marconi didn't cripple the radio to appease the Vaudeville players -- hell, railroad barons never slowed their steam-engines down to speeds guaranteed to please the teamsters.

Where does this bizarre idea -- that the dinosaur industry that's being displaced gets to dictate terms to the mammals who are succeeding it -- come from?

I'll tell you two things that are obvious to my entrepreneurial instincts:

1. There is no market demand for TiVo's DRM -- or anyone else's. No TiVo customer got out of bed this morning and said, "Damn, I wish there was a way I could do less with my videos."

2. If TiVo isn't giving customers the features they want, someone else (like a commercial packager of mythtv, for example) will.

Not delivering the products your customers demand is not good business. It never has been. Link

TiVo's Plans Lead to Fight On Copyrights

TiVo's Plans Lead to Fight On Copyrights 07/22/2004 04:38 PM

TiVo's Plans Lead to Fight On Copyrights
(TechNews.com)

TiVo's Plans Lead to Fight On Copyrights
(TechNews.com) 07/23/2004 09:56 AM

TiVo's Plans Lead to Fight On Copyrights
(washingtonpost.com)

TiVo's Plans Lead to Fight On Copyrights
(washingtonpost.com) 07/21/2004 11:10 PM
washingtonpost.com - Hollywood studios and the National Football League are seeking to block the maker of the popular TiVo television recorder from expanding its service so that users could watch copies of shows and movies on devices outside their homes.

Video on Demand tie-in with TiVo shows a
glimpse of TiVo's plans?

Video on Demand tie-in with TiVo shows a
glimpse of TiVo's plans? 06/13/2004 09:24 PM
Last week TiVo revealed its intention to get into the content distribution business, but they said little about the details of their plan. Many assumed that TiVo would be aiming for an "on demand" service that would tap into the Internet. Not quite.

TiVo's Plans Lead to Fight On
Copyrights: Technology Would Allow
Transfer of Programs

TiVo's Plans Lead to Fight On
Copyrights: Technology Would Allow
Transfer of Programs 07/22/2004 09:26 AM
Washington Post Jul 22 2004 1:31PM GMT

SP2: Customer Push Back Leads to
Delivery Push Back

SP2: Customer Push Back Leads to
Delivery Push Back 08/17/2004 09:42 AM
Citing corporate concerns, Microsoft has postponed its automatic delivery of Windows XP Service Pack 2(SP2). Most corporate users of the Professional Edition now are set to get SP2 via Windows Update/Automatic Update by August 25 or later (rather than August 16, as planned).

Push UPS

Push UPS 01/17/2004 10:43 PM
As I continue to try to figure out why my office eats computer equipment for breakfast, I'm thinking that my Uninterruptible Power Supply may be inadequate. Everyone who reads this knows more about electrical stuff than I do, so perhaps you can help me... I have an APC UPS Pro 650, 650 VA, 400 Watts. My computer has, I believe, a 450W power supply. I also have a 22" CRT plugged into the UPS. So, I think that my UPS isn't up to the task. It's So, do I need a heftier UPS? If so, what specs should I be...

SAP to push on .Net

SAP to push on .Net 05/12/2004 05:15 PM
In addition to boosting .Net support around its Netweaver middleware platform, SAP said it will create a collaboration technology support center with Microsoft to craft and showcase examples of joint integration.

Sony's big push for the PSP

Sony's big push for the PSP 03/24/2005 11:55 AM
The PlayStation Portable arrives in North America amid expectations that it's not just any old game machine.

The Last-Minute Push

The Last-Minute Push 07/02/2004 02:55 PM

Wherein I make a final pitch for the DF membership/T-shirt drive.

Tripartite push

Tripartite push 07/21/2004 04:10 AM
CNET Asia Jul 21 2004 7:59AM GMT

China push

China push 01/26/2004 12:07 AM
CNET Asia Jan 26 2004 3:41AM GMT

Standards push

Standards push 01/19/2004 07:17 AM
CNET Asia Jan 19 2004 11:27AM GMT

RSS has nothing to do with push
technology

RSS has nothing to do with push
technology 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Weekly Read has one of the few articles which point out that people confuse RSS and push, although it stops...

Push For Your iPod?

Push For Your iPod? 08/14/2004 10:35 PM
Dave Winer wants fresh content off the Internet onto his iPod everytime he does a sync. Don't you want too?

IPV6 push

IPV6 push 07/26/2004 02:19 AM
CNET Asia Jul 26 2004 5:37AM GMT

CDMA push

CDMA push 04/29/2004 02:45 PM
CNET Asia Apr 29 2004 6:47PM GMT

Push for biometrics

Push for biometrics 05/19/2004 07:16 PM
USA Today May 19 2004 11:54PM GMT

EMC, IBM make NAS push

EMC, IBM make NAS push 08/30/2004 05:17 PM
EMC hopes to shake up the NAS market this week when it announces a low-priced offering that delves into territory staked out by NAS pioneer Network Appliance.

Eat Me, Drink Me, Push Me (...)

Eat Me, Drink Me, Push Me (...) 12/11/2002 08:09 AM

AOL's Aggressive Push

AOL's Aggressive Push 06/01/2004 06:37 PM
Motley Fool-3 hours agoEverybody may be preoccupied with Google's impending IPO, but in the meantime, Time Warner's (NYSE: TWX) America Online unit is still trying to keep itself ...

Push vs. Pull

Push vs. Pull 04/11/2005 02:29 PM
Online media distribution can mean getting what you want when you want it. Satellite radio and online music are putting the power of choice back in consumers' hands where it belongs.

Push-to-Shut Up

Push-to-Shut Up 02/25/2003 12:20 PM
It seems like everyone wants to clone Nextel's Direct Connect. The aspiring copycats are basing their versions on VOIP, theoretically...

Push technology gets a nudge

Push technology gets a nudge 01/07/2004 02:58 PM
It's a new year, the tech economy is growing again, and we're just about due for a new digital fad -- or the resurrection of an old one. Think back to a simpler, stupider time -- 1997, to be exact. The Internet craze still hadn't peaked. Each new issue of Wired magazine featured several zany new business ideas, and nutty investors proved willing to give them a go. One of the favorites was called "push" technology....

Grid Computing: The Next Push

Grid Computing: The Next Push 01/07/2004 02:55 PM
Grid Computing is, according to the Grid Information Centre, a way to "...enable the sharing, selection, and aggregation of a wide variety of geographically distributed computational resources." It is, in other words, an attempt to make Sun's famous pronouncement "The Network Is The Computer" an even more workable proposition. (It is also an instantiation of several of the patterns of decentralization that used to travel together under the name peer-to-peer.)

Despite the potential generality of the Grid, most of the public pronouncements are focusing on the use of Grids for supercomputing. IBM defines it more narrowly: Grid Computing is "... applying resources from many computers in a network-at the same time-to a single problem", and the MIT Technology Review equated Grid technology with supercomputing on tap when it named Grids one of "Ten Technologies That Will Change the World."

This view is wrong. Supercomputing on tap won't live up to to this change-the-world billing, because computation isn't a terribly important part of what people do with computers. This is a lesson we learned with PCs, and it looks like we will be relearning it with Grids. - More at http://www.shirky.com/writings/grids.html

Developer Doc... Getting Started With
WAP Push v1.1

Developer Doc... Getting Started With
WAP Push v1.1 08/17/2004 03:32 PM
SymbianOne Aug 17 2004 7:39PM GMT

Mac Founders Push For New Ideas

Mac Founders Push For New Ideas 01/06/2004 10:45 AM
The crew that put together the first Mac is celebrating its 20th birthday, but some are disappointed over the apparent lack of innovation in personal computers. By Daniel Terdiman (Wired News via MyAppleMenu)

IBM broadens midmarket push

IBM broadens midmarket push 05/12/2004 11:16 AM
Big Blue adds new offerings to its "Express" portfolio of products and services for small and medium businesses.

Mac Founders Push for New Ideas

Mac Founders Push for New Ideas 01/06/2004 05:42 AM
The crew that put together the first Mac is celebrating its 20th birthday, but some are disappointed over the apparent lack of innovation in personal computers. By Daniel Terdiman.

Yahoo in Hollywood push

Yahoo in Hollywood push 04/08/2005 12:34 PM
ONE News Apr 8 2005 5:15PM GMT

The Web: Push To Tax Online Sales

The Web: Push To Tax Online Sales 02/05/2005 09:43 PM
E-Commerce Times Feb 5 2005 1:38PM GMT

AOL's Aggressive Push

AOL's Aggressive Push 06/01/2004 02:10 PM
A two-month ad campaign begins to push "AOL for Broadband."
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TiVo's big push

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