Comcast takes on TiVo

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Comcast loves Tivo

Comcast loves Tivo 03/17/2005 03:48 AM
From the Tivo / Comcast Press release: Under the terms of the agreement, Comcast and TiVo will work together to...

TiVo signs on with Comcast

TiVo signs on with Comcast 03/17/2005 02:53 AM
In good news for fans of TiVo, the company has signed a deal under which Comcast will offer TiVo-branded DVRs to its subscribers. Will the deal cause DirecTV to rethink its relationship with TiVo?

Comcast and TiVo in distribution deal

Comcast and TiVo in distribution deal 03/17/2005 03:49 AM
Computer Business Review Mar 17 2005 7:27AM GMT

TiVo, Comcast Replace Stale Ignored Ads
With Fresh Ignored Ads

TiVo, Comcast Replace Stale Ignored Ads
With Fresh Ignored Ads 04/05/2005 05:40 PM
In the cat-and-mouse game of getting DVR owners to watch ads, you have to hand it TiVo and friends on one score: they're not afraid to try new things. You may recall from a couple years ago the sweeps takes gimmick tied to Lexus ads, and more recently they've been testing a program that will put pop-u p ads in your fast-forwarded ads. The latest twist is a joint development by TiVo and Comcast that will update your DVR's recordings with newer, more targeted ads. What's interesting here is not necessarily the impact on viewers -- negligible, at best, despite the inevitable protests of privacy advocates -- but rather TV's possible transformation to more Internet-like advertising concepts such as relevancy. More power to them, if they can pull it off.

TiVo giving away PVRs to spite Comcast

TiVo giving away PVRs to spite Comcast 12/19/2004 03:45 PM
TiVo is giving away PVRs in the San Francisco Bay area for a limited time, hoping to bring some joy to Comcast customers who have waited in vain for Comcast's own PVR.

Comcast subscribers flock to free TiVo
recorders

Comcast subscribers flock to free TiVo
recorders 12/19/2004 03:35 PM
Thousands lined up at TiVo's headquarters to get a free recorder and give a gift to charity.

TiVo Lives: Comcast Partnership
Officially Announced

TiVo Lives: Comcast Partnership
Officially Announced 03/17/2005 03:52 AM

Well just leave it to everyone's favorite DVR company to wait until the 11th hour to find a way to resurrect themselves. TiVo and Comcast today announced a strategic partnership wherein TiVo will develop new software to be integrated into Comcast's existing DVR platform. TiVo's vice chairman toyed a bit with grand understatements:

It is very important that TiVo has found a way to work with the nation's largest cable operator on a cooperative basis to develop a state-of-the-art TiVo Service, fully integrated with a cable set-top box, that will make TiVo available to millions of cable viewers.

As a TiVo subscriber and one of those loyal fans you hear so much about (or from, rather), I didn't want to believe the reports about TiVo's forthcoming demise. Rather, I grabbed onto whatever thread of sunshine I could, praying TiVo wouldn't fall asunder. Just like an old-time Nintendo fan, (which I also am) my blind loyalty has paid off, at least for now, and TiVo will live to see another day. Besides, I actually enjoy using TivoToGo.

Press Release [TiVo via ArsTech inca]

Comcast, TiVo plan system to put fresh
ads into recorded programs

Comcast, TiVo plan system to put fresh
ads into recorded programs 04/05/2005 07:50 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 5 2005 11:21PM GMT

Comcast takes hard line against spam

Comcast takes hard line against spam 06/10/2004 08:38 PM
Blocking ports of suspect PCs draws criticism, but customers send 665 million e-mails daily.

Comcast Finally Takes Action Against
Zombie Machines

Comcast Finally Takes Action Against
Zombie Machines 03/06/2004 02:05 AM
Just last week, we pointed to a story saying that 30% of all spam came from "zombie" machines (home users whose machines were infected by a trojan horse used to send out spam). At the time, we wondered why the various broadband service providers weren't doing anything to deal with this issue. Now, it looks like Comcast has finally realized that maybe they should be doing something and have started sending letters to users who have been found with machines sending spam. Of course, some users are saying that they solved the problem a month ago, and are still receiving the letters. Also, according to Broadband Reports, in some cases it appears that Comcast should have acted ages ago - such as with five specific IP addresses that were shown to be responsible for over 45,000 spam messages.

Comcast declaring war on TiVo with the
Motorola 6412 - Engadget -
www.engadget.com

Comcast declaring war on TiVo with the
Motorola 6412 - Engadget -
www.engadget.com 12/27/2004 03:32 PM
Engadget had a short post .. this story at Engadget

engadget.com/entry/1234000470024667
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Time Warner, Comcast Get Adelphia,
Comcast Celebrates By Turning Off DNS

Time Warner, Comcast Get Adelphia,
Comcast Celebrates By Turning Off DNS 04/08/2005 12:13 PM
It looks like Adelphia cable broadband customers who are about to get shifted over to Comcast have plenty of outages to look forward to. The same evening that it's announced that Time Warner and Comcast will jointly devour what's left of Adelphia for about $18 billion, Comcast had major DNS issues leaving many of their users offline. Of course, in explaining the widespread outage, Comcast is using their favorite phrase: "scheduled maintenance." That's the same thing they told me when Comcast turned off my service nearly every weekday last October. I would call every morning and be told that it was "scheduled maintenance." However, when I asked what the schedule was and if I'd have service the next day, I was told they had no idea. Apparently, it doesn't become scheduled until it actually cut you off.

Comcast Outages Prevent Comcast From
Commenting On Comcast Outages

Comcast Outages Prevent Comcast From
Commenting On Comcast Outages 04/14/2005 01:21 PM
Last week, we noted that Comcast was having widespread outage problems, which they chalk ed up to "scheduled maintenance", even though no one was actually informed of said schedule ahead of time. It turns out that schedule is pretty crowded, because all week long, there have been continued reports of recurring outages all across the Comcast network. Comcast, of course, continues to be pretty much silent on the issue, leaving its increasingly fed up call center staff to deal with incredibly angry customers who feel they're getting no information at all. How hard is it to admit that they screwed up and they're working on fixing the problem? Instead of chalking it up to bogus scheduled maintenance or pretending there's nothing wrong, admit what the problem is and give people real updates. People would still be unhappy, but at least they'd feel like the company wasn't ignoring them. Of course, maybe they can't do that because Comcast staffers don't have any internet access either...

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

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

Friends finale and NBC Tivo-b0rking --
TiVo Strikes Back 05/07/2004 10:49 AM
Following up on yesterday's post about NBC's apparent attempts to b0rk potential TiVoers of the Friends finale, BoingBoing reader Douglas Clark says,

I am a loyal Tivo user and Tivo did send out a message alert to users about the Friends episode. It was more along the lines of "if you manually extend the time of a recording, you may miss the beginning of the friends final episode." I find that Tivo is pretty good about catching unusual start times and other wonky tricks the networks play. The previous comment about HUT and ratings was right on the money...

Link to previous BoingBoing post.

Tech maven Meg Hourihan adds, "Even weirder is that I got a message on my Tivo warning me that the finale of Friends would have abnormal times. The message warned that if I wasn't just using the automatic "start on time" and "end on time" settings (i.e. I manually set the start time as 8 PM) that I might miss some. What makes things weirder and worse is that Tivo still didn't record the whole show! I made sure my settings were what the message instructed, and happened to watch the show live. Tivo kicked in to record at 8:59 PM (which is what it listed the start time as) but stopped at 9:59! According to the time on my digital cable box, the program didn't end until 10:03 PM. So if I hadn't watched it live, I would have missed the last four minutes. Seems like a major screw-up on Tivo's part, especially after sending out that message!"

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 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.com | TiVo Press Releases

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

tivo.com/5.3.1.1.asp?article=196
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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.

Zander takes reins as Motorola takes
rivals' challenge

Zander takes reins as Motorola takes
rivals' challenge 01/04/2004 02:21 PM
CNET Jan 4 2004 1:07PM ET

""President Bush, after a National
Security Council meeting, takes Don
Rumsfeld aside, collars him physically
and takes him into a little cubbyhole
room and closes the door and says, 'What
have you got in terms of plans for
Iraq?' What is the status of..."

""President Bush, after a National
Security Council meeting, takes Don
Rumsfeld aside, collars him physically
and takes him into a little cubbyhole
room and closes the door and says, 'What
have you got in terms of plans for
Iraq?' What is the status of..." 04/18/2004 03:02 PM

Comcast Still Thinking Big

Comcast Still Thinking Big 04/28/2004 04:10 PM
TheStreet.com Apr 28 2004 8:04PM GMT

How Comcast Let the Mouse Get Away

How Comcast Let the Mouse Get Away 04/29/2004 09:02 AM
Business Week Apr 29 2004 1:18PM GMT

Bray on Comcast

Bray on Comcast 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
Tim Bray, one of the fathers of XML, blogs about the NY Times reporting that Comcast is going to add services to its delivery of broadband. Tim knocks 'em upside the head: Let's lay it out in maximally-simple bullet-point form so anyone can understand it: Fast pipe. Always on. Get out of the way. You can't get much clearer than that....

AT&T Broadband / Comcast or

AT&T Broadband / Comcast or 03/20/2003 05:32 PM

AT&T Broadband / Comcast or "I'd Rather Eat Glass"

Damn.  Last week Kasia got screwed by AT&T / Comcast.  Now its me.  Here's what happened:

1. Come back from meeting with a client about a bunch of rather interesting stuff.  Some Inbox Buddy, some Feedster for internal use, some Frontier consulting and some miscellaneous other open source issues. 
   
2. Virtually no network performance at all.> 200 ms ping times, hosts not resolving, etc.  Call AT&T. 
   
3. Suffer thru one of the worst voice response systems I've seen in a long time.  Horrid.
   
4. Reach a technician.  He makes me remove my PC from the Linksys broadband router that shields my PC from the outside world.  I'm not happy about this but a 10 Base T coupler makes it a lot easier.
   
5. He tells me to restart.  I counter with "ipconfig /renew".  He shuts up.
   
6. I start doing some ping tests and he's telling me that all is well and happy, frothy goodness since he can ping me fine. 
   
7. I start to traceroute and give him feedback about the broken routes.  I ask him:  What's an email address so I can mail it to you?  "I don't have one".  What's a hot mail account I can send it to?  "I can't give that to you either."  So I ended up reading him the bad routes.  Pathetic.  And this from a company that sucks $50 from me monthly for broadband?
   
8. I finally give him the info, he checks it from there after a 5 minute hold session and B I N G O !  I was *right*.  They have a problem on their internal network and then I had to wait on hold for another 5 minutes while he filled out a trouble ticket.  Then I got the really bad news.
   
9. "It'll be resolved within 72 hours.  Not necessarily fixed but hopefully a solution decided upon."  What the fsck does that mean ?  That within 3 days from now, you'll decide how to fix it and then take as long as you like?  Utterly, totally pathetic. 

End result?  Over an hour of my time shot to hell simply because AT&T can't proactively monitor its own damn network.  I tell you, times like this?  I'd rather eat glass than be an AT&T customer.

Not So Fast, Comcast

Not So Fast, Comcast 02/17/2004 06:03 AM
Business Week Feb 17 2004 10:18AM GMT

Comcast bids for Disney

Comcast bids for Disney 02/12/2004 02:43 AM
Boston Globe Feb 12 2004 6:04AM GMT

Comcast Gets Tough on Spam

Comcast Gets Tough on Spam 06/12/2004 06:45 PM

Comcast plans Web phone

Comcast plans Web phone 05/26/2004 09:03 PM
CNN May 27 2004 0:34AM GMT

Comcast Is a Cash Machine

Comcast Is a Cash Machine 04/28/2004 01:10 PM
After dropping out of the Disney race, what will Comcast do with all that green?

Comcast Casts Wider Net

Comcast Casts Wider Net 05/27/2004 01:55 PM
The No. 1 cable operator set to expand VoIP and DVR.

Net outage strikes Comcast

Net outage strikes Comcast 04/08/2005 12:57 AM
Blog: Comcast, the largest provider of broadband Internet access with 6.5 million customers, suffered a general outage Thursday evening. ...

DNS issue hobbles Comcast

DNS issue hobbles Comcast 04/08/2005 03:04 PM
A domain name system problem causes headaches for Comcast's broadband subscribers nationwide.

Comcast pulls out of Disney bid

Comcast pulls out of Disney bid 04/28/2004 07:29 AM
The US cable TV firm scraps plans to buy Walt Disney after the entertainment giant shows "no interest" in its bid approach.

Comcast suffers DNS outage

Comcast suffers DNS outage 04/08/2005 05:45 PM
Comcast said its DNS troubles yesterday were unrelated to recent "cache poisoning" attacks on DNS servers. Service was restored around midnight last night.

Second Night of Outages Hit Comcast

Second Night of Outages Hit Comcast 04/14/2005 09:22 AM
Comcast High Speed Internet subscribers again found themselves without Internet service for the second night in a row and the third time in two weeks as "server problems" plagued the cable provider once again. The latest round of troubles is causing several subscribers to begin to look elsewhere for broadband Internet service.

Disney spurns Comcast bid

Disney spurns Comcast bid 02/17/2004 04:11 AM
ZDNet UK Feb 17 2004 8:38AM GMT

Comcast drops Disney bid

Comcast drops Disney bid 04/28/2004 07:34 AM
The cable giant withdraws its multibillion-dollar offer to acquire Disney, citing opposition from the entertainment company.
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