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The Best Thing In The World: TiVo Transfers

The headline is admittedly salacious, but I had an epiphany last night that I've just got to share with you, faithful reader. It's called TiVo Transfers and it's awesome. First a little background is in order. A few years ago I was a fiercely loyal TiVo customer...

Tags: Comcast Corp., TiVo Inc., Digital Video Recorder, TiVo Transfers, Comcast DVR, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-17

TiVo readies for prime time with Comcast

TiVo readies for prime time with ComcastA total disappointmentIt's too bad Tivo has bent over backwards to help the content owners. It used to be a good service.http://one.revver.com/watch/76503/format/flv/affiliate/23672TiVo and ComcastWatch your back TiVo! You've stumbled into the den of the bastards that killed ZD/Tv-TechTv. These bean counters would...

Tags: DVR, Digital video, Network technology, TiVo-box, TiVo Inc., Comcast Corp., satellite, Comcast DVR

Discussion threads 2006-10-31

Microsoft fixes can cause Windows Media Player trouble

Microsoft fixes can cause Windows Media Player troubleGee, I'm shocked!Who wuda thunk - a MICROSUCKS Patch that corrups defective code.That really sucks....when a patch fixes one problem, and causes another. I suppose Microsoft will issue some patches for the patches to solve the problems. But isn't that one of those...

Tags: Patches, Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Comcast DVR, Microsoft Corp., patch management, Microsoft Windows Media Player, Windows Media Player trouble, media player, Microsoft Windows, Windows Media

Discussion threads 2006-03-09

Additional Resources

Court lifts FCC limits on cable ownership

Here come even HIGHER prices ....and thousands of channels of mediocrity.Look at satellite radio - unlimited channels of the same old same old !Satellite RadioActually when it first started and there was competing services ala XM and Sirius satellite radio was cheap, $9.99XM and $12.99 Sirius - both worked out...

Tags: Network technology, Satellite radio, cable, satellite, cable ownership, FCC

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Apple's future TV: Can Web-based apps replace "channels," kill cable?

Gene Munster's living room of the future is centered around a Web-connected, iTunes-powered Apple-branded TV - a 50-inch, high-def, wall-mounted iPhone, if you will. And the stuff you'll watch on this "TV set" won't come in via Comcast or DirecTV. It will all stream in from - or be archived...

Tags: Web, Apple Inc., Apple TV, Apple iTunes, Cable, Munster, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-20

More channels join Comcast's Online On Demand service; Verizon adds interactive widgets to FiOS TV

Where I live, and in many other regions of the country, Comcast and Verizon are duking it out over paid TV customers, with Comcast's cable service often the incumbent and FiOS the scrappy new kid (if you can call a huge corporation like Verizon "scrappy"). Internet service is...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Video, Widget Bazaar, Corporate Communications, Internet, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Network Technology, Marketing, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-07-15

TV's future: the partnerships are forming now

In just the last few days, there were a few news announcements that, separately, were kind of ho-hum. But together, it appears that the stars are suddenly starting to align for the next generation of television, one that's more of an on-demand Internet-based experience, instead of a schedule-driven feed from...

Tags: Partnership, TiVo Inc., Programming, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-25

The Best Thing In The World: TiVo Transfers

The Best Thing In The World: TiVo TransfersRE: The Best Thing In The World: TiVo TransfersRecently dumped Comcast and got DirecTV, their HD DVR and guide blows away Comcast's. Only thing good I can say about Comcast is they had HD DVR before Tivo had any HD offering. ...

Tags: DVR, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Digital video, Cable, TiVo Inc., Comcast Corp., TiVo Transfer, Best Thing, DirecTV

Discussion threads 2009-04-17

Rowing Cable’s Canoe: An ‘Ecological Play’

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Cable operators are regional. They want to bring in national ad dollars. And they want to take ad dollars back from targeted ad-sellers online like market leader Google. So the six biggest players â€" Comcast, Time Warner...

Tags: Advertisement, Canoe Ventures, David Verklin, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-04-03

CES 2009: Intel recruits Comcast, Samsung, Toshiba for its Widget Channel Internet TV initiative

While Yahoo has been grabbing headlines this week with its partnerships with TV makers like Samsung and Vizio to bring its Internet TV widget platform to new sets, Intel wants to make sure people remember that it also introduced the underlying API with Yahoo last fall at the Intel Developers...

Tags: Set-top Box, Set-top, Internet TV, Comcast Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp., Intel Corp., Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-01-08

TiVo control comes to iPhone

TiVo control comes to iPhoneYawn, MS innovated this long agoBy tapping into the extremely innovative [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SideShow]SideShow[/url] feature of Vista something OS X has no answer for, I can interact with my Vista Media PC through my Windows Mobile phone using BlueTooth. Not only can I control all aspects of the...

Tags: DVR, Microsoft Windows, Digital video, TiVo Inc., cable company, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Microsoft Corp., digital video recorder, cable, Comcast Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

TiVo control comes to iPhone

I used to be a huge fan of TiVo until the cable companies made me a deal that I couldn't refuse. While I still like the TiVo interface much better than the abysmal Comcast DVR, it comes down to simple economics. The cable companies are willing to...

Tags: Apple iPhone, TiVo Inc., Digital Video Recorder, TiVo Mobile Site, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-11-25

First tru2way HDTVs available from Panasonic

The first generation of CableCards was pretty much a bust, as cable companies didn't want anything to do with the devices, which could replace a set-top box by being installed in TVs or home theater PCs HTPCs. The disinterest was due to the fact that the technology only allowed...

Tags: Panasonic, Tru2way, HDTV, Cable, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-10-15

Comcast really does care (aka how Twitter helped save Nick at Nite)

Comcast really does care aka how Twitter helped save Nick at NiteYou are not the only one...Fresh Prince is still cool and funny. I did the same as you, but once I started making use of my media center in vista I was watching recorded shows of Inuyasha and Angel...

Tags: DVR, Fresh Prince, Comcast Corp., Nick-at-Nite, Twitter, CableCard

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

Comcast details changes for managing Web traffic

Comcast details changes for managing Web trafficJust web traffic?Im wondering when they say "web traffic" - do they mean all traffic put on the pipe from the sub? or just Port 80 http traffic? If they get caught "slowing down" VoIP I could see where regulators could come back down...

Tags: Cable, Network technology, TVs, TV & Home Theater, ATT, Comcast Corp., digital reciever, paid-for, reciever

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

How I dumped my DVR for a terabyte TiVo

How I dumped my DVR for a terabyte TiVoI think you meant..."With the TiVo DVR, whatever you programmed in last takes priority." From context I think you mean that this happens with the Time Warner SA DVR, since on a TiVo by default new SPs get the *lowest* priority...

Tags: DVR, Digital video, OK IT, TiVo Inc., digital video recorder

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

TiVo HD XL (150 HD hours)

When TiVo discontinued its high-end cable-ready high-def DVR, the TiVo Series3, it was really just making room for a new product in the line: the TiVo HD XL. The new TiVo is a near twin to the existing TiVo HD, but for three changes: it's got a much larger...

Tags: DVR, Digital video, Network technology, TV & Home Theater, TVs, cable, TiVo Inc.

Product reviews 2008-09-04

Is there still an opportunity for TiVo?

Is there still an opportunity for TiVo?TiVo & DirecTVTiVo are not competing with DirecTV by selling their own boxes since the TiVo HD box does not work with satellite, only cable. By partnering with DirecTV they would then have the cable market AND the satellite market available to them....

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVR, TiVo Inc., DirecTV

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

Life without the Internet: Zapped off the grid

Life without the Internet: Zapped off the grid...."[B]But - it does show that maybe we're a bit too dependent on our devices and that we can be a bit too caught up in the technology of the day.[/B]"That's part of the lesson and the rest of your post is dead...

Tags: Engineering, MAKE SURE, phone book, Zapped off-the-grid, Third World, phone, Internet

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

News to know: LinuxWorld; Cisco; Microsoft; Yahoo

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft sending mixed messages about Windows futures with 'Fiji'? Sam Diaz: LinuxWorld keynotes: Now is the time to invest. Larry Dignan: IBM, Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat gang up on Vista A new data center?...

Tags: Apple iPhone, LinuxWorld, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Cloud Computing, Help Desk, Data Centers, Corporate Communications, It Operations, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-08-06