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- TiVo's new strategy: Too little, too late?
- ZDNet Senior Editor Sam Diaz says it's time for TiVo to focus its resources on licensing its technologies for the non-TiVo DVR boxes offered by cable and satellite TV providers. TiVo should abandon developing its standalone set-top boxes, since it has never been good at luring a mainstream customer base,...
- Tags: Strategy, TiVo Inc., Satellite TV, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Sam Diaz Memo, Tivo, DirecTV
- Videos 2008-09-03
- TiVo may give away free set-top boxes
- TiVo may give away free set-top boxesThe joy of TiVOI am an admitted gadget fanatic, and have spent 10s of thousands of dollars--many of which were wasted on too-complex, undependable, or over-hyped products.I got TiVo through DirecTV, and would be more inclined to give up DirecTV than TiVo. TiVo has...
- Tags: DVR, Digital video, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Network technology, tivo, set-top, set-top box, TiVo Inc., digital video recorder
- Discussion threads 2006-02-27
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- News to know: Cisco; Azure; Smartphones; Twitter lists; Facebook; Skype; Twitter device
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Cisco unveils collaboration, e-mail and social tools for the enterprise Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft puts more...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Skype Technologies S.A., Cisco Systems Inc., Smartphone, Sam Diaz, E-mail, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Online Communications, Internet, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-11-09
- TiVo readying 802.11n Wi-Fi adapter?
- It's been a tough slog for TiVo, whose once-innovative DVR ecosystem has been co-opted by cable companies' own DVR services. (Though some offer the TiVo interface for an additional charge.) The company and its devices still have their champions, but it's difficult to achieve mass success when buyers have to...
- Tags: Adapter, IEEE 802.11n, TiVo Inc., Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-11-07
- LG 60PS80
- Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...
- Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80
- Product reviews 2009-11-02
- LG 50PS80
- Photo gallery: LG PS80 seriesWhen it was announced at CES 2009, the LG PS80 series of plasma TVs earned one of our three nominations for Best of CES in the TV category. We've already reviewed the other two sets--Panasonic's G10 plasmas and Vizio's VF551XVT LED-based LCD--and both scored...
- Tags: TVs, Monitors & displays, LG Electronics Inc., LG PS80
- Product reviews 2009-11-02
- pyTivoX 1.3 (Mac)
- pyTivoX lets you transfer your media files from your mac to your tivo. It is a free replacement for the upload feature of Tivo Desktop Plus. Look at iTiVo for the download features. pyTiVoX only runs on OSX 10.5 Leopard and up. It is aimed at users of Series 2,...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, TiVo Inc., Yoav.Yerushalmi, Desktops, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- SuperSync 3.3.3 (Windows)
- SuperSync is the best way to visually compare and merge multiple iTunes libraries. All your music, movies, and playlists can be moved to all the computers you keep music on. Keep track of all your music across multiple computers--Mac OS X, Windows, and iPod; Compare and merge any two music...
- Tags: Music Library, Microsoft Windows, Music, SuperSync
- Software downloads 2009-10-24
- SuperSync 3.3.3 (Mac)
- SuperSync is the best way to visually compare and merge multiple iTunes libraries. All your music, movies, and playlists can be moved to all the computers you keep music on. Keep track of all your music across multiple computers -- Mac OS X, Windows, and iPod; Compare and merge any...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Music Library, Music, SuperSync
- Software downloads 2009-10-23
- Best 'bang for the buck' graphics cards
- No Love for NVIDIA?I'm a little disappointed you only mention one GeForce card as if they can't compete with ATI. I'm sensing either sponsorship or bias, Adrian... but if it's genuinely based on performance, I'd love to see some benchmarking and justification for the claim.They just killed off......half the cards...
- Tags: Video cards, HD 4890, card, ATI Technologies Inc., NVidia Corp., video card, graphics
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- With web-based TV widgets, Yahoo will televise 'The Internet Revolution'
- is this just another cable set up box?There are plenty of those already.If the cable box is included in TV's hardware than it becomes interesting.Conspicuously absent: the cable companiesNotice that nobody mentioned anybody like Time Warner, Cox, Verizon, ATT, or even DirecTV or Dish?Those companies have done their best to...
- Tags: TVs, Network technology, TV & Home Theater, Web, STB, cable, Yahoo! Inc., TV
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- TechCrunch throws down on cable boxes: Who can argue?
- The TechCrunch blog usually covers start-up culture, but a post today takes a diversion into the limited, primitive realm of cable boxes. You know 'em, you hate 'em. As post author MG Siegler points out, the interfaces are archaic, the horsepower anemic, and the remotes unappealing. He rightly suggests that...
- Tags: TechCrunch, Cable Box, TV, CableCard, Siegler, Cable, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Percentage of Internet users clicking on display ads halved in two years
- maybe users have wisen upand don't believe what the ads tell.I wish the same was true for spam.What is a display ad?Maybe people are blocking them.Ads? No thanks.I've been running NoScript and AdBlock Plus (The new "ABP element hiding helper" add-on is great, as well.) for as long as...
- Tags: Internet, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- TV Everywhere: We're not just ready; we're already doing it
- Television has gone through some major transformations over the years: color, cable, digital and even TiVo. Now, the industry is undergoing another transformation - and consumers are more than ready. A report released today found that consumers are already accessing television-style video content from devices other than...
- Tags: TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-09-30
- TiVo for BlackBerry (Mobile)
- With TiVo for BlackBerry your smartphone functions just like a TiVo remote control, so you can browse by category, popular shows, and daily picks, TiVo for BlackBerry is a program what you like to watch from virtually anywhere, browse quickly with an easy-to-navigate menu with a familiar TiVo look and...
- Tags: Mobile, RIM BlackBerry, TiVo Inc., Handhelds, Smart Phones, Cellular Phones, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-09-30
- DVR Shows 1.0 (Mobile)
- DVR Shows allows you to see what programs are currently stored on your DVR Digital Video Recorder. You can drill down into folders and view details about specific shows.It features supports TiVo DVRs, track any number of DVRs, display by date or alphabetical, list shows with or without folder groups,...
- Tags: Mobile, Digital Video Recorder, Rick Maddy, DVR Shows, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment
- Software downloads 2009-09-30
- MovieTaxi 3GP 3.9 (Windows)
- MovieTaxi 3GP video converter is an extremely easy to use one-click solution to convert Tivo, DivX, Xvid, MPEG, MPEG4, WMV, AVI, SVCD, RealMedia video to 3GP mobile phones in high quality at high speed. It uses a new MPEG4 encoder to produce smaller high quality video files at an incredible...
- Tags: MPEG-4, Microsoft Windows, Video, Ramka, MovieTaxi 3GP Video Converter, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-09-28
- MovieTaxi PSP 3.9 (Windows)
- MovieTaxi PSP video converter is an extremely easy to use one-click solution to convert Tivo, DivX, Xvid, MPEG, MPEG4, WMV, AVI, SVCD, RealMedia video to PSP in high quality at high speed. It uses a new MPEG4 encoder to produce smaller high quality video files at an incredible speed. ...
- Tags: MPEG-4, Microsoft Windows, Video, Sony PlayStation Portable, Ramka, MovieTaxi PSP Video Converter, Corporate Communications, Digital Video, Digital Media, Marketing, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-09-28
- MovieTaxi Zune Video Converter 3.9 (Windows)
- MovieTaxi Zune Video Converter is an extremely easy to use 1-Click solution to convert Tivo, DivX, Xvid, MPEG, MPEG4, WMV, AVI, SVCD, RealMedia videos and many more to Zune in high quality at high speed. It uses a new MPEG4 encoder to produce smaller high quality video files at an...
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, MPEG-4, Microsoft Windows, Ramka, MovieTaxi Zune Video Converter, Digital Video, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-09-28
- MovieTaxi iPod Video Converter 3.9 (Windows)
- MovieTaxi iPod Video Converter is an extremely easy to use 1-Click solution to convert Tivo, DivX, Xvid, MPEG, MPEG4, WMV, AVI, SVCD, RealMedia videos and many more to iPod Video in high quality at high speed. It uses a new MPEG4 encoder to produce smaller high quality video files at...
- Tags: Apple iPod, MPEG-4, Microsoft Windows, Video, Ramka, MovieTaxi iPod Video Converter, Digital Video, Digital Media, Corporate Communications, Digital Music, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-09-28
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