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TiVo Summer Update (9.4) rolling out
Dave Zatz has the info on the new updates to TiVo HD and Series 3 software. The new features are summed up as: Play or Delete a Folder, all shows in a folder Browse the Guide Any Time, even during playback/downloads Jump Forward in the Guide 24hrs with a single click Find a Station in... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

The history of the TiVo Remote
Gizmodo has an awesome and exhaustive history of the TiVo remote including lots of prototypes and molds and reasoning for why things turned out the way they did. After 8 years of using it, the TiVo peanut remote is still one of my favorite things about TiVo, and one of the best examples of... Read more...
Published 4 weeks ago

TBS ups the ante on annoying commerical insertion
My friend Jason caught TBS going to extraordinary lengths to get people to view an ad about an upcoming show by having an overlay character "walk on" and "pause" the current running show to plug their own show, then the original show was resumed, but right before a real commercial, producing an... Read more...
Published a month ago

Netflix Player by Roku
The long rumored set-top box for Netflix movies has finally arrived: Roku's Netflix Player. At $99 it doesn't look like too bad of a deal and along with a $17.99 Netflix account, it'll allow you to watch an unlimited number of movies and tv shows instantly through the device. Of course, the... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

TiVo Rewards Program almost over
It's been a long time coming but it looks like the TiVo Rewards program is finally shuttering in a couple weeks. I just got my last reminder email and I spent my last 5,000 points (screenshot above is from my email). Overall, it was a great program for someone like me that turned dozens of... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

TiVo Network Remotes for iPhone, Ubuntu
Thanks to last Fall's update to the TiVo OS, there was an undocumented way to telnet commands to your TiVo that Dave Zatz describes in this post. It was a bit of a hack and not much more than a proof of concept but it looks like a few enterprising developers have created TiVo remote control apps... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Microsoft's love of DRM
Microsoft has been in a ton of news lately: they lost their takeover bid of Yahoo in an attempt to garner a better internet strategy and two stories this week pointed out their embracing of Digital Rights Management (DRM), even when such measures can be hostile to their own customers. The... Read more...
Published 2 months ago

Guide to "Mac mini as media center"
Jon Hicks has a great post detailing the use of a Mac mini in place of an AppleTV. By going with the mini over the AppleTV, Hicks gets the added features of increased video format support, PVR functionality (through EyeTV), and DVD playback and ripping. The guide also focuses on how to make it... Read more...
Published 3 months ago

Awesome Fake Old TiVo Ads
From the Worth100 Photoshop Contest to design an old time ad for a modern product, two excellent entries try to imagine a 1950s ad for TiVo: one, two. I love the logo in that first one (screenshot at right) Read more...
Published 3 months ago

Comcast HD Quality Reduction
There's a great post on the AVS forum about Comcast HD Quality going down, featuring screenshots and analysis. A few months ago, I switched from Comcast to FiOS for more HD channels and a lower monthly price and I did notice that non-HD channels definitely looked better and HD channels were... Read more...
Published 4 months ago