TiVo and the Mac Burning Files to a DVD

I’m not a Mac user however; I found this article to be rather interesting. The author of the article has tried to burn their TiVo files to a DVD. The only problem is that they are running a Mac. The experience they had with their Mac is quite interesting and in fact [...]

Most TiVo’d Olympic Moment

As we all know, TiVo collects annonymous usage information about their customer’s viewing habits. According to this article, the top 3 TiVo’d moments of the 2004 summer Olympics were:

1. USA Olympian Paul Hamm’s gold medal performance on the high bar on
August 18
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Can’t Wait For JavaHMO 2.0!

I’m rather excited about the next release of JavaHMO. To my knowledge no release date has been set yet however, there appears to be some significant changes for the next version. According to the release notes, version 2.0 will utilize a new plugin architecture with the following plugins:

Email
Gallery
Image organizer
iTunes
Jukebox
NNTP
RSS
Web pages
Expanded weather

Being the big [...]

TiVo Loss Widens While Subscribers Grow

Several sources (Yahoo, CNET, ABCNews) have just reported that TiVo has announced a net loss of $10.8 Million or 13 cents per share. The 13 cents per share loss is much lower then what many analysts had predicated. On average most analysts predicted a loss of 25 cents per share.

On [...]

No TiVo In Australia!

According to this article, (subscription required, unless you go through Google) Australia copyright law has prevented PVR makers such as TiVo from using guide data. In other words, no PVR maker has emerged in Australia because under current law, it is illegal to use raw programming data!

The TV networks control who gets [...]

TiVo Boondocks Comic Strip

Note: The Denver Post has removed this comic from their site. You can still get it if you want to pay for it…
The DenverPost has posted a Boondocks comic which describes the feeling most people have when they first get a TiVo. Check it out it’s pretty funny .

TiVo Better Act Soon (TiVo’s Acquisition of Strangeberry)!

As of late, there has been a lot of talk about TiVo’s acquisition of Strangeberry and how this acquisition is some how going to save TiVo (Business 2.0). From what I’ve read, Strangeberry appears to have some very powerful software. If TiVo is able to leverage this software and bring internet content [...]

TiVo Needs To Better Support Open Source Community

This article about TiVo suggestions got me thinking about something. One section of the article mentions the TiVo Web Project and how TiVo has yet to implement several of the features available in this open source project. This very fact made me wonder; why doesn’t TiVo consider what’s being developed in open [...]

Want To Watch The Olympics? TiVo Can Help!

If you are at all like me, you thoroughly enjoy watching the Olympics. The only problem with watching them is that they are on throughout the day and night. What do you do if your favorite event is on at 2:30 in the morning? Prior to TiVo I would not have been [...]

Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must each do to win the living room

Engadget has an excellent article which talks about 10 different things that both TiVo and Microsoft must do to win the DVR market. The article was originally posted by Thomas Hawk.

I thought that one of the points was particularly good….

Provide the ability to connect external hard drives. The robust 250GB drive on my [...]