TiVo Offically Releases A Dual Tuner DVR

Back on March 28th this site and several others broke the news about TiVo releasing a dual tuner Series 2 DVR. Well, the lucky bastards over at Engadget and CNET got their hands on one before anybody else. The 80 hr. version is currently available for $254 with a prepaid one year subscription. [...]

Has TiVo Partnered Up With Blockbuster?

If you follow this site, you probably already know that at one point in time TiVo and Netflix had said that they were going to partner up on an online video on demand (VOD) service. Well, now it looks like TiVo has instead partnered with Blockbuster to offer Blockbuster’s online subscription service. Dave [...]

Blogging About TiVo For Dummies

Here’s something that a buddy of mine sent me. I thought it was worth sharing with everybody else .

Galleon 2.3 Released

I guess Leon hasn’t stopped developing Galleon just yet. Yesterday he released version 2.3.

Here are the release notes straight from Galleon’s website:

Version 2.3.0:
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Native version for Windows
Resync ToGo video files if moved
Fixed ToGo stats doubling
Fixed GoBack subfolders
Fixed ToGo sorting by TiVo name in GUI
Fixed movie posters
Fixed upcoming dates

TiVo Awarded $73 Million In Its Patent Dispute Against EchoStar!

According to the Associated Press, TiVo has been awarded $73 million in its patent dispute against EchoStar. Several analysts had said that this was a life or death case for TiVo. The stock market has acted according bringing TiVo’s stock price up nearly 20% to $9.65.

Congratulations TiVo! I’m sure there will be [...]

Update On TiVo Vs. EchoStar

MarshallNewsMessenger.com has done a wonderful job covering the TiVo vs. EchoStar case. Here’s a snippet from what was published today:

After nine days of mind-boggling technical testimony, both sides rested Tuesday in TiVo Inc.’s patent infringement lawsuit against EchoStar Communications Corp., owner of Dish Network.

U. S. District Judge David Folsom dismissed the five-man, five-woman jury [...]

TiVo Has Revolutionized The Way We Watch Commercials

Mike over at Techdirt.com has posted an interesting article which talks about how TiVo is changing the way we watch commercials.  Check it out if you are interested in that kind of thing.  I thought it was rather well done and that it brought up some good points.

DirecTV And TiVo Are Friends Once Again

It looks like the relationship between DirecTV and TiVo isn’t as shaky as I once reported. Just today DirecTV announced that they would extend their service and support agreement with TiVo for another three years! The agreement also has several provisions which are supposed to prevent TiVo from bringing DirecTV to court over [...]

TiVo Selects Their Ambassador

Back in September of 05 TiVo announced that they were looking for somebody who could represent the company as a TiVo ambassador. Just today TiVo announced Matt Ward of San Diego was selected to be the ambassador. Matt has already started blogging on the official TiVo blog. More information on Matt as well [...]

TiVo Goes To Battle Against EchoStar

Unless you follow TiVo news like I do, you might not know that TiVo has brought EchoStar (the parent company of Dish Network) to court over a patent dispute. In the case of TiVo vs. EchoStar, TiVo alleges that EchoStar stole its technology which allows a user to record one show while watching another.

Several [...]