TiVo Butler: Yet Another TiVoToGo Mac Client

Recently I stumbled upon yet another TiVoToGo client for the Mac called TiVo Butler.  In the short amount of time that I’ve used this app I’ve already fallen in love with it.  Unlike some of the other TiVoToGo Mac clients, TiVo Butler organizes your TiVo’s recordings into groups so that you can easily select which [...]

June 27th, 2008 | Category: Mac, TiVo, TiVo Software, TiVoToGo | 6 comments

Gizmodo: History Of The TiVo Remote

In case you missed it, Gizmodo.com has posted a great article which talks about the history of the TiVo remote and how the remote that we all know and love has come about.  The article was produced in cooperation with TiVo and Paul Newby (the individual who helped create our beloved “peanut” remote).

In my opinion, [...]

June 21st, 2008 | Category: TiVo, TiVo Hardware, TiVo Remote, TiVo/PVR | 13 comments

TiVo Blog Contest: Win A TiVo Headband

Update 06/24 @ 11:42PM: And the winner is….Nate L.  Thanks to all those who participated and stay tuned for more giveaways.

Here’s your chance to win a TiVo headband so that you can impress your friends and family with your devotion to TiVo.  To win the headband all you have to do is leave a comment [...]

June 17th, 2008 | Category: TiVo, TiVo Contest, TiVo/PVR, TiVoBlog.com Site News | 27 comments

Video Of The Day: Adding Additional Storage To My TiVo HD (My DVR Expander Drive)

Here’s a video that I captured while I installed my DVR Expander drive ($174.99). As you can see from the video, the installation was extremely easy. Thanks to this device, my TiVo can now record up to 86 hours of HD content!.

Once again, I would like to thank this site’s readers [...]

June 17th, 2008 | Category: My DVR Expander, TiVo, TiVo Hardware, Video Of The Day, eSATA | 5 comments

Unboxing The My DVR Expander Drive

Earlier today, I finally got around to installing my Western Digital DVR Expander Drivewhich I received via the now defunct TiVo rewards program. As expected, the installation process was extremely easy. Thanks to this drive, I can now record up to 86 hours of high definition content on my TiVoHD (before I installed [...]

June 15th, 2008 | Category: My DVR Expander, TiVo, TiVo HD, TiVo Hardware, TiVo Rewards, eSATA | Leave a comment

TiVo Blog Feedback Roundup

Over the past couple of days I’ve received the following feedback via this site’s “contact me” form.  Rather then answer each of these questions with a personal email, I’ve decided to post my response here so that hopefully it will benefit somebody else.  If you’d like to add anything to my response please feel free [...]

June 9th, 2008 | Category: Series3, TiVo, TiVo Hardware, TiVo Help, TiVo/PVR | 5 comments

TiVo And The “Social Web”

Louis Gray (louisgray.com) has posted a great article which points out a number of actions that TiVo should take inorder to improve its postion in the “social web” revolution (think digg, facebook, etc).  I like a lot of these suggestions however, the fourth suggestion really peeked my interest.  Wouldn’t it be great if TiVo made [...]

June 3rd, 2008 | Category: TiVo | 6 comments

Amazon.com Samsung TiVoHD Deal Gets Even Better

I just received an email from Amazon.com letting me know about the Samsung/TiVoHD dealwhich I blogged about a couple of days ago.  At first I didn’t pay much attention to the email however, after reading through it I noticed that Amazon is offering three months of TiVo service for free along with free “White Glove [...]

June 1st, 2008 | Category: Deal Of The Day, TiVo, TiVo HD, TiVo Hardware, TiVo/PVR | 2 comments