TiVo Blog Holiday Gift Guide

Here’s a list of items that any TiVo geek would love to receive this Holiday season.  Let me know if you think I should add an item to the list or if you’d like to voice your own opinion about one of these products.

Hardware

TiVo Glo Remote ($41.73):

A glo remote is a must of [...]

Video Of The Day: YouTube Live! (Badoop Show)

We couldn’t help but give our special TiVo stamp of approval to a few YouTube favorites… But you’re all great! What an amazing event!

Video Of The Day: Domino’s Pizza On TiVo

Test Driving TiVo Mobile

Thus far, I’ve been extremely happy with TiVo Mobile.  In fact, I’ve gone ahead and bookmarked the site directly on my iPod touch’s home screen.  Here’s several screenshots that I took earlier today while I was test driving the application.

Let me know what you think of TiVo Mobile and if you plan on using it [...]

TiVo To Offer A Mobile Friendly Website

Update 10/25 @ 10:42 PM:  m.tivo.com was not accessable when I first published this post however, the site is up and running now!  I’m going to post several screenshots in another post shortly….

TiVo just announced that they’re almost ready to launch a mobile friendly website that will allow you to schedule recordings from your cellphone [...]

Backup Your TiVo’s Recordings Using WeaKnees’ DVR Backup System

WeaKnees recently announced that they now offer a backup system for TiVo HD and TiVo HD XL DVRs.  According to their blog post, WeaKnees is able to backup your TiVo’s data through the use of two hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration.  The hard drives are bundled together inside an enclosure  which connects to [...]

Installing pyTiVo (Review To Follow)

I just finished installing pyTiVo on my Windows XP virtual machine (using VMware Fusion).  For those of you who don’t know, here’s a brief description of pyTiVo taken from the software’s official website:

pyTivo is both an HMO and GoBack server. Similar to TiVo Desktop pyTivo loads many standard video compression codecs and outputs mpeg2 video [...]

Video Of The Day: Economy Got You Down? (Badoop Show #10)

Your 401k got you feeling down? Stop crunching numbers and invest a little down time in some great entertainment options. HAPPY THANKSGIVING, BY THE WAY — We’ll be back week after next!

DVRupgrade Now Offers TiVo Repair Service

Earlier today, DVRupgrade announced that they now offer a life-extension (repair) service for most TiVo DVRs.  The service appears to be a great deal especially if you own a TiVo with a lifetime subscription.

For those of you who don’t know, I’m a big fan of DVRupgrade and the products they have to offer.  Back in [...]

Video Of The Day: Domino’s Pizza On TiVo

In case you missed it, TiVo and Domino’s have teamed up to allow you to order a pizza directly from your TiVo  DVR.  I haven’t had the time (or desire) to try out the new service however, my blogging buddy Dave Zatz has and he has posted the following video.  Let me know if you [...]