as someone who lives in the united states its easy to forget that tivo isnt available everywhere. over the last few years weve seen tivo support expanded to canada mexico china and pretty soon australia but tivos international expansion hasnt come without its fair share of head fakes.
early on in their history tivo tried to bring the tivolution to britain but the initiative proved too costly an... [Show More]
because my comcast motorola dvr is crap. first it cut off the end of the super bowl how does that happen and now its latency issue is out of control. we were watching american idol watching it slightly delayed to skip the commercials and it locked up and fastforwarded all the way to live. then we hit the back button a few times which kicked in three minutes later replaying the same commercial... [Show More]
tivo tivo ceo tom rogers sits down for a qa at bear stearns annual media conference. live notes
308 after a few minutes of a simpsons episode the qa starts.
309 talking about echostar war. based on what we know it appears that having implemented something wtihout a discernable difference was done with a workaround that would have had to be extremely novel. we feel really confident that full impa... [Show More]
just stuffed in the headlines today is this little gem that could single handily give satellite radio the push they need to hit critical mass.
sirius and xm said on monday they would offer a subscription package priced 46 percent below current levels and would also let customers buy packages of their favorite channels after their proposed merger.
the planned a la carte programming would be avail... [Show More]
ive always been a bit of a strange bird when it comes to the things that i look forward to. most people will get excited when their favorite tv show comes out of summer reruns or when a band they liked in college is coming to town. sometimes people will even line up overnight just to have the opportunity to see an event that they really care about. while i like entertainment as much as the nex... [Show More]
the three major search engines yahoo msn and google recognize video as an evolving and increasingly popular phenomenon on the web.
but what have these three beasty corporations done to secure their stake in the online video market
read on
yahoo and video
in may 2005 yahoo launched its video search engine which also integrated video sharing allowing users to upload their own video... [Show More]
comcast recently began to insert advertisements in their onscreen program guide.comcast obviously decided to do this to increase their profits. the problem is that the ads are intrusive in that they remove useful content from the program guide to make room for the ads. in addition when you scroll down the program guide the last entry on every page is an ad and you have to click past the ad to get ... [Show More]
forrester recently did a survey where they asked consumers an open ended question about how they felt towards their dvr and 20 of the respondents used the word love to describe their relationship with the gadget.
when a consumer electronic device can generate this type of an emotional response its safe to assume that for better or worse the technology is going to have an impact. on a positive ... [Show More]
one of the popular thoughts is that small is the new big.a although manyarespected blogging experts say it is it really true that small niche blogging can be wildly successful and profitablea a few quotes to think about
that is the great thing about niche startups no market can ever be too small.
niche blogging is the way to go.
were not interested in the hits were interested in the best nich... [Show More]
the digital video blog i used to write for dvguru has been axed by its corporate overlords which in my obviously less than objective opinion was a shortsighted mistake. i will now write about why this is the case i will take some time to further inflate my own ego and i will come up with an angle that couldve undoubtedly saved the site.
given the ongoing explosion of video content online youtube... [Show More]
nbc recently started putting more of its tv shows available online including heroes 30 rock and friday night lights. nbc has found that these online tv episodes are extremely popular and many people are using the nbc rewind service as their own personal dvr for nbc shows except you cant skip the ads nbc has to love that.
some people are even watching a tv episode they saw on tv again online... [Show More]
the cable telecommunications association for marketing ctam ran a study where they looked at pvr usuage in the us and in canada and determined that only 5 of all canadians are currently using pvrs and only 38 were even familiar with how they worked. when they surveyed american consumers the number of people who have pvrs jumps up 15 but even at that level its still a pretty small number given ho... [Show More]
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tivos transformation from a adskippers best friend to an ad agencys biggest asset is nearly complete as the firms stopwatch system is aimed to provide secondbysecond viewing data which nielsen has refused to offer thus far. while the company went public about its intentions to become an adfriendly platform awhile back it looks like the time has come for its voyeuris... [Show More]
i was disappointed rto read yesterday that aol made the decision to shutdown the pvrwire blog. pvrwire well miss you a few of pvrwires recent posts that linked to the snapstream blog
beyond tv skins customize the look of beyond tv with themes
hauppauge adding ir blasters to usb tv tuners
fun with multiple tv tuners
getting a slingbox to work with beyondtv
pvr wire podcast 12 111606
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while peertopeer sharing certainly gets its fair share of critics the sharing caring approach to distributing media definitely has its useful and legal benefits and now nds has announced two new product enhancements of synamedia metro the nds iptv middleware solution which looks to bring p2p technology to the dvr. distributed dvr allows for any hard drive on the hom... [Show More]
the yankee group may be predicting that tivo wont be around in 2010 but apparently citigroup doesnt share the same dismal outlook. according to an 8k filing made this afternoon tivo announced that theyve negotiated a new 50 million revolving line of credit with the bank. the line of credit will remain in effect until tivo terminates the arrangement violates the covenants or january 25th 2010 whi... [Show More]
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theres nothing that dvr owners like more than a good commercial so tivo subscribers will be overjoyed to learn that the company has once again begun overlaying advertisements to entertain viewers during those interminable seconds it takes to fast forward from one tv segment to another. wait a minute thats not right. theres nothing that dvr owners hate more than co... [Show More]
yahoo has had its eyes on entering the living room for some time and is in a much better position to do so when it compares itself to google. its got a good partnersip with tivo pc dvr software successful internet video services and a deal with akimbo.
yahoo and tivo
yahoo already has a strong partnership with tivo with a number of yahoo services such as yahoo weather and yahoo photos availa... [Show More]
american users of tivo series 2 digital video recorders are now able to get two more internet tv channels through the tivocast service providing they have their tivo box plugged into the internet.
the two new channels are golfspan and lx.tv which you can also watch online now. to learn more about tivocast and how to use it on your series 2 tivo click here.
golfspan
as the name suggest go... [Show More]
davis freeberg submits with ces now well under way there continues to be a steady stream of product announcements still coming out of las vegas. with so many new gadgets its difficult to gauge how popular these devices will really be but clearly we are seeing a great deal of interest in bringing the capabilities of the internet to the tv.
opentv optv shows off high definition iptv opentv is pr... [Show More]
dvrs with seagate drives inside hosted on zooomr photo by thomas hawk
with ces now well under way there continues to be a steady stream of product announcements still coming out of las vegas. with so many new gadgets its difficult to gauge how popular these devices will really be but clearly we are seeing a great deal of interest in bringing the capabilities of the internet to the tv.
open tv s... [Show More]
time for hdtv hosted on zooomr photo by thomas hawk
people have been talking about it for weeks and finally ces has arrived. its the blogospheres equivalent of a star trek convention. between the booth babes and sharps 108 hdtv geeks have plenty to drool over. with so much hot technology being released at once its hard to cover it all but here are a few of the highlights from the first day of ... [Show More]
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apparently sideshow isnt the only vista attraction trying to garner attention as the project formerly known as nemo has gone and hit beta picking up a more politically correct name along the way. now dubbed windows live for tv this flavor of windows live is made to play nice with your tv through windows vista media center and adds an expansive inter... [Show More]
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