Technologizer

Comcast to Take TiVo National By Year End?

Monday, September 14, 2009

My eagle-eyed blogging partner Davis Freeberg caught this juicy nugget yesterday from a member of the ComcastCares Twitter support team: @ComcastMelissa @knolaust we are working on a more Tivo-esk experience. This is already being tested in the Boston area. hope to roll out na’l by end of yr As TiVo (TIVO) investors are aware, TiVo linked up with Comcast(CMCSA) to deliver their [...]

TiVo Loses More Customers, Sues AT&T and Verizon

Thursday, August 27, 2009

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TiVo’s quarterly call was a bit more dramatic than usual. While they continue to lose customers and innovate “at a very unhurried pace,” TiVo seeks a repeat DISH Network performance in going after AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) for infringement. Basically, TiVo’s current business model appears to be ad sales and patent trolling. Unlike TiVo’s successful [...]

Let’s Hope Best Buy Helps TiVo Sell More Boxes

Thursday, July 9, 2009

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Beloved-but-beleaguered DVR pioneer TiVo has found itself a ally: Best Buy. The two companies have struck a deal that will see TiVo boxes heavily marketed in Best Buy stores, reports Brad Stone in the New York Times. The relationship will put Napster (owned by Best Buy) on TiVo’s set-top boxes, and let Best Buy deliver [...]

Digeo Revives its (Less Sucky) Moxi HD DVR

Friday, December 12, 2008

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When I first ran into Digeo in the middle of 2007, the company had just begun to roll out its HD DVR to the public. They talked a good game and appeared ready to take on TiVo, who all but owns the set-top DVR market. However, within a matter of months, it became painfully clear [...]

TiVo HD XL: The Technologizer Review

Monday, December 8, 2008

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TiVo was kind enough to send us over a TiVo HD XL — its “super sized” DVR — for us to take a look at. Essentially the device is the successor to the Series 3 units, however it is enclosed in the TiVo HD casing. From here on out, it looks as if the TiVo [...]

It’s TiVo! On a PC! Thanks to Nero!

Monday, September 29, 2008

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Ten months ago, TiVo and Nero announced that they were working together to bring the TiVo interface to DVR software you could run on a PC. Then time passed, and I sort of forgot about it. Until today–when Nero announced Liquid TV | TiVo PC (yep, that’s the name, complete with | in the middle). [...]

The Big DVR in the Sky: Good News For You and Me?

Monday, August 4, 2008

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Here’s a major development in a tech legal tussle I wasn’t even following: The U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that it’s okay for Comcast to offer a digital video recorder service in which the DVRing is all done at its facilities and delivered over the cable system–rather than via a box with a hard [...]