Java Home Media Option for TiVo
As I wrote previously, I purchased the TiVo “Home Media Option”:http://www.tivo.com/4.9.asp on my TiVo Series 2 box. I love it — it has connected my home PC with my TV and stereo system in exactly the way I wanted.
That said, the TiVo “desktop”:http://www.tivo.com/4.9.4.1.asp software that is installed on the PC (which “publishes” the music and [...]
TiVo Series 2 — Testing all patience (and it’s still cool)
I remarked the other day that I got the Toshiba Media Server for Christmas. It’s a TiVo Series 2 machine as well as a progressive scan DVD player. And, in spite of what I’m about to write, it’s a great machine. I love it.
Of course, that I haven’t thrown it out a ten story window [...]
TiVo innovates again
Just experienced a first with TiVo — while watching tonight’s Trading Spaces “$100k episode”:http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2003-09-30-trading-spaces_x.htm, an ad for the “Cadillac SRX”:http://www.cadillac.com/cadillacjsp/models/gallery.jsp?model=srx. While the ad played, a TiVo message appeared on the screen: “Push thumbs up for more info.” Being me, of course I did (to my wife’s chagrine, who just wanted to watch the show). And [...]
TiVo Sells Ad Skipping Data To Marketers
TiVo Sells Ad Skipping Data To Marketers
LA Times: Tivo to Sell Data on Ad Skipping to Marketers
TiVo has a wealth of information culled from its users detailing their ad skipping behavior. Today, TiVo will begin selling that information gleaned from its 700,000 users to help advertisers understand what gets skipped and why. Knowing this [...]
TiVo wish lists
For any TiVo users out there, set up a wish list for “Howard Dean” in the “news” category. I set mine up about two weeks ago - it’s picked up every interview and media appearance since then. Yet another reason why TiVo makes TV watchable…
Panasonic DVR/DVD
This is the first entrant into what will surely be a bigger retail category: the combination DVR/DVD player. DVR is digital video recorder - it’s essentially a bare-bones TiVo (it can do the live TV pause, record programs, etc. but doesn’t include the recommendation feature, program guides, etc.) coupled with a DVD player and a [...]
Can TiVo Go Prime Time?
Great study in this month’s Fast Company about TiVo’s attempts to create a sustainable business model. What’s most valuable in the article is the dissection of TiVo’s efforts at shifting its business plan in response to changing market conditions.
I’ve had TiVo for just over 18 months, and am definitely one of the “rabid fans” the [...]
Digital Video Recorders - Changing the Way You Watch TV
Interesting reports from today’s NY Times about TiVo and ReplayTV:
TV Magic, Made More Magical Still. Imagine a gizmo so amazing that everyone who bought it turned into an evangelical fanatic, extolling its virtues to anyone within earshot. Such a machine exists. By David Pogue. [New York Times: Technology]
David reviews the new Replay 4500, which sounds [...]
TiVo Isn’t Going to Kill Advertising
Study: PVRs Not Necessarily the Death of TV Advertising: Ad Age, the leading advertising industry magazine, brings word of a recent marketing study that finds that PVRs aren’t as bad for television advertising as some (cough* Kellner*cough) would have you believe. [LawMeme: Legal Bricolage for a Technological Age]
My own experience with TiVo mirrors many of [...]
Tina Fey and TiVo: A Match Made in Heaven
My wife and I agree on one thing (well, more than that - but we agree on one thing regarding technology): TiVo is the single best piece of technology we’ve ever bought. Talk to anyone who has one (or to folks like Jenny, who bought the ReplayTV device), and you can’t get us to shut [...]
