Cord-cutting may be an unproven myth, but new research suggests that people's television habits are changing in a way you wouldn't expect: Only a third of all television viewing these days happens "live," without the Internet, TiVo or some other form of recording or time shifting.
It looks like all of those people scooping up new iPhones and Androids are embracing video in a big way—a new Nielsen poll reports that 36% more mobile subscribers watched video on their phones this year than last year. Also popular: watching TV without commercials, which would explain the 31% jump in DVR usage over [...]
Yama-hama, that’s a whole lotta TiVo. The company that put digital video recording on the map has just released a monster in the TiVo Premiere Elite, a $500 set-top box that can record four different shows at once and stores up to 300 hours of high-definition video. If you’re of a more nerdacious persuasion, that’s [...]
Last November, TiVo added new pricing options to its DVR service and hardware, giving users a range of choices on monthly costs and up-front commitments.
Dish Network and former parent company EchoStar have settled their long-running patent lawsuit with TiVo by agreeing to pay the company $500 million for unlawful infringement of TiVo’s “Time Warp” DVR technology.
It’s not just ESPN that discounts the threat of audiences abandoning television for the internet; in fact, CBS’ research chief David Poltrack is even going so far as to say that he thinks that television isn’t getting full recognition of the audiences it continues to draw in. Talking at the UBS Global Media and Communications [...]
TiVo subscribers looking for a more streamlined way to manage their Season Pass shows can now do so via TiVo’s website.
Everyone’s favorite DVR fanatics have just announced a revolutionary new product to compliment the rest of their illustrious line of goods, the TiVo Slide Remote. The QWERTY slider connects via Bluetooth and is available starting today for $89.99 on the TiVo website. Best Buy will begin carrying the remote this weekend.
I am really late to the party, but since I saw my first series in 2007, I’ve been crazy about Doctor Who. My Netflix queue is almost entirely old Tom Baker stories, and all four New Who series. (The remainder is mostly MST3K, if anyone was wondering what kind of stuff I like to watch [...]
When you think of TiVo you think of recording television shows, right? In a move that seems odd at first but begins to make more and more sense as you sit on a pier bench gazing out over the vast ocean, alone with your thoughts, this recently announced Best Buy/TiVo partnership might just work.
