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TiVo Exiting the Hardware Business? Not So Fast, Says TiVo
Rumors of its box’s demise may be premature.
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Review: TiVo’s Roamio DVRs Stream to iPhones and iPads
The venerable TV box gets its biggest update in years.
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TiVo Stream: Put Your TiVo on Your iOS Devices
I watch TV on more devices than ever, from more sources than ever. But when I’m in my living room in front of my 42″ Vizio HDTV, almost all the TV I watch is TiVo. The DVR that’s synonymous with the DVR remains a great way to …
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Coming Soon: TiVo Streaming for iPhones and iPads
I do an awful lot of “TV” watching on my iPad these days. Yet I also remain devoted to my TiVo DVR box, which is connected to the HDTV in my living room. So TiVo’s upcoming TiVo Stream — a gizmo that lets you stream shows …
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TiVo Gets Comcast’s Xfinity on Demand
I have a gazillion boxes of various sorts connected to the two TVs in our household, but the longest-serving one is my TiVo DVR. I got it when I moved into my present home and signed up for Comcast cable TV — and I still …
Only One-Third of TV-Watching in the U.S. Is Realtime
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 nowadays happens “live,” without the Internet, TiVo …
New $500 ‘TiVo Premiere Elite’ Records Four TV Shows at Once
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 four digital tuners …
Best Buy’s Connected TiVo TVs Are for People Trying to Quit TV
Best Buy has officially rolled out its “Insignia” house-brand line of TiVo-equipped TVs. These isn’t quite the same TiVo, though: This TiVo isn’t capable of recording anything. Sounds pretty dumb, right?
Dumb like a fox.
You’re basically getting a nicely-outfitted TV (LED backlighting, 1080p resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, two-year …
TiVo Changes Pricing. Again.
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.
Turns out, that was too complicated, so now TiVo is stripping down to just a couple choices for service, Zatz Not Funny reports. Starting May 19, service will cost $20 per month with …
TiVo, Dish Network Reach $500,000 Settlement over DVR Patent Suit
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.
The settlement follows a costly legal battle that’s not only seen Dish faced with a court order to shut down all its DVRs …
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How to Tell Me You Let Somebody Steal My Personal Information
I’ve been getting a lot of urgent messages from major companies I do business with lately. Urgent messages telling me that information I gave them has been stolen by unknown parties.
Yup, I’m not only a PlayStation Network member–and therefore a victim of the current Sony security breach–but also a customer of at least three …