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XFINITY On Demand Available On TiVo Premiere For SF Bay Area Comcast Customers
I’m a little behind the times on this one – last week was busy, my apologies. But better late than never with good news like this.It has been a long time coming, but TiVo Premiere using Comcast...
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TiVo Wants To Give You Gas
TiVo is running another sweepstakes, this one is dubbed TiVo’s Big Gas Sweepstakes. You can enter the sweepstakes via TiVo’s Facebook page, but it is probably easier to just do it through...
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The Elite Is Dead! Long Live The XL4!
What’s in a name? That which we call an Elite by any other name would still be a killer DVR. Drama aside, the TiVo Premiere Elite is no more. It has been replaced by the TiVo Premiere XL4. Which has...
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A Look At XFINITY On Demand On TiVo
A couple of weeks ago XFINITY On Demand support finally started rolling out on the TiVo Premiere for Comcast customers in the SF Bay Area. Today TiVo released a video look at the new feature. There...
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TiVo Touts Stop||Watch Over Nielsen
Last month I posted about TiVo’s apparent effort to promote their Stop||Watch ratings service to the industry. Well, it looks like the effort is ongoing. On Monday Alex Petrilli, senior manager of...
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The Final Curtain Falls On Aria
We learned back in February that things were not going well for Aria, EchoStar’s effort to produce a CableCARD DVR for the US market. CableOne, who have been trialing the system, was reported to have...
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David Tennant Catches Up With Virgin Media’s TiVo
Along with the launch of their new ‘Collections’, Virgin Media also adopted a new pitchman – David Tennant. They’d already released several videos, and now there’s another one. This one highlights the...
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Beantown Next Up For TiVo XFINITY On Demand
The roll out of XFINITY On Demand for TiVo customers in the San Francisco Bay Area is now complete and it seems to be a great success. The new feature cleanly integrates XFINITY On Demand into the...
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Woot! – TiVo Premiere DVR Just $44.99
Today’s Woot! offer is a great deal on a refurbished TiVo Premiere DVR, model TCD746320 – only $44.99 + $5 S&H. This is the 320GB version of the TiVo Premiere, capable of holding up to 45 hours of...
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Sorry For The Silence – And The Cable Show Next Week
I’ve been quiet lately, sorry about that. This site is basically a one-man show and a bunch of stuff came together to suck up my time these past couple of weeks. My wife and I traded off illnesses for...
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TiVo To Announce 1QFY13 Results May 30
TiVo will announced their financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2013, which ended April 30th, on May 30th. There will be a conference call and webcast at 14:00PT/17:00ET.
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More David Tennant For Virgin Media Collections, TiVo Doing Well In The UK
Another ad has been released for Virgin Media’s recently launched Collections service offerings, featuring David Tennant as their spokesperson. This one focuses on the high-speed broadband offerings,...
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TiVo Stream and IP STB Coming To MSOs and Retail This Year
Back in February I posted about TiVo’s planned transcoding box and IP STB thin-client, without too many details. Well, The Cable Show is in Boston this week and I’m attending, and today I met with...
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TiVo’s Cable Show Booth Unveils Two New Content Partners
It pays to observe carefully, you never know what you might spot. Like this photo that I snapped of something I noticed in TiVo’s booth at The Cable Show 2012 today. It is the kind of thing your eyes...
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TiVo And Pace Announce The Pace XG1 Multi-Tuner Video Gateway
Well, that was fast. It was only February when TiVo announced a partnership with Pace to bring TiVo’s software to Pace’s hardware, and today they unveiled the first fruit of that partnership, the Pace...
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More Information On The TiVo Stream And IP STB
Since I made my post about the forthcoming TiVo Stream and IP STB last night I’ve been getting a lot of questions, and there were a few things I wondered about myself after I had some time to digest...
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More TiVo Tidbits From The Cable Show
While most of the TiVo news out of The Cable Show revolves around the TiVo Stream and IP STB, and the Pace XG1, I did talk to TiVo about a variety of issues. So this is a bit of a grab bag to collect...
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Boston TiVo Users Get Comcast XFINITY On Demand Next Week!
I couldn’t get a date earlier this week at The Cable Show, but apparently Comcast knew and just wasn’t saying – Boston gets XFINITY On Demand next week. That means TiVo owners with Series4 Premiere...
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TiVo To Present At The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Strategic Decisions...
TiVo President and CEO Tom Rogers will be presenting at the Twenty-Eighth Annual Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Strategic Decisions Conference 2012 on May 31, the day after they announce their 1QFY13...
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Comcast XFINITY On Demand Available To Boston TiVo Users NOW!
We were a little premature with the announcement of XFINITY On Demand support for Boston area TiVo users ‘next week’ two weeks ago. Last week came and went without a launch. But it is a week later and...
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TiVo And PayPal Team For Remote Control Purchasing
I’ve been saying for years that TiVo should add a way to make purchases right from the system. For years they’ve had product Showcases, advertisements in the UI, Interactive Tags during ads, etc....
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VideoNuze TiVo Cable Show Video Interview
The Cable Show website has posted an interview with Jeff Klugman, TiVo’s Senior Vice President for products, filmed last month at the show. Actually, I’m pretty sure I saw this interview being shot...
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TiVo Targets Smaller MSOs & Confirms Canal Digital Deal Is Dead
Back in March I spotted a news article that seemed to indicate TiVo’s deal with Conax to bring the TiVo experience to Canal Digital’s Scandinavian satellite customers might have fizzled out. And last...
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TiVo Industry Bloggers Talk DVR Habits & Predicting Box Office
Over at MediaBizBloggers, TiVo’s Vice President of Audience Insights, Greg DePalma, talks about the DVR habit. It is a short post, but I found it interesting. He talks about the power of habits; how...
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TiVo App For Android Tablets Finally Released!
When TiVo updated their iOS & Android apps back in March, they said the long-awaited TiVo app for Android Tablets would be available in the ‘spring’. Well, it looks like they missed their target –...
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