Seen that? - Some TiVo Shareholders live in Denial

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Some TiVo Shareholders live in Denial The Digital TV Weblog

The value of TiVo's shares declined over 6% in heavy trading last Thursday, after Reuters reported that directv CEO Chase Carey had said that his company would cease marketing and promoting TiVo's DVR service as soon as it launches a DVR of its own later this year. I am surprised that there are still TiVo shareholders that did not know that this was inevitable. DirecTV's "DirecTV with TiVo" service currently makes [...] Read More


TiVo and Direct TV Stike New Deal The Digital TV Weblog

It appears that TiVo is in the process of getting away from content service offerings and is focusing more on their DVR units by renewing their relationship with cable satellite TV provider, Direct TV. According to a recent Reuters article, TiVo is developing a new digital video recorder for satellite TV provider DirecTV with the hopes of boosting the number of subscribers using their service. Due to an 'intellectual property [...] Read More


Schedule your TiVo from your cell phone The Digital TV Weblog

TiVo subscribers will soon be able to program television recordings straight from cell phones using the Verizon Wireless network. Dubbed TiVo Mobile, it's also the latest feature the company is introducing to help differentiate itself from the growing number of rival DVR offerings from cable and satellite TV operators. [...] Read More


WD Intros My DVR Expander for TiVo On Storage

Western Digital this week released My DVR Expander, an external hard drive specifically designed for use with TiVo DVRs. Two versions are available: a 1 TB drive for $200 (or $167.70 on Amazon), and a 500 GB drive for $130 (or $112.09 on Amazon). "The unit is designed to work with TiVo Series 3 and TiVo HD digital video recorders," writes Crave's Dong Ngo. "Apart from TiVo, it has also been [...] Read More


TiVo Coming to Microsoft Windows Mobile Based Devices The Wired Home Weblog

TiVo has really done a great job lately of partnering with some real powerhouses. They've done it again with a new partnership with Microsoft. According to the press release: For the first time, travelers will have the ability to transfer their favorite shows stored on their TiVo® Series2™ Digital Video Recorders to a Windows XP-based PC for transfer to and playback on Windows Mobile-based devices such as Portable Media Centers and [...] Read More