Unfortunately I wasn’t able to have my Comcast cable and Internet service migrated on Saturday (as they originally suggested), but the Cradlepoint 3G router with Sprint AirCard has ensured continued TiVoCast downloads, CoD4 on Xbox Live, and web surfing (work, too). The Airport Extreme is running in bridge mode, so I don’t have to change … Read more
Toyota’s got you (me) covered on TiVo with a $5 Amazon gift card bribe in exchange for…? I assume whatever email they send containing a coupon code will also contain Toyota Corolla advertising. Most of the spam I receive doesn’t offer anything worthwhile, so I’ll take the cash: The first 5000 people who do this … Read more
Earlier this week Roxio released Toast 9, the only officially supported TiVoToGo decryption method on the Mac. I raised some concerns that v8 still seemed to have difficulty with some content transcoding leading to audio/video sync issues and wondered if v9 corrected or inherited these issues. I’ve exchanged a few emails with TiVo and Roxio … Read more
TiVo Deskstop 2.6 has arrived right on schedule: TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced TiVo® subscribers can now watch video content from the Web directly on their television sets. Through an updated version of TiVoâs Desktop Plus PC software, users can now … Read more
Roxio has released Toast 9 but, as my headline questions, does it work… with TiVo? Last fall both Toast 8 and Popcorn 3 began experiencing issues in conjunction with TiVo’s Fall Software update. As I mentioned in early February, the Roxio team seemed to think they had a solution for the TiVoToGo file conversion audio/video … Read more
Thanks to jon, Peter, and Alex for the TiVo referrals yesterday! Seems like a good reason to pull the trigger on some of these rewards points and give away a TiVo Glo Remote (MSRP $50). If you want in on the giveaway, please leave one comment. The catch is that you must provide a link … Read more
So maybe the official headline is YouTube Coming To TiVo… But the interesting news here is TiVo Series3 and TiVo HD unit exclusivity – sorry, Seres2 owners. We already know these newer devices have chips capable of decoding more than just MPEG-2 video, and perhaps TiVo is getting ready to flip the switch “later this … Read more
If you’re looking for ~6 hours of premium content for your PC or TiVo, Amazon Unbox is giving away the first 15 episodes of HBO’s “In Treatment.” I assume HBO is bankrolling this promotion in hopes that we love the series and end up subscribing to service via our cable or satellite provider, and/or they’re … Read more