TiVo sues EchoStar. EchoStar retaliates by suing TiVo. Fast forward a year or so… EchoStar’s suit is stayed, pending analysis by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. ALVISO, Calif., Aug 28, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and the leader in television services for digital video … Read more
Never enough time… TiVo Series3 release date and pricing rumors abound. (HDBeat, PVRBlog) Learning to love the cable guy (yeah right). (NY Times) Cable companies lose round in CableCARD battle. (CNET) Toshiba HD DVD 2.0 firmware released. (HDBeat)
Speak Chinese? Me neither. But if we did, we might want to check out the relatively new tivousergroup.com: “Taiwan’s first unofficial TiVo website.” Like the TCF, they have a variety of forum categories — TiVo-specific, television content, and social. To those of you in Taiwan who’ve stumbled upon my TiVoToGo tutorials, welcome.
The TiVo Ministry pitched KidZone to clergy in Dallas and Atlanta this week while picking up the National Association of Evangelicals Seal of Approval. TiVo plans to visit other religious leaders later this month at the Islamic Center, Wiccan Church, and Temple Shalom.* Also this week, TiVo deployed on-box advertising to get the KZ word … Read more
Dave’s collection of ‘buds.
WPA is so long overdue, it’s not even funny… making TiVo’s support note that much more encouraging. They state they have WPA in the works and plan to initially offer it on their TiVo-branded wireless adapter. Yes! (Thanks, Jim B!)
Never enough time… Hands on with Hauppauge’s wireless media streamer. (SnapStream) DivX launches YouTube-alike. (GigaOm) The demise of Sony’s PSP. (TechLore) Netflix movie download servers found? (HackingNetflix) AOL signs deals to offer movie video downloads. (TechCrunch)
According to a blurb in Popular Mechanics (by way of epiZENter) Creative’s Zen Vision looks to be getting a refresh with larger screen, larger form, and larger hard drive option. I assume we’ll also be seeing some tweaks in the OS to better support newer services such as Vongo. My only complaint with the original … Read more