Spy Toothbrush Hopes to Capture Erotic Moments, Will Probably End with Embarrassing Ones

Chinese manufacturers keep working hard to push the world forward into a hole of crappy amateur porn, one spy pinhole camera at a time. But when they add one to an Oral-B electric toothbrush, you know things won't end well. More »

802.11n Wi-Fi Adapter For Tivo Lands At The FCC

An AN0100 802.11n wireless adapter for Tivo is up on the FCC's site. While there's not much information on what the add-on will bring to the DVR, the promise of increased bandwidth suggests more robust network streaming for Tivos in the future. Here's to hoping. [Engadget]

The Cell Regza (PS3 TV) Sorts Shows by Similarity

The Cell Regza is Toshiba's upcoming uberTV containing the Cell processor (you know from the PS3). After recording 8 shows at once, you'll have a lot of content to watch. But it won't be listed like TV Guide. More »

BlackBerry-Toting TiVo Addicts: You Are No Longer Without an App

TiVo's tardy BlackBerry app may look a little barebones—and what BlackBerry app doesn't, honestly?— but it's a far sight faster than the DVRs' mobile web interface, and it's free. More »

AT&T's iPhone App Brings Remote DVR Scheduling To U-Verse Customers

If you happen to be a U-Verse customer, AT&T has an app for you. AT&T Remote Mobile Access allows iPhone / iPod Touch users to control their DVR remotely. More »

TiVo May Be Coming To Time Warner Cable

According to Bloomberg, TiVo is preparing to make a push into more living rooms, including Time Warner Cable subscribers, now that a federal court ruling backs the company's digital-recording patent. More »

Moxi Steps To TiVo, Adding Rhapsody Music and PlayOn for Netflix, Hulu and More

Digeo today brings its Moxi HD DVR in range of TiVo with some capabilities it was sorely lacking in a big way, including DLNA 1.0 for home streaming, and PlayOn for grabbing major net video. More »

DirecTV's iPhone App Browses, Searches and Sets Recordings

The DirecTV iPhone App is available now, and can let you browse 2 weeks of shows, set recordings and control more than one DVR in the house. And, it's free. More »

DVR/BitTorrent Combo BlobBox Appears, Pirates and Studio Execs Shudder

One of Chen's deepest, darkest fantasies is a set-top box that records shows and pulls in torrents at the same time. Italian hardware firm Telsey and software maker TVBlob just made it—the BlobBox—a reality. More »

DVR Remote Is Another, Better Way to Control TiVo With Your iPhone

Not long after we saw the App Store's first TiVo remote for the iPhone, we see its second, DVR Remote. More »

The 'Barack' Obaba Spycam Belt Buckle

That's not a typo. You can celebrate the inauguration the old fashioned way, with a spycam/DVR belt buckle featuring a visage that in no way resembles our future President. More »

Question of the Day: How Far Back Do Your TiVo Shows Go?

According to CNN, you are not the only one who may have "TiVo guilt." Plenty of people keep shows on there forever. So, how far back do your unwatched TiVo / DVR shows go? More »

Use Your Cellphone To Control Your Box With TiVo Mobile Website

Adding to an ever expanding list of new features like pizza ordering and Netflix streaming, TiVo's now bringing you the option of SlingBox-esque control of your box on your cellphone. Their new mobile site, m.tivo.com, allows both subscribers and non-subscribers to browse television shows, schedule recordings to their TiVo box and possibly find new shows worth hitting the record button for. According to TiVo, the site is optimized for all cellphones and cellphone browsers, so anybody with internet connectivity can use it. M.tivo.com is in beta beginning today and will be available on a wider scale within a few weeks. More »

TiV-o'-lantern Scares the Commercials Away

The specific story varies, but as legend has it, the original Jack-o'-Lantern came about as a punishment after a crafty gent named Jack played a trick on the Devil. We don't know if TiVo was trapped after their similar stunt, giving man a way to skip past pesky commercials before advertisers sealed the company's soul in a pumpkin, but it sure makes for a spooky bedtime story. [Thanks Dang!]

DVRPics iPhone App Beams Your Photos to TiVo

It's not going to change the world of iPhone apps or TiVo forever, but the $1 DVRPics app is a neat, cheap, little addition to the Apple App Store library nevertheless. The purpose is pretty straightforward: The app displays the photos on your iPhone or iPod touch on your TiVo. Features are bare bones for now, notes TiVo Blog, but the apps's developer, Chris Lundie, wants us to know that the ability to make slideshows in advance is coming. Also, Lundie notes that Apple's draconian practices do not allow direct access to the photo library. This is the reason why DVRPics can’t make all your photos available to the DVR at once, he said. [App Store via TiVo Blog]

Tivo and Echostar DVR Patent Saga Ends With $104 Million Payout to Tivo

After getting resoundly swatted in court by Tivo time and again for walking all over its patent for a "multimedia time warping system" (cool retro-future speak for a DVR), Echostar (now just Dish) is finally admitting defeat once and for all. Following its loss to TiVo in a US Appeals court earlier this year, Echostar appealed to the Supreme Court, which just decided not to hear the case, leaving Echostar nowhere else to turn. More »

Nero LiquidTV Software Builds a Whole TiVo into Your PC

Possible-new-interface-haver TiVo and Nero, the old CD burning guys, have announced a new piece of software that will give your PC all of the capabilities of a TiVo box, allowing it to tune in to and record television through TiVo's familiar interface. The announcement was a long time coming, as TiVo and Nero announced their curious partnership almost a year ago. More »

Neuros Hackable Open-Source Set-Top Box Updated: OSD2

Neuros has taken another stab at the open-source set-top box market, and created the "Open Source Device 2." The original OSD was aimed at developers, but ended up finding use as a DVR. The new OSD2 has a more conventional box, can encode video at 720p in MPEG-4 format, H.264 D1 resolution (that's DVD quallity) from an analog video source, upscale video to 1080i or transcode it for a PMP. It's got a serial port, IRBlaster port, connections for Wi-Fi antenna, USB, LAN, HDMI, composite video and stereo audio, and even packs an SD port. It's shipped with a Linux-based firmware stack, but is completely open to user OS hacking. Available now for $250. [Linuxdevices]

TiVo Coming to BlackBerries, Eventually

BlackBerry manufacturer RIM and TiVo manufacturer TiVo have teamed up to offer what sounds like SlingBoxesque mobile entertainment on RIM phones. There aren't many details now, but the press release explains: More »

AT&T U-Verse Update Now Allowing DVR on 8 TV Sets At Once

In an attempt to one-up Verizon's FiOS, AT&T has finally rolled out a new software update for its U-verse service that'll let subscribers watch recorded shows on up to eight different TV sets. FiOS only offers multiroom DVR for seven different televisions currently. The feature is already available in San Francisco and nearby subscriber cities, but ought to be rolled out to the rest of the Bay Area this week. While I'm sure this is a welcome change for anyone who's been using U-Verse, I doubt being able to DVR on one extra set will help AT&T gain the ground it so desperately craves. If it really wants to catch up with FiOS, maybe it should hurry up and bring us Microsoft's IPTV feature set already. The press release is after the jump. More »

Niveus Media DVRs Will Tease Your TiVo, Take His Lunch Money

Most of us will be happy with consumer-priced stock DVRs or TiVos. But for those who are looking for something better for the ego, Niveus has just revealed their updated media centers, the Rainier, Pro Series and Denali Limited Edition. All three lines support 8 CableCards and 10 Media Center Extenders. The Rainier is modest, storing 1TB of data with no fans. The rack-mountable Pro Series continues the fanless trend and packs 4TB of storage, 32GB SSD, Intel Core i7 processor and Nvidia Series 9 graphics card (for when 1080P video just isn't enough). The Denali Series (pictured) is similar to the Pro Series, but maxes at 2TB of storage to make room for a Blu-ray drive. These monster media centers will be available in Q4 2008. More »

TiVo Auto-Delete Flag Returns (Thank God It Was Only Star Trek)

In case you didn't already know, broadcasters can slip "flags" into TV shows telling your DVR to not record it or to delete it when it hits an expiration date. TiVo users last had a run-in with the auto-delete flag a couple years ago (Media Center users had a more recent taste), but according to a reader of PVR Blog, it looks like it's back and haunting Star Trek fans. More »

PlayStation 3 PlayTV is Non-Transferable After All

When we heard that PS3 PlayTV DVR recordings would be transferable to PSPs and PCs, we we're absolutely thrilled, proclaiming, "For the first time in a long time, we want to grab Sony and kiss them square on the lips." Well, put away the Binaca, because Sony has taken back their promise for undisclosed reasons. More »

Dealzmodo: Free Home Media HD-DVR For a Year With Verizon FiOS

Sign up for some sweet, sweet fiber pipes via Verizon FiOS between now and October 4th and you can bag a year's worth of free Home Media multi-room DVR—the nifty recorder that can play three different saved shows on up to six TVs simultaneously, with individual pause/play controls on each set. You know, the one Kevin Garnett likes so much. More »

Court Rejects Studios and Networks' Copyright Beef With Cloud-Storage DVRs

Waaay back in 2006, Cablevision planned to roll out a DVR which stored shows on Cablevision's servers rather than on hard disk inside your set-top box. As they are wont to do, the studios and networks saw an opportunity to suck more revenue out of the system, citing obscure copyright conditions which call for fees when content is "retransmitted" in any way. Now, a judge has smacked down their suit to block remote-storage DVRs, meaning DVRs in the cloud could see the light of day after all. More »

MythTV's MyMote iPhone Remote App

The idea of controlling your DVR via your iPhone is nothing new, but this MythTV iPhone remote allows Linux DVR users to get in on the fun of using their phones as visual remotes. It's got a real-time program guide so you can easily set recordings, plus the standard channel and volume buttons to flip around channels with. The only thing we have to complain about is that the UI is fairly ugly and not refined at all, but it's bearable. Unfortunately all of us here use either TiVo or Media Center or the cheap set-top-box provided from our Cable company, so we can't test it out. Let us know how it works for you. [eHomeUpgrade]

TBS, I Can Pause My Own TV, Thanks

TBS has opted to not only advertise during television shows through those pesky lower third banners, but to go so far as to pause the show you are watching to do it. A particularly offensive case of interstitial marketing, needless to say, it's not going to do wonders for the network's ratings. Oh, and for the TBS marketing gurus high-fiving right now and claiming that any press is good press, we have two words for you: Michael. Jackson. [kottke via bbGadgets]

Australia Gets TiVo Minus the Subscription Fees

The Seven Media Group is so excited to distribute TiVos in Australia before the Beijing Olympics (and worried about fierce regional competition) that they're actually offering the boxes with full service sans subscription fees. If you ask the average non-TiVo user why he/she uses an alternative DVR, 9 out of 10 people will probably point to recurring costs. Even with TiVo's lifetime subscription back in action, the company still asks for a lot of money to provide basic DVR services. Not to stereotype here, but you're telling me that Australia gets boxing kangaroos, Crocodile Dundee and free TiVo service? Lucky! [SMH via Zatz Not Funny]

Microsoft Will Totally Bork Your Media Center DVR If NBC (or Anyone) Asks It To

Last week, courtesy of NBC, people with a Windows Media Center DVR setup got a rude reminder that broadcasters can flip a switch (called a broadcast flag) to tell DVRs not to record a show. Here's the thing: Honoring the flag is actually optional for software and hardware makers, after courts smacked down the FCC proposal to make them mandatory. But Microsoft has confirmed that they do whatever the broadcaster tells them, again, even though they don't have to. NBC hasn't confirmed yet whether or not the American Gladiators flag was intentional, but their history doesn't give me a fuzzy feeling. Update: NBC says it was an accident. More »