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TiVo Sues Verizon and AT&T
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Supreme Court OKs DVR-In-The-Cloud Concept
Court Grants Stay On EchoStar Injunction (Translation: Dish Network DVRs Are Safe, For Now)
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HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
08/27/09

In reply to TiVo Sues Verizon and AT&T
Eh, I don't mind this so much. Unlike the patent trolls out there, the folks at TiVo actually did manage to bring a product to market, and a damn good product at that.
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reddingofish
08/27/09

In reply to TiVo Sues Verizon and AT&T
Time Warner says I cannot use a Tivo on their network.
Is it true or is it bullshit?
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dingus
08/27/09

@reddingofish: I think they're required to rent you a CableCard, so I'd tend towards bs.
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dingus
08/27/09

In reply to TiVo Sues Verizon and AT&T
Isn't TiVo irrelevant now? Cable company DVRs are getting decent (ex. U-Verse) and alternate programming sources like Hulu and Netflix don't need to be time shifted.
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Bustout
08/27/09

@dingus: No, nothing works quite as nice as a TiVo. It's not the individual capabilities, so much as how they've managed to put it all together in a single package that has a good user feel to it.
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dingus
08/27/09

@Bustout: You know, I said the same thing for years. Then I tried UVerse at my mom's (she was in a test market). No, it isn't exactly as nice. But considering my upgrade path from my dying S1 at the time was $1k for a S3 and lifetime transfer AND fighting with TWC to get CableCard, I decided to jump ship. It does everything my old TiVo did except make show recommendations that I find insulting.

I think TiVo is on the downfall since customers no longer see the value vs. the ever improving rental DVR. TiVo has always been on shaky ground, but because it was the only game in town (after it stomped ReplayTV) people had a reason to drop that kind of money.
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Bustout
08/31/09

@dingus: While I haven't used the UVerse system yet, I love my TiVo HD! I have astound at home and their support rocks. I was able to get a couple of cable cards in a couple of days. I still have my S2 as well and we use it to catch shows when the two tuners are already in use on the HD however there are so many other features that make the TiVo great. I love being able to use it to send almost any video I want to it from my pc. I love being able to pull the video from the TiVo and send it to my PSP or iPhone. Netflix streaming is sweet. So is the ability to watch youtube as well as web videos through RSS feeds. This is all on top of the really nice interface that TiVo already had for recording and watching shows.
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huh989
08/04/09

In reply to Moxi HD DVR Gets 6TB Drive Support, Spawns "Moxi Mate" Media Extender
1000 hours...pshh. I'll go through that in like 2 days.
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TheSonOfKrypton
08/04/09

@huh989: hahaha, I lol'ed. Nice.
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MacBandit
06/04/09

In reply to Court Grants Stay On EchoStar Injunction (Translation: Dish Network DVRs Are Safe, For Now)
1 Start playing any recording.

2 During playback press:

Select - Play - Select - 3 - 0 - Select

3 You should hear three bongs (if you don't have the TiVo sounds disabled), and you're done.

Good news is Tivo is accepting this feature now. They use to reset it every software update and now they don't.
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fuchikoma
06/04/09

Interesting, this also affects Bell ExpressVu customers in Canada since we basically use the same hardware as Dish.

@MacBandit:

Is that anything like "To enable cheats in this game, press Alt-F4"? It doesn't seem too wise to enter a random undocumented code with no idea what it might do...
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Cyborgmatt
06/03/09

In reply to TiVo Gets Another Huge, Court-Ordered Gift From a EchoStar
I wish we had the Tivo unit in the UK :(.
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OMG! Ponies!
06/03/09

@Cyborgmatt: Maybe you should have thought of that before passing the Stamp Act of 1765.
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Monty
05/28/09

In reply to After a Short Break, TiVo Gets Back To Losing All Its Money
About a year ago I stopped hearing the technology referred to as "TiVo" by Grandma and Grampa Joe and knew the worst was still to come for our beloved time-shifting company. [sniff] We will miss you, TiVo, and I promise to continue calling my DVR technologies by your glorious name long after everyone else has forgotten you.

(Um, could you develop a new product that quite literally shifts time so we could all stop being late for our Hannah Montana concerts? Now that would be a kick ass technology. Well, ignoring the fact that we would be watching Hannah Montana, of course.)
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Cliff_Dangers
05/28/09

In reply to After a Short Break, TiVo Gets Back To Losing All Its Money
Corporations are the scourge of the Earth. No where else would a 9% reduction in profit be counted as a loss. Last year I made 1 million in profit but his year I made 900,000. report for the year.. 100,000 lost. UMMM no!.. You made 900,000... only in a corporation would that be counted as a loss. Corporation has 70% reduction in profit, they go bankrupt.. private business just keeps on truckin.
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DNABio
05/28/09

@Cliff_Dangers: Actually, people who don't know the difference between revenue and profit are the scourge of Corporations.
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Canoehead
05/28/09

@DNABio: How about people who think that P:E Ratio means "Profit to Earnings"? Are they also the scourge of the Earth or just dimwits?

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Monty
05/28/09

@Canoehead: Not to slip off the slippery slope here, but did he really mean "P/E Ratio", or did he mean what he said, "profit and earnings ratios"? With less than 1% of the population understanding what a P/E ratio is, I question whether any major news network would touch this no matter who said it. (Did Fox?) That said, I would have been amazed to hear Dubya talk about "profit and earnings ratios", but not because it would be a guffaw - but just because I suspect he is not in the happy one percent.

Personally, I have enough knowledge to be dangerous and know that I never touch a stock with a P/E ratio above 15. Ratios like Apple's 24 are just plain scary, IMHO. Then again, I was on the fence at buying AAPL at $14 a share, and have kicked myself ever since. [sigh]
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elementary
04/09/09

In reply to Moxi Steps To TiVo, Adding Rhapsody Music and PlayOn for Netflix, Hulu and More
Hulu you say? With this I can cancel my cable! But of course I would never do that because I'd want to use my awesome new DVR to record my favorite shows, which I of course won't bother recording because I can access them on Hulu!

Hmm.. I guess I'll have to pass. This thing opens up a personal paradox that will likely tear the space-time continuum of my soul.
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scarbrtj
01/08/09

In reply to Dish Network ViP 922 1-Terabyte HD-DVR Comes SlingLoaded
Anybody else have problems with stuttering, slightly jumpy video when slinging 1080i? It's *almost* there... but not quite. Still not as good as direct HDMI connection from STB to TV.
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