Tag: DVR

According to Nielsen's first ratings of the 2010 to 2011 TV season, the premiere episode of CBS's 'Hawaii Five-0' rehash has the distinction of being the most DVR-ed show of all time. The Washington Post reports that about 3.4 million people recorded the show and watched it within the next week. In the DVR age, Nielsen has struggled with gauging exactly how many people watch a show. The Live+7 ...

When the Twitter account @shitmydadsays became a prime-time TV show, the name had to undergo a little surgery. But there's an unforeseen problem; many DVRs can't recognize the characters in the title "$#*! My Dad Says." That's made searching for the show a bit difficult -- so difficult, in fact, that CBS felt compelled to release a guide to recording the show on your DVR. ...

In an effort to combat other satellite companies and cable providers, Dish Network Corp. will begin streaming live content to subscribers' smartphones and mobile devices next month, without extra charge. Currently, Dish's mobile apps only allow a subscriber to browse shows, set them to record and use their cellular device as a remote control. With the new app installed, however, a subscriber will ...

According to Geekosystem, many a DirecTV customer who owns the company's HD DVR woke up Tuesday to find that their device wouldn't work. The glitch was apparently a result of the satellite company's Whole-Home DVR service, which allows customers to record and watch shows in any room of their house with just one DVR unit. When this roll-out occurred late Monday night, some updated program guide ...

Share Google came out swinging during day two of its Google I/O conference with several big announcements. Earlier in the day, the Android's Froyo OS got official, and then Google launched into its plans to bring the Web (and all its video and multimedia content, including Flash) to your living room. Despite some spectacular tech demo hiccups, Google unveiled its vision for the future of ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Various studies have contributed contradictory evidence about whether or not the majority of DVR owners actually view commercials. The latest survey, performed by Duke University, claims that 95-percent of the material viewed by the focus group was actually watched live, and that the fast forward-ers and live viewers spent roughly ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Anyone remember the old Yippie adage, "Don't trust anyone over 30?" Well, Apple is pushing 35, and, according to some folks, it has officially sold out. Discussing the recent iPhone 4G-related home invasion of Gizmodo's Jason Chen, Jon Stewart scathingly lambasted the corporate behemoth, asking, "Remember back in 1984, you had ...

Back in the late '50s, a market researcher named James Vicary decided that by flashing "Drink Coca-Cola" for 1/3000 of a second at five-second intervals during a film would make audiences desire to quench their deep-down thirst with the soda. In 1962, Vicary finally admitted that subliminal advertising was a massive hoax -- although for some nefarious marketers, the dream of penetrating the ...

NBC took a huge gamble when they decided to move Jay Leno this fall from his 11 p.m. slot that he'd come to dominate in the ratings. Why change a winning game plan? Well, sure enough, early ratings returns from Leno's 10 p.m. gig are disappointing, and the AP suggests it's DVR devices. The theory goes that since 10 p.m. is a popular time for people to catch up on shows they missed earlier, ...

It was once thought that DVRs would destroy television. The theory was that people would stop watching live TV, and, of course, skip all the commercials -- the primary revenue stream for TV networks. But, oddly, as DVRs become more commonplace, fewer DVR viewers are fast-forwarding through advertisements. According to Nielsen, the number of homes in the U.S. with DVRs has jumped from ...

One of the curses of HD DVRs is that, when recording HD video, they fill up terribly quickly. But, depending on your cable or satellite provider, and the model of box you have (check with your provider), you can quickly and cheaply upgrade your capacity. First, get hold of a completely empty SATA USB hard drive. Unplug the power cord of your set-top box, plug in the drive (the bigger the better), ...

Have you ever been stuck late at the office and realized that you'd forgotten to set your TiVo to record the new episode of 'Lost?' If you own a BlackBerry, your heart will no longer sink upon such a revelation. Research and Motion (RIM) and TiVo are today launching TiVo for BlackBerry, available for download on the BlackBerry App World. The free app features a program guide, which users can ...

Today, TiVo will begin selling more than the opportunity to watch your favorite shows when it's more convenient. According to USA Today, the company is trying to hawk viewer information to TV stations and advertisers alike with its fledgling 'Stop/Watch Local Markets' program, hoping to give tracking giant Nielsen a run for its money. Able to monitor viewers' behavior by the second, TiVo will not ...

The great thing about the Internet is you can track absolutely everything. Stats about everything people do in their online lives can be compiled into handy lists. NewTeeVee, has compiled some of these lists of stats into a year end round up of the most DVRd shows, most Twittered shows, and most pirated movies. According to numbers from Nielsen 'Grey's Anatomy' was the most recorded show of the ...

Rejoice, HTPC (home theater PC) fans -- that partnership between Nero and TiVo has finally borne fruit in the form of Nero's new LiquidTV / TiVo PC DVR package, which brings the TiVo interface and featureset to Windows. The $199 package comes with a year of TiVo service, a Hauppage USB ATSC tuner, an IR receiver, and a Nero-branded TiVo remote, and does exactly as you'd expect -- it's TiVo on ...