Tag: HDDVR

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 ...

You know those situations where everyone knows something yet no one is courageous enough to just blurt out the obvious? Pardon us, but yes, people do actually use their DVRs to skip commercials. In case our word isn't good enough for you, research firm Oliver Wyman has just completed a study which found that 85% of the 1,000 global participants used their DVR to skip at least three-quarters of ...

Back in May, TiVo's VP of product marketing got all of our hopes up that the next announcement involving it and Amazon would include HD Unbox content. As you can very clearly see, this is most certainly not the case. Instead, we have the immense pleasure of informing Internet-connected Tivo Series2, Series3 and TiVo HD owners that they can now buy wares from Amazon without leaving their couch. ...