Tag: DVR

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. ...

The Motion Picture Association of America appears to be going down a path that puts it at odds with some of goals of the digital television transition, thanks to its move to restrict the ability of digital video recorders to save high definition movies when they're first distributed via satellite, cable or even broadcast TV. The restriction, made possible by a kind of "switch" called Selectable ...

Satellite-based television provider DirecTV recently began beta testing new on-demand technology that enables viewers to browse, select and watch movies, tv episodes, and other content. While on-demand features have been available for years with cable providers such as Comcast, they have not been available through DirecTV, due to the one-way nature of satellite TV. By combining a digital video ...

NBC and CBS, and ABC already offer full episodes of new and classic shows online -- a huge help to those who lack a DVR and find themselves missing an episode or two. Now ABC is taking that a step further, offering a free video-on-demand service straight to digital cable subscribers' boxes. There's a catch, though: You won't be able to fast-forward through the commercials. This too is similar to ...

With Microsoft's promise of the Xbox 360 becoming your one-stop media hub becoming more and more evident with each passing day, the rumor of an IPTV update for the concave box should be a somewhat exciting non-surprise. Recently, an Xbox 360 owner by the name of Aaron turned on his unit to see an interesting new icon had materialized on his dashboard that had four blank boxes and some text ...

TiVo and Real announced a partnership yesterday that brings the popular Rhapsody service and its over four million songs to your TV (or, preferably, your TV that's connected to a home theater system). For $13 - $15 a month, you get access to the award-winning Rhapsody subscription service, which lets you "rent" any of its four million songs as long as you keep paying the monthly fee. TiVo has ...

Sony has always talked about the PlayStation 3 (PS3) dominating your home entertainment center. While all its plans haven't exactly come to fruition, the company might be finally getting somewhere. Sony recently indicated that the company hopes to release a digital TV tuner for the console sometime before spring of next year. The tuner would be augmented by some DVR/Tivo-like functionality, ...

That rumored budget HD TiVo box we discussed earlier, it's here! And carrying the moniker TiVo HD, it ditches the previous naming scheme of 'TiVo Series X.' It seems the previously-reported specs, and even the photo, turned out to be accurate. Here are some of the features the entry-level Tivo HD will lack: No OLED No fancy remote No THX What do these feature omissions mean? ...

If you're not watching TV with a DVR or Tivo or the like, you're missing out on, well, a lot of useless but entertaining TV programming that you could be watching at your leisure. But despite all the joys and convenience of time-shifted viewing, Tivo and DVRs still have one big challenge: tardy sporting events. Fans of prime-time Sunday television dread the beginning of the football season because ...

That TiVo Series 3 box sure is tempting ... until you see the price. At $800, it's no wonder TiVo units aren't moving as briskly as they once did. Thankfully, the company is finally offering an HD DVR at a much more reasonable price. Rumor has it, the Series 3 Lite will run consumers only $299. TiVo is keeping the price down by dropping some of the more extravagant features, such as the ...

Remember the days when you could pick up a TiVo and pay a high, but reasonable fee for a lifetime of service? Remember when they put the squash on that with the Series 3? It was a sad day for people everywhere who didn't want to be stuck with whatever crappy box the cable company threw at them. TiVo has felt your pain and is offering, for a limited time only, to transfer a lifetime service ...

Announced back in November, Tivo's Universal Swivel Search feature for the Series 2 and Series 3 DVR boxes is finally available (or at least will be over the next six weeks in a gradual roll-out). Unlike the current search and recommendation feature of Tivo, which is limited to keyword- and title- searches on Tivo's databases, the Universal Swivel Search allows subscribers to search based on ...