Tag: TIVO

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 ...

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 ...