Archives: TiVo and DVR
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September 2006
- Project TiVo
- It looks as though TiVo is getting in on the whole “viral marketing” bandwagon. Done with a pretty obvious nod to Lost‘s “Dharma Initiative” films, the Project Bluemoon video talks about where TiVo came from. You can grab a much higher quality version at tivo.com/bluemoon.... full entry
February 2006
- Split Divx AVI on OS X
- What do you do when a DIVX AVI is over the limit of the CD-RW capacity, and you don’t have any DVD-RW’s? I found a free, open-source Cocoa app, released under GPL that does just that: Explicit. It’s very straight-forward, very fast, and even gives... full entry
January 2006
- Encoding? More like BEENcoding
- That title’s funnier if you pronounce it like Strong Bad. Anyway. Methods: Old (total time 45min. - 2hrs. 35min.): Transcode DivX file to MPEG-2 video and AC3 audio streams: 30 min. - 2 hrs. Multiplex MPEG-2 video and AC3 streams into DVD track data: 10-20min.... full entry
- TiVo Series3: HDTV, Baby!
- This makes me excited. Oh yes, it definitely does. On display at CES this week is the forthcoming (mid-to-late 2006, apparently) TiVo Series3 box. MegaZone has the full post with info, but here are some highlights: HTDV support. CableCARD support. Dual tuners (actually, 6 tuners... full entry
February 2005
- TiVoToGo Primer
- What the heck, I seem to be on a roll so I’ll just keep going. PVRblog also points us to a great primer on TiVo’s new TiVoToGo feature. It contains information on what TTG is, how to use it, how to “free the MPEG”, how... full entry
- Why to Love TiVo
- PVRblog points us toward this wonderfully humorous (yet disturbingly accurate) question and answer session about TiVo entitled “Questions Frequently Asked About TiVo, Answered by Someone Who Loves TiVo Too Much”. Q: Will TiVo change my life? A: No, TiVo will not change your life so... full entry
January 2005
- TiVoToGo MPEG2 Decrypting
- Boing Boing linked to a site detailing how to be able to decrypt your TiVoToGo files so that you can do something such as remove the commercials before you archive them. I got excited when I saw the post and immediately went to the instructions.... full entry
- TiVoToGo Information
- The much-anticipated TiVoToGo feature has been released. A lot of people are still waiting for the service update for their TiVo box, but I happened to get mine a few days ago. I immediately went and downloaded the “TiVo Desktop 2.0” (a requirement) and started... full entry
October 2004
- TiVo Talk on Wired
- Wired Magazine (well, website) has a short interview with TiVo general counsel Matthew Zinn. Basically, it talks about some upcoming content restrictions that will exist for pay-per-view and video-on-demand recordings. Specifically, the fact that they’ll be automatically deleted after a certain time. Does this signal... full entry
- Netflix and TiVo are Go!
- The partnership between Netflix and TiVo looks like it’s really going to happen. The companies officially announced earlier this week that they were going forward with the plan. I wrote about this possibility a couple of weeks ago and I’m still really excited by it.... full entry
September 2004
- Netflix and TiVo: Download your Movies!
- PVRBlog points out that there’s an article in Newsweek (which I haven’t seen since it hasn’t arrived since my move...) that’s discussing TiVo and NetFlix teaming up to offer downloadable movies. Details are thin, but the idea is that people who have both a TiVo... full entry
August 2004
- TiVoToGo is… um, Go!
- Woohoo! I just saw over on PVRBlog that the FCC gave TiVo approval for TiVoToGo. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m really, really interested in TiVoToGo, which is a feature that would allow TiVo users to download content off their DVR and use it on their... full entry
February 2004
- TiVoToGo… Just What I Want!
- One of my TiVo-using friends forwarded on a link to me today to a TiVo survey regarding the forthcoming TiVoToGo feature. TiVoToGo is a feature that would allow users to transfer recorded shows/movies from their TiVo unit to their computer. Once there they could take... full entry
- The TiVo Remote: Design Nirvana?
- Have I mentioned recently just how much I freakin’ love having a Tivo? Well, I do. So, whenever I see an article about Tivo, I just have to go read it right away. In this case, the article is a New York Times (free registration)... full entry
October 2003
- TV (and TiVo) on my Computer
- I finally got around to installing the video capture card that I bought: a Hauppauge PVR250. Installation was a breeze and everything worked fine right away (which is always nice when dealing with anything computer-related). It was very cool to just jump into watching TV... full entry
June 2003
- Build your Own “TiVo”
- I saw some references recently to the Linux-based MythTV software. It’s the software and UI behind a computer-based PVR similar to TiVo or ReplayTV. Wired now has an article up about how people are building their own PVR using the software. Now, I’m a huge... full entry
May 2003
- TyStudio: Grab TiVo Streams
- Yet again, Mark Pilgrim shares a great link. TyStudio “is a Tivo Video Recording Format framework”. Basically, it allows you to transform your TiVo recording into other formats such as standard MPEG so that you can use it for other purposes (archiving your shows, perhaps?).... full entry
January 2003
- TiVo’s 30-second Skip
- I’m one of those people who’s been sucked in by TiVo. Even though it’s a marketing gimmick, it really does revolutionize the way you watch television. Anyway, there’s apparently an “easter egg” that will allow you to turn on a 30-second Skip feature — something... full entry
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