TiVo in the news

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2008
Wall Street Journal

Tapping Your TiVo's Hidden Talents – The Mossberg Solution- By Katherine Boehret, Edited by Walter S. Mossberg – The Wall Street Journal – 3/5/08

A fondness for TiVo has encouraged users to refer to it with designated nicknames and/or genders. A teacher friend of mine was recently asked by a student if her husband's name was TiVo after the child heard her say she would have to tell TiVo about a new TV show. But like any old friend -- or spouse -- who has been around for a while, TiVo has a few tricks up its sleeve that might surprise longtime users and new owners alike. This column includes just a handful of those tricks and highlights some features that may make TiVo more useful. These tips are for everyday users, not serious hackers, and many others exist.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2008
New York Times

The Good, Bad and Ugly of Movie Downloading – By David Pogue – The New York Times – 2/21/08

Why did so many companies dump HD DVD so fast? Intriguingly, one often-cited reason is the approaching era of Internet movie downloads. The logic goes like this: as long as there’s a format war, consumers won’t buy DVD players of either type. By settling on a single format — it doesn’t really matter which one — the movie and electronics industries can at least start milking the remaining years of the DVD’s life.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2008
New York Times

For Marketing, the Most Valuable Player Might Be YouTube – By Stuart Elliott – The New York Times – 2/5/08

SOME religions believe in an afterlife. Others do not. On Madison Avenue after the Super Bowl, most everyone is a believer.That is because the Internet, digital video recorders, mobile devices and other technologies are giving a strong postgame presence to the commercials that appear each year during the Super Bowl. The spots can be watched later on Web sites, forwarded to friends through e-mail, discussed on message boards and assessed on blogs.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2008
New York Times

"Circuits" Q&A: Store on TiVo, Save on DVD – By J.D. Biersdorfer – The New York Times – 2/7/08

Q. Is there a way to record programs stored on my TiVo recorder in the living room onto a DVD so I can save them or watch them elsewhere?

A. Although some TiVo digital recorders have integrated DVD burners, you don’t have to own one of those models to get your shows copied to a disc. There are at least a couple of other options.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2008
Associated Press

Court upholds TiVo claim of patent violation – Associated Press – 2/1/08

The three-judge appeals court panel overturned the lower court's ruling that Dish infringed the hardware elements of the patent but said the violation of the software claims was sufficient to uphold the $74 million in damages the lower court awarded TiVo. WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld TiVo Inc.'s claims that Dish Network Corp. infringed one of its patents, sending TiVo's shares up 29%.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008
HighBridNation.com

THUMBS UP for TiVo Interactive Advertising and Marketing – HighBridNation.com – 1/24/08

TiVo, a marketers dream TiVo the recognized leader and creator of DVR (Digital Video Recorders) today announced a partnership with Symantec (you know the Norton’s Anti-virus cats) to be their first interactive advertiser on their TiVoCast Programming. Learning about this got me to thinking… As a marketing professional and a TiVo subscriber I find the TiVo’s interactive marketing very intriguing. For those of you who don’t own one TiVo’s has worked hard to answer the concerns of marketers who feel that TiVo allows viewers to by-pass commercial breaks rendering their ads less effective. In response TiVo has created marketing opportunites for hungry advertisers that are really cool and cutting edge.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2008
USA Today

Boston gets Comcast's TiVo-powered DVR – By David Lieberman – USA Today – 1/22/08

NEW YORK — TiVo aims to make life easy for its digital video recorder customers. But its journey to this potentially pivotal week was extraordinarily difficult. After three years of painstaking work, Comcast, (CMCSA) the nation's largest cable provider, Tuesday will begin marketing TiVo's (TIVO) interface as a premium software upgrade for DVR customers in the Boston area. The significance of the offering reaches far beyond Beantown.

MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2008
Los Angeles Times

Watch TiVo evolve with the industry, CEO says – By Alex Pham – Los Angeles Times – 1/21/08

The world of video is going to go the way of music. In the music world, you can get any song you want, any time you want it, on any device you want it. That's what's happened in the last five, six years. It's become a la carte, on demand. We think the same thing is going to happen with television. That changes the whole notion of television convenience and ease -- to mean being able to go out and find any piece of content you want through your television set and being able to watch it. We've built TiVo's capabilities to do that. We started with being able to retrieve certain content from newspapers and other players that had video that they want to get to the TV set. And we expanded it with Amazon, where they created thousands of television shows and movies [that can be delivered] via broadband straight to your television set.

MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2008
Associated Press

TiVo to Feature Web Video – Associated Press – 1/7/08 LAS VEGAS (AP)

TiVo Inc. said Monday its subscribers will soon be able to select video from the Web for playback on televisions through its digital video recording service, building on its strategy to extend its DVR beyond regular TV. The new feature, announced at the International Consumer Electronics Show, will let users apply "Season Pass" recording to video content available on Real Simple Syndication, or RSS, feeds. Such Web-based videos could range from network nightly newscasts to more niche videos culled from blogs or independent Internet sites, such as DiggNation or Ask A Ninja.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2007
the Gadget Hound

The Top 10 Gadgets of 2007 by Ben Patterson

TiVo HD: The best of the set-top DVRs made the leap to HD in late 2006, but the $800 price tag for the new Series3 box was a bitter pill. Luckily, the $300 TiVo HD arrived in August. In the meantime, TiVo's been busy adding support for Amazon Unbox video downloads, the Rhapsody music service, and Picasa photo libraries.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2007
The Vancouver Sun

TiVo, 'VCR on steroids,' selling 'extremely well'
By Marke Andrews

Like many marketing managers, Lee Scherbinsky can talk a blue streak about a new product. But in the case of TiVo, the television recording device, which arrived in British Columbia stores just days ago, Scherbinsky has a personal interest because he got one for himself.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2007
CNBC - Closing Bell

Interview with TiVo CEO Tom Rogers

TiVo stock up 50% this year. Hot new features. Music, Videos, Movies...

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2007
Sound & Vision Hot 100

TiVo HD DVR Makes Sound and Vision's HOT 100 List

In case you didn't hear, TiVo's gone high-def, and it's finally at a price everyone can afford. The company's HD DVR can record 20 hours of HDTV shows (180 in standard-def), even recording two HD shows at once. In addition to the cable channels, the DVR can download movies and TV episodes from Amazon Unbox. Forgot to set it to record that Happy Days reunion? Just schedule the recording via the Net.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2007
Kansas City Sar

Now you can share your videos on your own TV channel
By Stacy Downs

Have you ever wanted your own TV channel? Well, now you can have one if you have a broadband Internet connection and a few friends and family members with TiVo digital video recorders.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2007
Wall Street Journal

TiVo Serves Up Portrait of the Ad-Zappers --- Marketers Are Offered A Look at Subscribers, How They Use DVRs
By Suzanne Vranica

Facing increased competition from cable operators and phone companies that offer digital video-recording services, TiVo is making a bigger grab at a different source of revenue: the pile of money that marketers are throwing at companies that promise fresh insights into TV-viewing habits.