TiVo Gets Another Cable Distribution Deal

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[Gadget News] TiVo is having a busy week it seems.They’ve just agreed a deal to provide DVRs and service to customers of the 1000+ companies in the National Cable Television Cooperative. The NCTC buys hardware and programming for its member operators and will now serve as a middleman between TiVo and the operators.

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[*michael parekh on IT*] ON THE WANING DAYS OF TV GUIDE: What the Promise does is grab the entirebroadcast TV multiplex -- all the channels being broadcast in the UK --slices them up according to the free, over-the-air electronicprogramming guide, and stores an entire month's worth. Why program aTiVo to get certain shows for you when you can record every single showon the air, all at once, and then use recommendations, search, a grid,or any other means you care to name to figure out which of thosethousands and thousands and thousands of hours of programming you want to watch.

 [Home Entertainment - homeentertainment.engadget.com] The Engadget Interview: Blake Krikorian, CEO of Sling Media >: But we see two other core groups: There are also people who are TiVo or DVR users who are interested in having that experience in other rooms in the house. There’s another set of people who are tethered to their desks at work and they have a keen interest in television, whether it’s news junkies who want to be tapped into world or financial news, or avid sports fans at work, or those who want to watch their local team on their laptop while barbecuing in the back yard.

[Sysinternals.com] Mark's Sysinternals Blog: Cable DVRs and Competition: A couple of years later its disk was too small for the programs all I was recording and it lacked some of the features available newer DVRs, like broadband, so I compared the TiVo and ReplayTV's current versio(which was being sold by Panasonic after it acquired SonicBlue). I decided to go with ReplayTV again, because it matched most of TiVo’s features, but primarily because I was familiar with it and its ability to skip forward 7 or 30 seconds makes it extremely easy to avoid commercials.

[Tbotcotw.com] The Blog of the Century of the Week: The chanel guide is up to date, and I know I've got a cable signal because the TiVo I keep hooked up to the same system to back up the Comcast box when it fails is playing live video and audio just fine. It took three calls to Comcast to find someone with enough smarts to diagnose the issue.

[Pvr.blogs.com] NYC Time-Warner customers getting DVRs | PVRblog: They are deploying Scientific American's Explorer 800, which features dual tuners and a 80Gb hard drive that records native digital signals, much like a Directivo (resulting in a much better picture free of compression artifacts). They're charging less than $10 a month for the service and the boxes are free making it much cheaper than TiVo.

 [Engadget.com] Sony’s DHG-HDD250 and DHG-HDD500 high-def DVRs - Engadget - www ...: It is also an OTA decoder with a Cable Card slot, meaning that with a cable card from your cable company (legally available for about $1.95 just in case you don't know), not only are you getting your usual analog, digital and HighDef channels from your cable company, you are also getting what ever is available over the air, a whopping 30 to 60 hours of High Def Recording and over 300 hours of analog and standard definition content.And best of all, you don't pay a dime.

[Blog.kevindonahue.com] KevinDonahue.com [New 120GB Tivo/DirecTV DVRs coming soon]: They are essentially the same as the "Series II DirecTivo" that has been available for about a year, but the new units will have an upgraded hard drive of 120GB instead of the standard 40GB. The units are being sold under the Samsung and Hughes names, although they are reportedly made by the same folks (at the same location) as the existing Series II units that are marketed as Hughes, Philips, RCA, and Samsung.

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Posted at August 03, 2005 07:27 AM