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TiVo HD sold out, new model speculation abounds
SV Staff  |  Feb 04, 2010  | 
A new TiVo DVR might be coming out soon, if TiVo's online store and boundless gadget blog speculation have anything to say about it. Crunchgear noticed that the TiVo HD is sold out on TiVo's web site. The TiVo HD is TiVo's main DVR model, so this...
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TiVo Hits Jackpot with Stock Offering
Barry Willis  |  Oct 03, 1999  | 

Think there's a huge market for personal video recorders, or PVRs? So does Wall Street. On September 30, <A HREF="http://www.tivo.com/">TiVo Inc.</A>, the Sunnyvale, California-based maker of hard-disk time-shifters, earned more than $88 million with an initial public stock offering. TiVo shares rose from an opening price of $13.94 to $29.94 each in the first day of trading, a gain of 87%. A total of 5.5 million shares were sold at $16 each.

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TiVo Hits One Out of the Park
SV Staff  |  Sep 04, 2008  | 
Shortly after announcing a new DirecTV combination unit, TiVo is making bigger news, all by themselves. A new standalone DVR has been released, with tons of exciting features. The TiVo HD XL, if you couldn't guess by the name, has extra-large...
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TiVo Inks Deal with Netflix
Barry Willis  |  Oct 04, 2004  | 

The rumors were true. TiVo, Inc. and Netflix, Inc. are teaming up to deliver movies on demand over the Internet beginning next year, according to announcements made September 30.

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TiVo Inks Deals with HBO, Showtime, and The Weather Channel
Jon Iverson  |  Jan 31, 1999  | 

Amid a flurry of activity last week, <A HREF="http://www.tivo.com">TiVo</A> announced new agreements with several content providers to help support its new hard-disk-based A/V recording and playback system. As reported during last month's Consumer Electronics Show <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/shownews.cgi?338">coverage</A>, TiVo and rival start-up <A HREF="http://www.replaytv.com">Replay</A> intend to market digital devices with sophisticated software that finds and time-shifts TV programming, giving viewers more control over selecting and watching television content.

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TiVo Is Latest Netflix Rental Medium
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 03, 2008  | 
Netflix will bring its streaming movie service to owners of TiVo Series3, HD, and HD XL DVRs. Testing began last week, with the rollout to all TiVo subscribers following in December.
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TiVo Joins Netflix
SV Staff  |  Oct 30, 2008  | 
If you can possibly remember back that far, back in September 2004, it looked like TiVo and Netflix would strike a deal to stream movies to set-top boxes. It was a terrifically brilliant idea. But nothing ever came of it. TiVo worked out a deal...
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TiVo On The Go
SV Staff  |  Nov 25, 2008  | 
TiVo has offered remote scheduling via cell phone for a while now, but it wasn't exactly a simple process, and it wasn't available to everyone. Until now. TiVo just launched TiVo Mobile, a free website optimized for the mobile phone...
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TiVo on the Rise
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 17, 2005  | 

It's been a long, hard road for TiVo, the company that started the digital video recorder (DVR) revolution. Even though the name has become a household word (as both a noun and a verb), TiVo has struggled to stay afloat since it was founded in 1997. In fact, it has yet to show a profit.

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TiVo Passes One Million Mark
 |  Nov 10, 2003  |  First Published: Nov 11, 2003  | 

<A HREF="http://www.tivo.com">TiVo, Inc</A>. is enjoying its best season yet. The San Jose, CA&ndash;based maker of digital video recorders (DVRs) announced November 4 that subscriptions for its service have exceeded the one million mark and are on course for further growth during the coming holiday season.

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TiVo Patent Claim Rejected
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 11, 2010  | 
TiVo's long running battle to protect its DVR patent is seeing setbacks on two different fronts.
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TiVo Pleads for Cable Parity
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 30, 2010  | 
TiVo is pleading with Congress to make its DVRs, and retail set-top devices in general, as powerful as those leased by cable operators to their subscribers.
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TiVo Premiere and Premiere XL coming in April
SV Staff  |  Mar 02, 2010  | 
 Walking past the TiVo booth at press events has been a little painful for a while now. They were always touting a new partnership or somethingl like that, but the same, increadingly old hardware still sat there on the table. But now...
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TiVo Premiere Debuts
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 03, 2010  | 

TiVo is one of the most recognizable brands in all of consumer electronics&#151;so much so that the name of the company has become a verb in the popular lexicon, much like Xerox. After years of anticipation, TiVo today announced the next generation of its DVR platform&#151;Premiere and Premiere XL.

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TiVo Premiere now available
SV Staff  |  Mar 29, 2010  | 
The newest TiVo is finally available to the public, after months of waiting and a year or two of sheer speculation. The TiVo Premiere is now on sale in two different flavors, ready for installation in your home theater. The TiVo Premiere features...
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