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TiVo Series2
HT Staff  |  Feb 29, 2004
TV fans that can't get enough should flock to the new TiVo Series2 DVR.
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TiVo Shaves Down Lag Time
SV Staff  |  Apr 03, 2008
Those spoiled TiVo-owners always seem to get what they want. Unlike the poor slobs who get by with poorly-designed and slow-as-molasses DVRs from the cable company, TiVo customers will soon get an upgrade that improves response times and processing...
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TiVo Sings a Duet with Rhapsody
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 12, 2007
Broadband-connected TiVo owners will get a chance to subscribe to one of the leading music services via the DVR, under a deal between TiVo and Rhapsody.
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TiVo Subscribers Say Ouch
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 23, 2011
TiVo is unquestionably the industry's deluxe DVR, but that status has always come at a price: Users pay for both hardware and the monthly program guide subscription. Now the latter is rising in price.

TiVo's monthly fee of $12.95 is going up to $19.99. And the cost of lifetime service, previously $399, is now $499. The new prices became effective last week, on May 19, 2011.

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TiVo Supports Web Video
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 21, 2008
The a/v and online worlds converged just a touch more this week when TiVo activated a new feature that allows subscribers to watch web video content on their TiVo-fed TVs.
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TiVo toys with free, contract-based DVRs
SV Staff  |  Sep 14, 2010
After years of selling its DVR as a relatively pricey piece of consumer electronics, TiVo is experimenting with adopting the cell phone model of product and service pricing. According to Engadget, TiVo held a short-lived test promotion where the...
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TiVo Users Beware?
Jon Iverson  |  Apr 01, 2001

Last week, TiVo found itself the focus flurry of unwanted media attention as a new <A HREF="http://www.privacyfoundation.org/privacywatch/report.asp?id=62&action=0"... was released by the <A HREF="http://www.privacyfoundation.org/">Privacy Foundation</A> detailing at length how the TiVo system collects personal data. The report also reveals what the Privacy Foundation found while comparing a TiVo PVR's actual behavior under test with the company's stated privacy policy. The Foundation says that it and University of Denver Privacy Center have recently completed a fourth independent investigation of the TiVo device.

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TiVo Wins Major Court Victory Over EchoStar; Japanese Blu-ray players To Be Region-Code Free.
 |  Aug 20, 2006

<B>EchoStar Infringed On TiVo's Patents, Court Rules</B><BR>
EchoStar, which operates DISH Network's satellite TV service, was ruled by a federal district in Texas to have infringed on several patents held by TiVo, and ordered to halt the use of the bulk of the DVRs its subscribers use. A subsequent injunction blocked the order, which would have affected millions of EchoStar's subscribers.

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TiVo Wins, DISH Denied
SV Staff  |  Oct 08, 2008
Isn't patent law fascinating? TiVo has owned the patent for, well, TiVo'ing. Their ability to time-shift while recording a show was a patented process, and DISH's DVRs were violating that patent. The damages stretch back over two years. The first...
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TiVo Working at The Daily Show
SV Staff  |  Aug 19, 2008
Who doesn't love their TiVo? Who would love to take their TiVo to work with them every day? If you're on the staff at The Daily Show, you don't have to. If you've watched the show, you know that they pull clips from a wide range of sources. Did...
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TiVo'ing Your PC
SV Staff  |  Sep 29, 2008
There are so many ways to interface between your home entertainment system and your home computer. The lines between the two are disappearing, but one product seemed to be stuck firmly on the entertainment side. The DVR seemed to only exist in the...
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TiVo's hitting New Zealand
SV Staff  |  Aug 31, 2009
It might be a long-standing DVR fixture in the United States, but down in the land of kiwis TiVo hasn't shown up at all. That's changing this November, when the service finally reaches New Zealand. Unfortunately, TiVo comes with some caveats in...
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TiVo's Lawyers Trash EchoStar's Lawyers
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 26, 2008
It's not nice to steal intellectual property. That's what the U.S. District Court of Appeals said last month, ending a legal fistfight between TiVo and EchoStar. The court upheld a lower court ruling that the owner of the Dish Network infringed patents for a "multimedia time warping system."
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TiVo's Record Quarter
 |  Aug 25, 2003  |  First Published: Aug 26, 2003

<A HREF=http://www.tivo.com>TiVo</A> may be this year's hot ticket.

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TiVo, my TiVo, I'll never leave home without you.
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Jun 11, 2005
If only you could take your TiVo with you...
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