A Hollywood proposal to block DVR recording capability on some cable-distributed movies has been met with alarm by NATO—that is, the National Association of Theater Owners.

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By integrating digital video recording (DVR) features into Apple TV, Apple stands to transform it's niche media hub business into a serious growth driver worth over a billion dollars annually, according to one Wall Street analyst.

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Apparently TiVo sent around an email notifying its loyal overpaying customers that it's shutting down the TiVo Rewards program on May 28th of this year.

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There's been a definite trend towards service integration at TiVo lately, with quite a string of partnerships to show for it: the company's gotten in bed with Music Choice, Picasa / Photobucket and Nero in the past couple weeks, not to mention the finally-happening Comcast rollou …

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It has been a good week for TiVo. The company won a major victory from the US Patent and Trademark Office when a key patent was upheld, signed a deal to bring the TiVo experience to the PC desktop starting some time next year, and announced better-than-expected quarterly earnings.

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We've already heard about some of TiVo's plans for two-way communications, and it now looks like the company has used its third quarter earnings to drop a few more hints on the matter, including word of what sounds an awful lot like a Series 4 box.

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TiVo is poised to break out from the confines of the set-top box and into the PC. The DVR maker and Nero, creators of the popular CD- and DVD-burning software, are partnering to bring TiVo to upcoming versions of Nero.

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Things have not been going well for TiVo (TIVO) lately.

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This IS NOT speculation on what we'll see on Sept. 5th. This weekend I was thinking about the NBC vs. Apple thing, after explaining it to relatives, and a thought occurred to me… There has been long standing rumor and speculation that Apple would turn the AppleTV into a DVR.

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My Series 1 TiVo is getting old, so I am planning an escape route based on MythTV, a free software system that turns an old computer into a personal video recorder. This week I tested three MythTV-specific Linux distributions: KnoppMyth, MythDora, and MythBuntu.

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DVRs have earned the enmity of broadcasters and advertisers alike by enabling viewers to easily skip their least favorite bit of the TV watching experience, commercials.

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Two years ago, one in every 13 homes had a digital video recorder. Now, make that one in every five homes. Leichman Research Group is out with a study that details how much the TiVo and its ilk are changing the viewing landscape. From their press release:

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PlayStation 3 (PS3) users in Europe will soon be able to record and playback digital TV on their console. Sony has unveiled a TV tuner which plugs into the PS3 and turns it into a personal video recorder like Sky+.

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As I previously reported the new TiVo HD has suffered from some video issues, primarily macroblocking on digital channels. TiVo released an update, 8.1.7b1-01-2-652, on August 1st to correct some of the video issues.

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The recently launched TiVo HD has DirecTV's leadership itching to look like anything other than a dead end for TiVo fans. Come 2008, DirecTV's TiVo users will get a major update to their DVRs. The message from DirecTV HQ appears to be "don't bail on us yet, TiVo users."

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TiVo's survival depends on cable. Cable has limited incentives to see it succeed.

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NETWORK Ten chief executive Grant Blackley has poured cold water on suggestions Ten will sign a deal involving Seven Media's personal video recorder, TiVo.

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The DVR pioneer hopes to gain customers with its price-slashed TiVo HD, but subscription costs and shrinking market share remain concerns.

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Thanks to John Czwartacki, Mari and I recently converged on Verizon's corporate HQ in New Jersey for some hands on time with FiOS TV 2.0 (aka Interactive Media Guide, aka IMG). As with Digeo's Moxi, Verizon has really enriched and modernized the DVR interface.

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TiVo owners can easily skip past the commercials, but the dirty little secret is that they don't - surprisingly often.

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Americans love television, but we hate commercials. But love 'em or hate 'em, the ads that interrupt our favorite shows for around 16 minutes of every hour have been the price we pay for free programming.

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Mythbuntu is an Ubuntu derivative focused upon setting up a standalone MythTV system similar to Knoppmyth or Mythdora. At the time, it is not a Canonical sanctioned project because of the licensing on several of the MythTV dependencies.

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MythTV, the popular Linux based PVR project, has been around for some time. It's nice, and it functions well, but it's only as functional as Windows Media Center Edition plus, it can be difficult to install and configure.

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IN A MOVE THAT IS likely to have significant implications for the way advertisers and media planners think about audience shares for traditional television dayparts, Nielsen Thursday released the first snapshot of a new measurement service tracking the burgeoning market of video  …

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Battle of Open Source and Proprietary DVRs After releasing the initial comparison of MythTV and TiVo Series 3, there were just a few (hundred) comments about the article complaining that the original article lacked some comparison information.

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