Cablevision Systems Corporation, one of the nation’s leading entertainment and telecommunications companies, and TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO - News), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR), today announced an agreement to test market TiVo and a wireless router along with Cablevision’s triple play offer to current satellite customers.

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TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today reported financial results for the second quarter ended July 31, 2005. (PDF)

The Blu-ray Disc Association said Tuesday that it has settled upon the AACS rights-management system to secure its discs, together with an additional identification and update scheme.

Cebridge Connections, a provider of basic and digital cable television, and high-speed Internet services, and TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO ), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR), today announced an agreement that will offer up to 300,000 cable customers across the country an opportunity to receive TiVo® service.

Sounds like the recent tie-up with NCTC has its first pay-off. It may not be the same as landing a Comcast, but all told the small cable companies server over 20 million people. If TiVo can link up with a number of them, that’s a significant market to pursue.

Download the desktop here.
Sign up for the 7.2 Priority list here.

What’s the big deal? Well, 7.2 is available for *all* Series2 units, including the DVD-RW boxes, so they get to join the other boxes with USB2 and TiVoToGo support. Plus general performance improvements, bug fixes, etc.

The biggest feature with 7.2 + Desktop 2.2 ‘TiVoToComeBack’ is here - returning TTG .TiVo files to the TiVo, and even publishing your own MPEG2 files to use on the TiVo!

Additionally, 7.2 supports Network Guided Setup! Now you can do setup without a phone line, with any supported wired or wireless adapter. No more phone lines or back door codes!

I know the Mac users are probably upset there is no new Desktop for them yet. TiVo is working on bringing Mac support up to the level of Windows, it just takes a lot more work on the Mac. In the meantime I would suggest checking out Galleon as an alternative to TiVo Desktop, even for Windows.

Clear some extra space on the video shelf. The backers of Blu-ray and HD DVD are pushing ahead with product launches after failing to reach an agreement on merging the two next generation DVD formats.

Groups headed by Toshiba and Sony offering competing technologies for next-generation DVDs have given up efforts to develop a unified format, the Yomiuri newspaper reported Tuesday.

In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny - “Of course, you know, this means war!”

I still think Blu-ray will win in the end, but this is not the best outcome. This is going to confuse the HD media market for at least a year I’d say.

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TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO ), the pioneer in digital video recording (DVR) services, today announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed in full a favorable summary judgment ruling in the lawsuit filed against the Company in 2001 by Pause Technology LLC