Monthly Archives: June 2006

TiVo Converter Wrapper

Posted on Wednesday, June 28, 2006 by MegaZone

Well, that didn’t take long. TiVo user Todd D. Perlmutter took the TiVo Converter hacks that Dave Zatz discovered and wrote a wrapper to make it easy. So now you can convert .tivo files to any of the profiles in … Continue reading →

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Toshiba open to re-opening HD DVD/Blu-ray merger talks

Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2006 by MegaZone

Toshiba has once again said it’s open to the development of a single, unified next-generation optical disc format to end the battle between the HD DVD format it backs and the Sony-led Blu-ray Disc camp. I guess it is current. … Continue reading →

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Toshiba wants unified DVD format

Posted on Tuesday, June 27, 2006 by MegaZone

Toshiba said Tuesday it would still like to develop a unified format for advanced optical DVD discs, but two competing–and incompatible–products are likely to hit the market at first. Weird, this article sounds like it fell through a time warp … Continue reading →

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Using TiVo Desktop 2.3 to transcode prior downloads

Posted on Monday, June 26, 2006 by MegaZone

Dave Zatz at ZatzNotFunny has found a way to use the new TiVo Desktop 2.3 to transcode previously transferred recordings, and to use different profiles that the defaults in the UI. By default Desktop Plus 2.3 only transcodes new recordings … Continue reading →

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Toshiba’s $499 HD DVD player costs ‘over $700 to make’

Posted on Saturday, June 24, 2006 by MegaZone

Toshiba is subsidising its HD-A1 HD DVD player by at least $175 in a bid to buy the next-generation optical disc format success. So claims market watcher iSuppli, which took the machine to bits and totted up the cost of … Continue reading →

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