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TiVo Teams Up With CBS SportsLine Fantasy Football

Posted Thursday, September 7th, 2006 at 23:58 by MegaZone. Filed under Press Release, TiVo

TiVo Inc, the creator of and the leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), and CBS SportsLine, a leading Internet sports media organization and part of CBS Digital Media, announced today that CBS SportsLine Fantasy Football Companion can be accessed from any television connected to a broadband-enabled TiVo® Series2™ DVR. Registered users of CBS SportsLine Fantasy Football can manage their leagues, check stats and scores, and watch highlights from the comfort of their living rooms with their TiVo remote control. CBS SportsLine and TiVo are creating a new form of interactive sports programming for subscribers.

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iinnovate interviews TiVo Co-founder Mike Ramsay

Posted Thursday, September 7th, 2006 at 05:31 by MegaZone. Filed under TiVo

iinnovate has the interview posted as an MP3 file.

Picked up from TiVo Blog

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TiVo offers lifetime transfers to the Series3

Posted Thursday, September 7th, 2006 at 01:24 by MegaZone. Filed under TiVo

Some folks at TiVoCommunity.com caught TiVo’s Teleworld broadcast this morning. The Teleworld broadcast is how TiVo gets video to the boxes for those TiVo Central promotions with the gold star or TiVo logo next to them. The box records them, but they don’t show up until later when the daily download triggers the new promotion.

Well, some folks caught the broadcast ‘live’ and it was Shanan promoting the new Series3, which is expected any day now. The big news - TiVo is going to offer a lifetime transfer from a Series1 or Series2 box for a one time fee of $199. PLUS they throw in a free year of service on the old box. So if you have a box with lifetime on it, you buy a new S3, pay $199 - and get lifetime on the S3 and another year on the old box. This is a limited time promo - you must purchase the S3 by 12/31/06, and transfer lifetime by 1/31/07. The catch is that the MSRP of the S3 is expected to be $799.99, so you’ll probably be paying a good price to be an early adopter and get the transfer. (Of course, I paid over $1000 for my Pioneer DVR-810H with lifetime because I jumped on it early too.) The URL http://www.tivo.com/VIP was given - but right now it is still pointing to an info sign up. It probably won’t be ‘live’ until the promo shows up officially.

A few other new details from the broadcast - the box is THX certified and the remote is a learning remote.

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