TiVo is looking to hire a TiVoCast Operations Program Manager. Hopefully that means the department is expanding and we’ll be seeing more content soon.

In a move that will largely determine the future of other partnerships and, potentially, the company’s success, the brand synonymous with digital video recording is inching closer to the real-world tryout for a deal first announced in 2005. In March of last year, TiVo signed a deal to put its technology inside set-top boxes from cable giant Comcast.

Yep, save $120 on the purchase of a new TiVo Series3. Dave Zatz posted the info over at ZatzNotFunny. The offer expires Sunday.

Nielsen has begun measuring playback on digital video recorders, and the first results are handing a big lift to some of TV’s top shows.

The dramatic boost some shows received indicates just how much of a paradigm shift DVRs are, even at their current low market penetration. DVRs are going to create huge changes in how networks program their shows.

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A truce between the Blu-ray and HD DVD worlds is still probably a way off, but NEC has come up with a chip that could help companies bridge the gap.

A unified controller chip isn’t really a big deal. There are many other components involved, and the licensing issues and political obstacles to a unified device are the real blockers.

Well, I was just wrapping up my evening when my S3 rebooted and installed a software update - it now has 8.0.1b-01-2-648. Since it was a minor bump (a to b), I expect it is just a minor bug fix update. I wonder what it fixed.

I’ll have to update the FAQ tomorrow (or later today I suppose, after sleep).

Consumers will have access to the first 50GB Blu-ray disc, which boasts twice the capacity of a regular disc, when Sony Pictures releases the Adam Sandler comedy “Click” on Tuesday.

TiVo Blog linked to a post in Troy On TiVo about some new advertising TiVo is doing. Apparently they have ads on the seat-back tray tables on USAirways. The ad is focused on TiVoToGo - which makes sense. “Hey, if you had TiVo and TTG, you could be watching your content right now” is what it comes down to. It looks like the offer, which linked to tivo.com/usairways, expired on September 15. But the page is still there - an 80-hour S2DT with a free TiVo WiFi adapter and one year of service for $254.00.

TiVoCast subscriptions are now controllable from TiVo Central Online. Check out the current lineup of CNet, iVillage, and Heavy here, along with the TiVoCast FAQs.

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