It looks like Internet Superstar and Tekzilla were just the vanguard of the new Revision3 invasion. TiVo has just added three more Revision3 shows to TiVoCast:

Diggnation:

Diggnation is a weekly tech/web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories.

Subscribe online or on your TiVo via Find Programs & Downloads -> Download TV, Movies, & Web Video -> Browse Other Videos -> All -> Diggnation

The Totally Rad Show:

The Totally Rad Show is the summer blockbuster of geek news shows. Every week, hosts Alex Albrecht, Dan Trachtenberg, and Jeff Cannata rip into the world of movies, video games, tv, comics, and more and pull out what’s rad.

Subscribe online or on your TiVo via Find Programs & Downloads -> Download TV, Movies, & Web Video -> Browse Other Videos -> All -> The Totally Rad Show

Wine Library Reserve:

Gary Vaynerchuk, not your typical wine expert, describes what he tastes on the Internet’s most passionate wine program. Wine Library Reserve delivers the info on the wines of Wine Library TV in 5 minutes or less!

Subscribe online or on your TiVo via Find Programs & Downloads -> Download TV, Movies, & Web Video -> Browse Other Videos -> All -> Wine Library Reserve

Wine isn’t my thing, at all really, but I’ll be jumping on the first two. I hope they add the rest of the Revision3 lineup soon. Especially as I noticed The GigaOm Show was dropped from TiVo Web Video, where I’d been subscribed to it. (Fortunately it is on hiatus currently anyway.) Let’s get some popSiren in TiVoCast soon!

EchoStar Monday announced that they’ve signed a tru2way Host Device License Agreement with CableLabs, which allows them to implement devices using CableCARD and OCAP/tru2way. This may seem odd at first, since EchoStar is often conflated with DISH Network, but remember that EchoStar and DISH split into separate companies, and EchoStar is pursuing non-satellite markets such as OTA with the DTVPal (ironically being marketed by DISH Network) and cable with devices like the SlingModem, from EchoStar subsidiary Sling Media.

This license does open up new possibilities. A CableCARD-enabled Slingbox, perhaps. EchoStar could take their DVR platform, as used by DISH Network, and re-purpose it as a CableCARD DVR for cable MSOs and/or consumers. Something like the recently announced 722s DVR with built-in Slingbox & SlingCatcher features, only for cable, could be quite an interesting product. (Perhaps waiting for the final act in the DVR patent lawsuit with TiVo to remove any uncertainty for customers.) They could produce a whole new cable STB unrelated to any of their current platforms. It will certainly be interesting to see what they do with the license, I’m sure they didn’t sign it just for laughs.

Their press release is below:
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Amazon is holding another sale on Bluray, this time it is Buy Two, Get One Free on 14 Sony titles. The titles are Across the Universe, Spider-Man 3, Casino Royale, Superbad (2-Disc Unrated Extended Edition), The Fifth Element (Remastered), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition), Ghost Rider (Extended Cut), The Patriot (Extended Cut), Underworld Evolution, Black Hawk Down, We Own the Night, Surf’s Up, Kung Fu Hustle, and Spider-Man - The High Definition Trilogy (Spider-Man / Spider-Man 2 / Spider-Man 3).

Picked up from Blu-ray Stats News Log.