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Charter TiVo – Today Ft. Worth, TX, Tomorrow the World!

Posted on Sunday, November 6, 2011 by MegaZone

OK, not quite today, but soon. Back in January Charter & TiVo announced an agreement under which Charter would offer TiVo hardware to their customers, just as RCN, Suddenlink, and Grande Communications do. And with their quarterly financial announcement last … Continue reading →

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Is TiVo Already Working on the Series5 – or should I say Series4S?

Posted on Saturday, October 8, 2011 by MegaZone

Sorry, I couldn’t resist the iPhone joke in the title. More seriously, I’m sure TiVo is working on the next generation of product. The TiVo Premiere Elite ships Monday, or so it seems. But it takes months, even a year … Continue reading →

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Is Bright House Networks Trying to Scare TiVo CableCARD Customers Into Switching STBs?

Posted on Monday, September 19, 2011 by MegaZone

Bright House Networks customer Samuel Biller has been receiving letters from Bright House Networks about their deployment of Switched Digital Video (SDV) which are worded such that it sounds like if he doesn’t switch to a Bright House provided digital … Continue reading →

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Time Warner Cable Responds to TiVo’s Response to a NY Times Blog Entry about an Incident with Time Warner Cable. Whew!

Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2011 by MegaZone

Back in mid-July the NY Times Gadgetwise Blog ran an entry about the bad experience the author had getting Time Warner Cable to install a CableCARD in this new TiVo Premiere. It reads like a summary of every complaint users … Continue reading →

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EFF Campaign to Stop the FCC from Granting Integration Ban Waivers to Cable MSOs

Posted on Friday, August 12, 2011 by MegaZone

I noticed something odd today, three nearly identical comments filed on FCC proceeding 97-80 (1,2,3). I knew someone must be coordinating the comments, so I searched, and sure enough, it if an effort organized by the EFF. The body of … Continue reading →

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