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About MegaZone

MegaZone is the Editor of Gizmo Lovers and the chief contributor. He's been online since 1989 and active in several generations of 'social media' - mailing lists, USENet groups, web forums, and since 2003, blogging.    MegaZone has a presence on several social platforms: Google+ / Facebook / Twitter / LinkedIn / LiveJournal / Web.    You can also follow Gizmo Lovers on other sites: Blog / Google+ / Facebook / Twitter.

Netflix On TiVo Promo Spot

Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 by MegaZone

TiVoShanan has posted the promo video she did for Netflix on TiVo, which appeared on the TiVo itself to announce the feature launch.

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TiVo Unveils An All-New Search Interface – Which Is Familiar

Posted on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 by MegaZone

Well, would you look at that, TiVo just unveiled an all new search interface – but astute readers will recognize it immediately as a variation of the interface design which leaked back in September. TiVo was kind enough to give … Continue reading →

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Roxio Launches Toast 10 Titanium, Adds Transfers To TiVo

Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 by MegaZone

Roxio Monday launched Toast 10 Titanium for Mac OS. This new update to Toast adds a number of features, but most significantly for Mac OS users it includes an implementation of ‘TiVoToComeBack’, video transfers to a TiVo, which they’re calling … Continue reading →

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DivX Releases DivX 7, Closes The Circle

Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 by MegaZone

DivX has come full circle, what started out as a reverse engineered version of Microsoft’s non-compliant implementation of MPEG-4 Version 3 over ten years ago with DivX 3.11 is now a full-featured product based on H.264 (aka MPEG-3 AVC) with … Continue reading →

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Broadcom Brings Adobe Flash To TVs And STBs

Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 by MegaZone

Broadcom has partnered with Adobe to embed Adobe Flash Lite 3 into several of their latest System-on-a-chip (SoC) platforms for TVs and STBs. This will allow vendors who use Broadcom’s chips to easily add Flash support to their products. Along … Continue reading →

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