Author Archives: MegaZone

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.

Macrovision buying BD+

Posted on Monday, November 19, 2007 by MegaZone

TradingMarkets reports that Macrovision is buying BD+ from Cryptography Research, Inc for $45 million. Well, technically they are buying “certain technology assets”, which will include owning Self-Protecting Digital Content (SPDC), which is the basis for BD+ as used on Blu-ray … Continue reading →

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Very last minute – Amazon Blu-ray one day sale, today

Posted on Monday, November 19, 2007 by MegaZone

Sorry, I just stumbled over this myself: Amazon is selling Fox/MGM Blu-ray titles for 55% off! The catch is, this is a One-Day Sale, and that day is today. So you only have a few hours left to jump on … Continue reading →

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Roxio updates Toast & Popcorn, fixes TiVo compatibility issues

Posted on Monday, November 19, 2007 by MegaZone

Roxio has released Toast 8.0.3 (which also includes TiVo Transfer 1.1.1 and Toast Video Player 1.0.2) as well as Popcorn 3.0.2 which, amongst other things, fixes compatibility issues with TiVo units that arose after the 9.1/9.2 software updates, and also … Continue reading →

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Playing High-Def Downloads on your TiVo using a Mac

Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 by MegaZone

Reader Michael Alderete sent me a pointer to a blog post in which he details the process he uses to download high-def content via BitTorrent and than converts and transfers it to his TiVo for viewing, via his Mac. As … Continue reading →

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Washington State University helps promote TiVo to students

Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 by MegaZone

WSU Housing Services and partner Campus Televideo are offering WSU students TiVo on campus. Students who are interested will pay a discounted rate of $125 for one year of service, and will receive a free 80-hour Series2DT TiVo. The new … Continue reading →

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