Category Archives: DVR

Sherman, set the WABAC machine to 1999!

Posted on Friday, September 16, 2011 by MegaZone

TechnoBuffalo had a great post today with a look back at the very, very early days of the DVR via this video from The Today Show in 1999. This is when DVRs, then still generally called PVRs (Personal Video Recorders), … Continue reading →

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TiVo President and CEO Tom Rogers to Present at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference

Posted on Thursday, September 15, 2011 by MegaZone

TiVo President and CEO Tom Rogers will be presenting at the 20th Annual Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference on Tuesday, September 20, 2011. A webcast of the presentation will be made available online at http://investor.tivo.com/ Conference Details: 20th Annual Goldman Sachs … 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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New Netgear N900 Wireless Router Offers Extreme Performance

Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 by MegaZone

Remember the top end Netgear N600 router I reported on just a couple of weeks ago? Forget it, it is obsolete. While the N600 was a dual-band (2.4GHz & 5GHz) router which offered 300Mbps in each band, or 600Mbps today, … Continue reading →

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The Channel Master TV CM-7400, an OTA DVR Alternative to TiVo?

Posted on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 by MegaZone

Channel Master is probably best known for the CM-7000PAL OTA DVR, which was better known as the Dish Network DTVPal DVR when it launched back in 2008 to coincide with the digital broadcast transition. It is still out there, still … Continue reading →

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