Category Archives: DVR

Virgin Media Announces Second Quarter Results, Says Nice Things About TiVo

Posted on Monday, August 1, 2011 by MegaZone

Last week Virgin Media announced their second quarter results, as covered in their press release. While the overall results were positive, I’m particularly interested in what they had to say about their newly launched TiVo service. They have a little … Continue reading →

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ReplayTV Service Gets a Last Minute Call From the Governor

Posted on Monday, August 1, 2011 by MegaZone

As I posted previously, the ReplayTV program information service was schedule to end on July 31st. That would’ve effectively killed the ability of remaining ReplayTV boxes to record, except for those owners who hacked their units to use unofficial data … Continue reading →

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ONO Bets on TiVo to Reverse Subscriber Slide

Posted on Saturday, July 30, 2011 by MegaZone

It looks like it is a good thing that ONO is on track to launch TiVo in Spain come September, they’re counting on the premium service to reverse a slide in subscriber count. While they’re the largest cable operator in … Continue reading →

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TiVo Australia Customers Warned to Expect a Week of Sporadic Outages Due to Maintenance

Posted on Saturday, July 30, 2011 by MegaZone

Hybrid Television Services, licensee and operator of the TiVo service in ANZ, has begun warning customers to expect sporadic service outages starting Wednesday, August 3rd and continuing through Monday, August 8th. There is a silver lining to the cloud; the … Continue reading →

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TiVo Cites NY Times In Urging FCC to Intensify CableCARD Oversight

Posted on Friday, July 29, 2011 by MegaZone

Apparently TiVo felt the same way that I did about a recent NY Times Gadgetwise Blog entry detailing the author’s difficulties in getting a TiVo Premiere provisioned with Time Warner Cable. The entry is typical of user complaints about cable … Continue reading →

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