Category Archives: TiVo

Galleon development to restart?

Alex of TiVoBlog alerted me to his most recent post. He noticed a recent post on the Galleon forum by a John Kohl, stating that Galleon development is going to restart. For those who don’t know, Galleon is one of … Continue reading

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Would you like a 2TB Series3?

The standard Series3 comes with a 250GB drive. Resellers like DVRupgrade have been selling expanded units with up to 1TB of internal storage. And, just a month ago, the TiVo hacking community published the Kickstart 62 code to enable eSATA. … Continue reading

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Are Best Buy and Blockbuster getting into video downloads?

Ars Technica is reporting that Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer let slip some information that indicates Best Buy and Blockbuster are going to enter the video download market. “We have nearly a dozen active agreements in place for digital delivery of … Continue reading

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TiVo and GPLv3

OK, I saw this article and some others in the past week. The GPLv3 is the General Public License, version 3. What is it? The GPL is the license that covers a great deal of open source software or free … Continue reading

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Sling Media releases Windows Virtual Remote Update 1.0

Previously Sling Media only updated the remote control collection in SlingPlayer whenever SlingPlayer itself was updated. However, that’s hasn’t been often enough. New devices are released regularly, and it also meant that new remote codes could be held up for … Continue reading

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