Save 30% On Nero Move It

Posted on Monday, November 17, 2008 by MegaZone

Nero Move it was announced in September at the same time as LiquidTV | TiVo PC. It is designed to make it easy to manage media files and move and sync them between mobile devices. These days many people have multiple mobile devices – cell phones, iPods, portable media players (PMPs), Sony PSPs, etc. Move it makes it easy to manage content on all of them, and now you can save 30% when you buy. You pay just $27.99 instead of the $39.99 MSRP.

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Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian At NewTeeVee Live

Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 by MegaZone

NeeTeeVee just held their second annual NewTeeVee Live event bringing together leading players in online video. And one of the speakers at the show was Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian. He had a ‘Fireside Chat’ with Om Malik, which has been posted in NewTeeVee, as a well as in the video below:

He also did a ‘Red Carpet Interview’ at the show:

All of the videos from the conference are available online.

Disclaimer: I work for Sling Media, so Blake is my boss. ;-)

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TiVoCast Enters REHAB With truTV And Plays With StreetFire TV

Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 by MegaZone

TiVo has added some more content to TiVoCast. First up, they’ve partnered with truTV (formerly CourtTV) to launch a new channel. The first show to join the channel is truTV’s new program REHAB: Party at the Hard Rock Hotel. The TiVoCast channel brings short clips of REHAB content to your TiVo.

Subscribe online or on your TiVo via Find Programs & Downloads -> Download TV, Movies, & Web Video -> Browse Free Videos -> All -> REHAB

More truTV content will be added in the coming weeks, and you’ll be able to see all the offerings for the channel online, or on your TiVo via Subscribe online or on your TiVo via Find Programs & Downloads -> Download TV, Movies, & Web Video -> Browse Free Videos -> All -> truTV

TiVoCast is also adding StreetFire TV, the video blogs from StreetFire.net. StreetFire TV brings you the best of the videos from StreetFire.net. As they say:

Streetfire.net is the web’s premier automotive enthusiast community. With millions of streams of video, photos, profiles and more, Streetfire is built for those that love cars, trucks and motorcycles.

Subscribe online or on your TiVo via Find Programs & Downloads -> Download TV, Movies, & Web Video -> Browse Free Videos -> All -> StreetFire TV

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Foxtel Chief Exec Takes A Swipe At TiVo

Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 by MegaZone

Foxtel is TiVo’s primary competitor in Australia. While TiVo is sold by Seven Network and is a ‘free to air’ DVR used with broadcast TV, with no subscription fees, Foxtel’s iQ/iQ2 DVRs are used with Foxtel’s pay TV service. It is akin to DirecTV or Dish Network in the US, and beyond the initial acquisition fees there are ongoing monthly fees, which can be quite steep if you want the full range of channels. According to the Herald Sun, Foxtel chief executive Kim Williams took an opportunity to throw some FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) in TiVo’s direction:

[F]or Seven Network, “the horse has bolted”.

“The iQ is the industry standard,” Mr Williams said.

“I see TiVo as a latecomer with little to recommend it.”

Sounds to me like someone is worried, you don’t need to take swipes like this at a competitor if they’re really no threat to your business.

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Is Charter Losing Their Moxi?

Posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 by MegaZone

Despite the recent announcement the Digeo Moxi 3012 HD DVR has been picked up by BendBroadband in Oregon, the overall signs have not been good. The 3012 missed it’s 3Q08 shipping target with Charter Communications, and now it sounds like it may never be deployed. Indeed, Charter may eventually phase out all Moxi systems entirely, according to this post in AVS Forum by a Charter employee:

1) Death of the Moxi
This one’s just as much a rumor as the Launch of the BMC 3012
However here we are, with systems announcing year end lock downs etc and still no official hint of the 3012. As such I’m pretty much guessing it’s never left internal beta in St. Louis. Furthermore comments made from management recently here (SC/NC/VA group) indicate Moxi *WILL* be eventually phased out.

However at the same time, apparently we are apparently getting BMC9012s THROWN at us as no other MSO appears to be taking them. So for now the BMC9012 is alive and strong… I don’t forsee them closing up shop in markets with Moxi for quite a while (given we can’t get enough 6416s in to meet demand).

That being said, my “insider’s guess” at what’s going to happen next -
I predict no NEW MSO based Moxi boxes, but I also predict that Moxi will remain availible for at least 2 more years.

Hopefully DIGEO will get on the ball with the CableCard enabled boxes for retail, because from what I’ve seen, it seems like Charter was the last major MSO to hang on…

Thanks to Dave Zatz of Zatz Not Funny for the tip off.

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