Based in New York and reporting directly to TiVo President and CEO Tom Rogers, Ms. Bressner brings to TiVo more than 25 years of experience in developing strategies for integrated sales efforts across national cable television, broadcast, and online. These efforts have resulted in significant growth in advertising revenue and a substantial increase in the national advertiser base in her prior positions.
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Sharing a little dark humor. It seems that this past Sunday morning a Seattle video retailer, Silver Platters, had one of their for stores burgled. The thieves made off with approximately $7,000 worth of high-definition discs.
The kicker? They cleaned out the Blu-ray stock – but left behind the HD DVD movies!
Man, that’s quite a dis. When thieves won’t touch your discs. Ouch, that burns. 
From The DVD Dossier by way of EngadgetHD.
The first fruits of a deal announced back at CES have begun to appear. HP is shipping the HP Pavilion HDX notebook with Sling Media’s SlingPlayer software pre-installed. More than that, a version of SlingPlayer is included in the QuickPlay applications which can be accessed without booting Windows. So you can fired up SlingPlayer immediately without the wait, and power draw, of Windows.
According to Sling Media, over time SlingPlayer will be built into all HP notebooks. Which is good, as the HDX is a monster with a 20.1″ screen, weighing in at 15.5 pounds, and a hefty USD$3000. More a vaguely portable desktop replacement than something you want to try taking on a business trip – unless you travel with a Sherpa.
There is some news on the HD DVD front too. Microsoft’s XBox 360 add-on HD DVD drive is dropping from $199 to $179 on August 1st, and they will extend Toshiba’s five free HD DVD ‘Perfect Offer’ to include the add-on.
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TiVo Shanan has posted her latest promo video to YouTube. This video for the new Verizon Wireless scheduling service appeared on TiVo units recently.
MarketWatch.com interviewed TiVo’s CEO, Tom Rogers, mainly on the new TiVo HD.
(The latter picked up from Troy on TiVo.)
