To combat ‘NFL exodus,’ church subsidizes TiVos

Sometimes while scouring the net for TiVo news I find some interesting stuff. :-)

For Red Oak Nazarene church, autumn attendance rises and falls on the Cleveland Browns’ football schedule.
“There’s nothing like preaching to a half-full sanctuary on opening day,” says pastor James Wilson. “Every September, we lose the men.”
This year Wilson bought a stack of TiVo players, placed them in the foyer and offered subsidized TiVo membership to any member in good standing. Seventy-five families so far have availed themselves of the offer.
As a result, “The men are back,” says Wilson. And they express a new camaraderie.
“Guys ask each other before church, ‘You set your TiVo?’” says one diehard Browns fan and church member.
The church now prints the Browns’ schedule in the bulletin for the coming week and offers a class on how to use the TiVo device.
Wilson is considering extending the offer to youth and women who miss their mid-week meetings to catch favorite shows.

Oh, and you might want to read this. ;-)

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TiVo Series 3 Unboxed

It looks like someone got their hands on a TiVo Series3 in the production packaging. And they posted photos of it on PVRWire.

A little teaser.

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Warner Bros. to release 10 high-definition films

Warner Home Video said on Wednesday it will release 10 high-definition titles on Sept. 26, including six in the Blu-ray format and four in the competing HD DVD format.

Blu-ray is a high-definition standard backed by Sony, while HD DVD was developed by a Toshiba-led consortium. The Time Warner unit will release on Blu-ray “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride,” “Swordfish,” “Space Cowboys,” “Lethal Weapon 2,” “The Fugitive” and “House of Wax.” Making their HD DVD debuts are “The Dirty Dozen,” “Grand Prix,” “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” and “The Adventures of Robin Hood.”

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Announces Availability of Blu-ray Disc Titles Internationally

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TiVo KidZone promo video on YouTube

This has been bouncing around the net for a few days and I keep forgetting to post about it. There is a video on YouTube of Shanan from TiVo explaining KidZone. It is about 5 minutes long and it does a decent job of showing the features.

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