Hitachi-LG preps world’s first 4x Blu-ray burner

Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 by MegaZone

Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) will this month ship the world’s first 4x Blu-ray Disc recorder, it has been claimed. The higher speed applies only to recording – rewriteable BD-RE media will spin at the more commonplace 2x speed.

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Last chance! Get a free TiVo box today.

Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 by MegaZone

TiVo’s latest promo email…
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SPRITE’S “subLYMONal” ADVERTISING TO BE FEATURED ON TIVO

Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 by MegaZone

Sprite, America’s #1 lemon-lime soft drink and TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator and a leader in advertising solutions and television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced a partnership that will feature a cutting-edge interactive advertisement on a TiVo Showcase. Beginning July 24th and running for two weeks, the Showcase will feature a part of Sprite’s “subLYMONal” campaign. This is Sprite’s first interactive advertising run on the TiVo platform.

Well, it is a good thing that TiVo is landing more advertising partners. Growing and diversifying their revenue base is important.

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An upcoming Boston TiVo meetup

Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 by MegaZone

For the social TiVo owner there is a forum at TiVoCommunity.com for arranging meetups and the like. There is going to be one in my neck of the woods, in Boston (I live in Worcester, MA, close enough), August 11-13. People actually come from all over for some of the larger meets, of which this is one. But I know there are a lot of local folks too. It’d be nice to meet some of the local TiVo Lovers, so check out the thread and see if you might be interested. Also, as part of it, there is an effort to organize a group for the Boston Duck Tours. We could really use some more interested people, the more people, the better the discount. And if we get enough we can get a Duck just for the group.

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It looks like DirecTV is delaying the HR20 – again

Posted on Tuesday, July 25, 2006 by MegaZone

From an article in Forbes, it looks like the new HD DVR from DirecTV, the HR20, is being pushed back – again. That leaves the TiVo-based HR10-250 as their HD DVR for a longer period. Instead of just having TiVo develop a newer platform for the newer MPEG-4 HD channels, they had to go an reinvent the wheel with a non-TiVo platform. First the SD R15 was repeatedly delayed, and finally debuted to universally poor reviews when compared to the TiVo-based R10, and now the already-late HD box is going to be even later.

DirecTV really should’ve just stuck with TiVo.

(Picked up from PurePVR)

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