Philips, Lite-on, BenQ prep Blu-ray drives

Philips this week launched its first Blu-ray Disc drive, and was quickly followed by Lite-on and BenQ. Both the Philips and the Lite-on models are due to ship in the UK in August, the two companies said separately.

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New features showing up at TiVo.com

TiVo KidZone Quick Start guide is up. (PDF) Seems like the software update will be following soon.

Guru Guides are now online.

What They’re Watching is now active too. (Basically TiVo using stars list the shows they recommend.)

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PCs’ key role in HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray war

PCs are emerging as a battleground in the budding war between two technologies vying to be the standard for high-capacity DVDs–and take the lucrative mantle of next benchmark in optical storage.

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TiVo Statement on Parental Control in Assuring Quality Television for Their Children

Tom Rogers, President and Chief Executive Officer of TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR), today offered the following comment on the public policy forum “Beyond Censorship: Policies and Technologies to Give Parents Control Over Children’s Media Consumption” hosted by the New America Foundation in Washington, DC. Leading speakers include FCC Commissioners Deborah Tate and Michael Copps, Senators Hillary Clinton and Mary Landrieu, and the Kaiser Family Foundation’s children’s media research leader Vicky Rideout. Senior TiVo executives are participating in the forum.

“We commend the officials, citizen and industry leaders at today’s
forum on these critical issues. With our diverse group of expert
public interest partners, we are delighted that in the near future we
will provide parents with a marketplace solution that does more than
simply stop children from watching inappropriate programming — it
also makes it easy for them to choose the best programming on
television.”

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TIVO ANNOUNCES REVOLUTIONARY NEW SERVICE, TIVOCAST; BRINGING BROADBAND VIDEO CONTENT TO THE TV

TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR), today announced the launch of TiVoCastâ„¢, a revolutionary new service which will deliver broadband video directly to the television sets of TiVo subscribers. The TiVoCast service turns Web video into television by bringing top broadband content now only available on the PC to the TV set.

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