TiVo Taps Tara Maitra to Advance Content Strategy

TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO ), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR), today announced the appointment of Tara Maitra as vice president, general manager of content services. In this role, Ms. Maitra will be responsible for developing unique content offerings for broadband delivery and relationships with content companies. She will report to Edward Lichty, vice president of corporate development.

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TiVo NetFlix RSS Reader

If you are a NetFlix user, you probably have wanted to be able to take a look at your NetFlix account directly from your TV. This application allows you to do just that. NetFlix provides a lot of your account information in “RSS” format, which can easily be translated into screen you can view from your TiVo.

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A nice blog entry on TiVo

TiVo Ain’t Dead Yet – Apple Don’t Own Video Podcasting

One thing I learned reading that, that somehow I hadn’t heard of yet, is that TiVo is working with Commission Junction, and online marketing company. If you have a site and use them for your ads, TiVo is one of their advertisers, and they’re offering 7% of the take from sales via the ads. Not bad.

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Networks: TiVo may not be the enemy after all

Far from being the TV doomsday machines that some have predicted, digital video recorders that allow viewers to skip advertising and watch shows at their leisure will actually boost television audiences, the major networks said on Wednesday.

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Networks defend home recording

The largest US broadcast television networks on Wednesday united to mount a defence against claims about TiVo and other digital video recording devices.

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