I was just looking at the info page and noticed we now have 400 people watching this community. I remember when it was less than 1/4 of that, and when I made this post in May 10th, 2004 and we had 179 people watching.

It is very cool to see more people joining the community, and it has been accelerating over time. If you know folks who use TiVo and LJ, let them know about the community. The more, the merrier.

TiVo seems to be stepping up the marketing efforts again. They’ve started running TV ads again. And there are two interesting promos:

Get a 40-hour TiVo Series2 DVR and one year of TiVo service FREE with the purchase of an iriver PMC-120 at the iriver America eStore. A $350 value, FREE!

Buy $100 of Dockers Men’s Qualifying Apparel and/or Accessories Between September 25th and September 28th, 2005 and Receive a Free TiVo Series2 40-Hour DVR and 3 Months of Free Service.

Dave Zatz, who has provided fantastic resources for making the most out of TiVoToGo, PC to TiVo, and TiVo HME, has started a new blog at ZatzNotFunny.com. I’ve syndicated it on LJ as zatznotfunny.

TiVo, XM Satellite and other companies are scrambling to find new direct-shipping partners after the sudden closure of a Tennessee-based outsourcing firm over the weekend.

This doesn’t seem like that big a deal for TiVo overall, especially given this:

The unexpected shutdown was negligible, TiVo’s Sloan said, commenting that there was “no disruption in shipping with any recently ordered products.” The company, however, expects to announce a new distribution partner later this week, he said.