So I’m watching tonight’s premier of Law & Order: Trial By Jury and in one of Jerry Orbach’s first scenes (which, sadly, is one of his last scenes), and Lenny pops out with this line:

“No, I got TiVo! You push the magic button and there’s no commercials.”

If Lenny Briscoe has TiVo, that’s a ringing endorsement.

Cablevision Systems Corp., a New York-area cable television provider, is shutting down its high-definition satellite television service called Voom after failing to reach an agreement with its own chairman, who wanted to buy the remaining assets of the business.

TiVo is revving its patent engine to get a jump on the growing number of competitors in the market it pioneered.