The TiVoToGo announcement

Posted on Monday, January 3, 2005 by MegaZone

See this thread at TiVoCommunity.com for more information about TTG.

I’m off to CES in Vegas in 12 hours. The show is 6-9th. I’ll post any news from the show.

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JVC previews Blu-ray DVD combo

Posted on Thursday, December 30, 2004 by MegaZone

A new Blu-ray and DVD hybrid disc could bring some relief to consumers weary of the format war, but will it be enough for the increasingly fractured market?

Another article that appeared today.

Something else occurred to me – there is another good use for these discs. Imagine a movie released on Blu-ray, with the associated game on the DVD layers. Or any kind of added content. It could make for some pretty sweet extras on Blu-ray releases.

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The Gift You Really Wanted — A TiVo Box

Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 by MegaZone

TiVo’s post-xmas sales pitch…
Continue reading →

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JVC Develops Dual Blu-ray-DVD Disc

Posted on Wednesday, December 29, 2004 by MegaZone

Company is not saying when the technology will be commercialized.

Also: JVC Develops Dual-Format DVD/Blu-ray Disc

Ha! This is sweet – and exactly what I speculated on after the HD-DVD announcement. I guess they *can* put BD content in front of DVD content. Isn’t light great? And this gives them a leg up on HD-DVD. Why the HD-DVD/DVD hybrid is basically a dual-layer DVD physically, with one DVD layer and one HD-DVD layer, this is a full dual-layer DVD *plus* BD. The HD-DVD/DVD can only hold 15GB HD and 4.7GB DVD – this disc can do 25GB HD and 8.5GB DVD. So studios wouldn’t have to compromise – most releases today are on DVD9, not DVD5. With the HD-DVD hybrid they’d have to turn up the compression and/or make very bare-bones releases. And JVC is working on a 50GB/8.5GB version – so there’d be *no* compromise on either side. Full dual-layer HD and full dual-layer DVD.

I think this is just one more way in which BD is superior to HD-DVD.

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An xmas request

Posted on Saturday, December 25, 2004 by MegaZone

I bet a lot of people will be getting TiVo’s today. And a lot of them will be looking for help and advice – but most of them will probably not know about tivolovers, let alone all the links on the community info page.

To help all the newbies out, it would be nice if the members of the community would post something in their own LJ letting people know about the community. Just something short, like “If you have a TiVo, you should check out tivolovers“. You can do that kind of community link this way: <lj comm=”tivolovers”> Spread the word and we can help more people get the most from their TiVos. Thanks.

I hope everyone is having a fun and safe holiday.

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