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DVR Penetration To Hit 35% By 2012

ContentAgenda reports that DVR penetration will increase from 19% of TV households in 2007 to 35% by 2012, a net gain of 20 million DVRs, according to a new JupiterResearch report. The focus is, unsurprisingly, on the impact to advertising … Continue reading

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TiVo to Present at Citigroup’s 18th Annual Global Entertainment, Media & Telecommunications Conference

This is happening concurrent with CES, I’ll do my best to listen in. TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced that it will present at Citigroup’s 18th … Continue reading

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Motorola Announces MPEG-4 Cable STBs

I recently posted about the pending shift from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 for cable. Of course, part of that shift would have to be MPEG-4 capable cable set-top boxes. And now, according to MediaExperiences2Go, Motorola is ready to meet that need … Continue reading

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Barely Political Comes To TiVoCast

E. Stephen Mack announced the latest addition to the TiVoCast lineup, Barely Political. From their ‘about us‘ page: BarelyPolitical.com puts up weekly videos. Our debut video, Crush on Obama, was recently named one of 2007′s 10 best videos by Newsweek, … Continue reading

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New Chips From Broadcom And ViXS Point To Future DVRs

The CES press releases keep rolling, and both Broadcom and ViXS have announced new chips which have direct applications in the DVR market. This is particularly interesting to me as TiVo has been using Broadcom SoCs since the second spin … Continue reading

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