Posted Friday, November 21st, 2008 at 07:26 by MegaZone. Filed under TiVo Tags: newsletter, TiVo
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| The TiVo Newsletter | Volume 123 |
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Letter From the Editor
Here’s a little trivia for you: You (the broadband-connected you, that is) are now connected to the world’s largest Video on Demand library in the world, brought to you by TiVo!
And my, my, from movie titles to tickle the indie/international film freak, to Disney® classics for the whole family, TiVo truly has something for the movie-lover in all of us. This, on top of all the Hollywood blockbusters you can rent or buy through Amazon Video On Demand, and all the music videos you can muster through Music Choice on TiVo, of course, and yet that’s still not all…
Starting next month, all TiVo® HD customers* are going to fall in love with Netflix® all over again (it’s even better the second time around!) when you can send more than 12,000 movie and TV episodes straight to your living room using just your TiVo remote - learn more. Don’t have TiVo HD yet? At tivo.com you can pick up a “pre-loved” TiVo HD DVR for only $179.99.
Instead of long lines at the Cineplex, doesn’t a night at home with loved ones, home-popped popcorn and movies on TiVo sound both priceless and cozy?
To the modern movie marquee, thanks to TiVo,
Shanan
P.S. — Don’t forget to “share the love” on tivo.com where you can tell us how TiVo has changed your TV-watching life. Your brief quote will be published on our website to share with others in our great big TiVo family!
*Netflix available on TiVo HD, TiVo HD XL and TiVo Series3 DVRs. |
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Save big on HDTVs and get $100 off TiVo HD at Best Buy!
 Buying a TV this holiday season? You’ll save big on both HDTVs and
TiVo HD at Best Buy.
For a limited time, buy any HDTV at Best Buy or Best Buy Online and get $100 off your TiVo HD or TiVo HDXL. Shop now!
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Hollywood, Bollywood, and a fairy tale or two…
Our library doesn’t just keep getting bigger; it also gets better and better with new partners like Walt Disney Studios powered by CinemaNow and Jaman adding sugar and spice to TiVo’s already flavorful mix of movies.
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Oh, Ratatouille! You can rent new hit movies and
some of your favorite Walt Disney® Studios films. |
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Naan Too Soon… Jaman specializes in award-winning independent and foreign films—including the world’s largest Bollywood collection! Might as well get your 2 free movie rentals just for trying Jaman today.
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Coming next month…. Netflix® movies on TiVo!
 In case you missed it the first mention, starting next month, TiVo HD customers will be able to access more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes from Netflix via any broadband-connected TiVo HD, TiVo HD XL and TiVo Series3 DVRs.
Sign up (www.tivo.com/netflix) and we’ll keep you in the loop on all the Netflix on TiVo details.
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Post Election Bash or Blues?
No matter what your political persuasion, you’ll find a few good films in our Post-Election Selections episode of “The Badoop Badoop Show,” now available on YouTube, iTunes, MySpace or Facebook. Don’t miss the TiVo Tips at the end of every episode!
And just in case you wondered what would happen if actors played presidents in real life (didn’t we try that already?), you should know that Harrison Ford, for his role in 1997’s Air Force One, beat out 16 candidates in AOL Moviefone’s poll to reveal the best fictional movie president Americans would like to see in the real-life Oval Office.
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TiVo Tip: It’s a numbers thing
Here are two ways to tidy up your Now Playing List if you have a Series2™ or later model TiVo DVR:
- Press 1 on your remote’s numeric keypad to toggle between alphabetical view and recording-date.
- Press 2 to turn folders on and off; this feature groups all Daily Show episodes, for example, into one folder, or lets ‘em loose — whichever you prefer.
While you’re having fun with numbers, try similar shortcuts on the TiVo Central screen. For example, press 1 to jump to the Season Pass Manager, press 2 to bring up the To Do List, or press 4 to Search by Title. Think “search 4 (four)”.
 For Tips & Tricks, to access your account, share your TiVo story (NEW!), and much more, you’ll love MyTiVo.
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Thanksgiving Guru Guide is here!
 Never mind the poor turkey! Fatten up your TiVo DVR with some appetizing TV, automatically served up to your Now Playing List with these Thanksgiving Guru Guides. Get the whole guide or just pluck the programming you want.
Sports Nut? Don’t miss the best of the NBA and College Basketball with our Thanksgiving Sports Guru Guide.
If you’re broadband-connected, you’ll find TiVo Guru Guides on your DVR (under Find Programs & Downloads > KidZone Recommendations & Guru Guides). If not, we’ve queued them up for your online-scheduling pleasure.
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Clone Wars™
Now Available
for Rental!
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Rent or buy movies without ever leaving
your couch!
Thousands of top movies and TV shows to download directly to the Now Playing List on your TiVo DVR from Amazon Video On Demand™.
 Learn how to try it yourself. |
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Get 5 FREE Movies When You Get Connected!
A broadband connected TiVo DVR does more than record your favorite TV shows. Get movies, music, photos, web videos, and more when you get connected.
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November 21st, 2008 at 09:34
Nice job Tivo.
Abandon your Series 2 customers.
The cable company’s free DVR is looking better all the time.
November 21st, 2008 at 09:54
MG, as it has been stated many times before the Series 2 just doesn’t have the same functionality as a TiVo HD/HDXL/Series3 does. For lack of a better explanation, the Series 2 is DEAD. It still works just fine for what the system can do, but it is not compatible with anything that TiVo will be adding onto the Newer models. I realized this 10 months ago and I think everyone else needs to come to this realization now.
END RANT.
November 21st, 2008 at 12:13
“Dead” is a bit harsh. I mean, it’s not like they’ve all suddenly stopped working, or the company’s stopped providing program guide information for them.
Anyway, sure, it’d be nice if there were a standard-definition unit with the same bells and whistles as the HD models, but there’s no future in that. It’d be like making a massively multiplayer online game client for TRS-DOS.
November 21st, 2008 at 15:22
Considering the fact that tivo just put out an update for the S2 and S2DT I would say that it is far from dead and that your not getting any new features. What your not getting are the features that would crash your Tivo. the best equivalent i can give is this it would be like running windows xp on a pentium 2 you definitely can do it but just barely and it will be really crashy and slow. So here is the great thing about the HD you don’t have to have an HD tv for it to work. just record all standard def programming. Finally if your upset the S2 isn’t getting the shiny features how is going with a cable dvr that doesn’t even the the features the current S2 has. I would prefer a good working tivo os with a decent number of features but not amazing over an ok owrking tivo os with tons of features ranging into the amazing.
November 21st, 2008 at 17:39
It isn’t an issue of crashing or not, or any neglect by TiVo, etc. The simple fact is the Series2 does not have the hardware to decode MPEG-4/H.264 or WMV/VC-1. Period. It will NEVER be able to decode them.
YouTube is using H.264, Netflix is using VC-1. The Series3 and TiVo HD have newer decodes which can handle both formats, in addition to the MPEG-2 the S2 handles. If you want streaming media you need an advanced codec like H.264 or VC-1, and that means you need the newer hardware. That’s life. I still have an old P90 Dell PC kicking around (currently unused) and I would no more expect to be able to play a Blu-ray movie on it than I would expect the S2 to stream Netflix. Sometimes you just need new hardware.
November 21st, 2008 at 19:17
Dead? That’s BS.
With regard to the mpeg issue. If Tivo can deliver Amazon video in a usable format to Series 2, then it can deliver Netflicks. Standard def is a long way from dead.
When customers want HD, they’ll pay the price to upgrade. Others (like me with 3 networked series 2’s) do not want HD at this point in time.
Finally, a company simply doesn’t walk away from products that it sold customers a year ago. Especially when doing so raises the opportunity for customers to leave for the competition.