TiVo in the news

TUESDAY, July 22, 2008
The New York Times

TiVo and Amazon Team Up - By Brad Stone – The New York Times – 7/22/08

The company, based in Alviso, Calif., will introduce a “product purchase” feature on Tuesday in partnership with the Internet retailer Amazon.com. Owners of TiVo video recorders will see, in TiVo’s various onscreen menus, links to buy products like CDs, DVDs and books that guests are promoting on talk shows like “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “The Late Show With David Letterman” and “The Daily Show.”

FRIDAY, July 18, 2008
CNBC.com

TiVo Puts YouTube On Your Tube – By Julia Boorstin – cnbc.com - 7/18/08

No more squinting at your laptop screen or crowding around the family desktop. On Thursday, TiVo announced users can access YouTube videos, streaming them on their living room TV, rolling out over the next few weeks. It's free to all customers who have a "TiVo HD" or "Series 3" TiVo, or it has to be networked to the Internet.

TUESDAY, July 1, 2008
Associated Press

TiVo to Launch Service in Australia – Associated Press – 7/1/08

Australia's Seven Media Group and digital video recorder provider TiVo Inc. said Tuesday they will launch TiVo service in Australia this month. The TiVo service will be available across Australia and include Season Pass recordings, WishList searches and allow users to access broadband content on their televisions. Seven Media is deploying TiVo's interactive advertising technology to implement new integrated interactive advertising methods.

FRIDAY, June 27, 2008
Entertainment Weekly

The 25 Innovations That Changed Entertainment – By Simon Vozick-Levinson – Entertainment Weekly – 6/27/08 Edition

3 TiVo - 1999 - One of the first digital video recorders, it finally put an end to the days when all television junkies were held hostage to the networks' scheduling whims (or clunky VCR timers).

SUNDAY, June 15, 2008
MSNBC.com

Dads’ TV Guilty Pleasures Not What You Expect – MSNBC.com – 6/15/08

This Father’s Day you might expect to see dads watching the big game or The History Channel, but what shows are dads watching that they don’t want anyone to know about? They might not admit it, but dads love dancing celebrities, doctors who get steamy in broom closets, private school teenagers who can’t stop text messaging and “Access Hollywood.”

THURSDAY, May 29, 2008
All Things Digital

Time-Shifting the Ad Industry: Tom Rogers, President and CEO, TiVo – By John Paczkowski – Allthingsd.com – 5/29/08

Tom Rogers, a well-rounded media executive, has had his work cut out for him at TiVo (TIVO), the iconic but often-struggling pioneer and leader in the digital video-recorder market. Before coming to TiVo, Mr. Rogers was chairman and CEO of Primedia, which publishes 200 magazines, operates more than 400 Web sites and runs a wide range of television and video businesses. Previous to that, he was president of NBC Cable and executive vice president at NBC, as well as its chief strategist. While there, Mr. Rogers helped found the CNBC business cable channel and established the NBC/Microsoft cable channel and Internet joint venture, MSNBC. He also worked in politics, as senior counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Telecommunications, Consumer Protection and Finance Subcommittee, and has previously worked as a Wall Street lawyer.

WEDNESDAY, May 28, 2008
The New York Times

TiVo Service Will Deliver Selections of TV Critic – By Brian Stelter – The New York Times – 5/28/08

Television viewers have been reading the recommendations of local critics for years. Soon a subset of TiVo users will be able to automatically record a critic’s picks of The Chicago Tribune. TiVo, a leading maker of digital video recorders, is expected to announce on Wednesday a partnership with The Tribune that will deliver the recommendations of Maureen Ryan, the TV critic for The Tribune, straight to the TVs of users who sign up for the service.

WEDNESDAY, May 28, 2008
NewTeeVee.com

TiVo Adds Disney Movie Rentals – By Chris Albrecht – NewTeeVee.com – 5/28/08

TiVo announced today that its subscribers will soon be able to rent Disney movies through their DVRs directly from their TVs. The service will be provided through an arrangement with CinemaNow. Content will be offered in both standard and high definition (though not all titles will be in HD), and will be available for a 24-hour rental period. TiVo has a movie rental arrangement through Unbox, but Disney content isn’t available for download on the Amazon service.

TUESDAY, May 27, 2008
PC World

The 100 Best Products of 2008 – By Mark Sullivan – PC World – 5/27/08

After a good deal of--ahem--lively discussion, the editors at PC World have completed this year's list of the 100 best technology products available today. How did we do it? After nominating hundreds of devices, apps, sites, and services we knew to be good, we rated each one on its design, functionality, performance, and impact; the ones garnering the highest total scores made our list. Note that we chose not to rate products specifically on their price or value, focusing instead on their overall quality. After the scoring was over and the dust had cleared, we had a list that served, among other things, to remind us of what an exciting time in tech this truly is, with game-changing product development happening on many fronts. 39. TiVo HD (digital video recorder, $300; service, $13/month) With its excellent user interface and its ability to record high-def programs, the TiVo HD box might be all the DVR you need.

THURSDAY, April 17, 2008
Gizmolovers.com

TiVo Gets Social With Facebook - By MegaZone - Gizmolovers.com - 4/17/08

TiVo has just launched a new Facebook application called ‘My TV‘. You can add the shows you watch, rate and comment on the series or individual episodes, recommend shows to friends, schedule recordings on your TiVo (via links to TiVo Central Online), and more.

MONDAY, MAY 26, 2008
PC World

The 100 Best Products of 2008 - Edited by Mark Sullivan - PC World - 5/26/08

After a good deal of–ahem–lively discussion, the editors at PC World have completed this year's list of the 100 best technology products available today. How did we do it? After nominating hundreds of devices, apps, sites, and services we knew to be good, we rated each one on its design, functionality, performance, and impact; the ones garnering the highest total scores made our list. Note that we chose not to rate products specifically on their price or value, focusing instead on their overall quality. After the scoring was over and the dust had cleared, we had a list that served, among other things, to remind us of what an exciting time in tech this truly is, with game-changing product development happening on many fronts.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2008
Wall Street Journal

Tapping Your TiVo's Hidden Talents – The Mossberg Solution- By Katherine Boehret, Edited by Walter S. Mossberg – The Wall Street Journal – 3/5/08

A fondness for TiVo has encouraged users to refer to it with designated nicknames and/or genders. A teacher friend of mine was recently asked by a student if her husband's name was TiVo after the child heard her say she would have to tell TiVo about a new TV show. But like any old friend -- or spouse -- who has been around for a while, TiVo has a few tricks up its sleeve that might surprise longtime users and new owners alike. This column includes just a handful of those tricks and highlights some features that may make TiVo more useful. These tips are for everyday users, not serious hackers, and many others exist.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2008
New York Times

The Good, Bad and Ugly of Movie Downloading – By David Pogue – The New York Times – 2/21/08

Why did so many companies dump HD DVD so fast? Intriguingly, one often-cited reason is the approaching era of Internet movie downloads. The logic goes like this: as long as there’s a format war, consumers won’t buy DVD players of either type. By settling on a single format — it doesn’t really matter which one — the movie and electronics industries can at least start milking the remaining years of the DVD’s life.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2008
New York Times

For Marketing, the Most Valuable Player Might Be YouTube – By Stuart Elliott – The New York Times – 2/5/08

SOME religions believe in an afterlife. Others do not. On Madison Avenue after the Super Bowl, most everyone is a believer.That is because the Internet, digital video recorders, mobile devices and other technologies are giving a strong postgame presence to the commercials that appear each year during the Super Bowl. The spots can be watched later on Web sites, forwarded to friends through e-mail, discussed on message boards and assessed on blogs.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2008
New York Times

"Circuits" Q&A: Store on TiVo, Save on DVD – By J.D. Biersdorfer – The New York Times – 2/7/08

Q. Is there a way to record programs stored on my TiVo recorder in the living room onto a DVD so I can save them or watch them elsewhere?

A. Although some TiVo digital recorders have integrated DVD burners, you don’t have to own one of those models to get your shows copied to a disc. There are at least a couple of other options.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2008
Associated Press

Court upholds TiVo claim of patent violation – Associated Press – 2/1/08

The three-judge appeals court panel overturned the lower court's ruling that Dish infringed the hardware elements of the patent but said the violation of the software claims was sufficient to uphold the $74 million in damages the lower court awarded TiVo. WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld TiVo Inc.'s claims that Dish Network Corp. infringed one of its patents, sending TiVo's shares up 29%.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2008
HighBridNation.com

THUMBS UP for TiVo Interactive Advertising and Marketing – HighBridNation.com – 1/24/08

TiVo, a marketers dream TiVo the recognized leader and creator of DVR (Digital Video Recorders) today announced a partnership with Symantec (you know the Norton’s Anti-virus cats) to be their first interactive advertiser on their TiVoCast Programming. Learning about this got me to thinking… As a marketing professional and a TiVo subscriber I find the TiVo’s interactive marketing very intriguing. For those of you who don’t own one TiVo’s has worked hard to answer the concerns of marketers who feel that TiVo allows viewers to by-pass commercial breaks rendering their ads less effective. In response TiVo has created marketing opportunites for hungry advertisers that are really cool and cutting edge.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2008
USA Today

Boston gets Comcast's TiVo-powered DVR – By David Lieberman – USA Today – 1/22/08

NEW YORK — TiVo aims to make life easy for its digital video recorder customers. But its journey to this potentially pivotal week was extraordinarily difficult. After three years of painstaking work, Comcast, (CMCSA) the nation's largest cable provider, Tuesday will begin marketing TiVo's (TIVO) interface as a premium software upgrade for DVR customers in the Boston area. The significance of the offering reaches far beyond Beantown.

MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 2008
Los Angeles Times

Watch TiVo evolve with the industry, CEO says – By Alex Pham – Los Angeles Times – 1/21/08

The world of video is going to go the way of music. In the music world, you can get any song you want, any time you want it, on any device you want it. That's what's happened in the last five, six years. It's become a la carte, on demand. We think the same thing is going to happen with television. That changes the whole notion of television convenience and ease -- to mean being able to go out and find any piece of content you want through your television set and being able to watch it. We've built TiVo's capabilities to do that. We started with being able to retrieve certain content from newspapers and other players that had video that they want to get to the TV set. And we expanded it with Amazon, where they created thousands of television shows and movies [that can be delivered] via broadband straight to your television set.

MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2008
Associated Press

TiVo to Feature Web Video – Associated Press – 1/7/08 LAS VEGAS (AP)

TiVo Inc. said Monday its subscribers will soon be able to select video from the Web for playback on televisions through its digital video recording service, building on its strategy to extend its DVR beyond regular TV. The new feature, announced at the International Consumer Electronics Show, will let users apply "Season Pass" recording to video content available on Real Simple Syndication, or RSS, feeds. Such Web-based videos could range from network nightly newscasts to more niche videos culled from blogs or independent Internet sites, such as DiggNation or Ask A Ninja.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2007
the Gadget Hound

The Top 10 Gadgets of 2007 by Ben Patterson

TiVo HD: The best of the set-top DVRs made the leap to HD in late 2006, but the $800 price tag for the new Series3 box was a bitter pill. Luckily, the $300 TiVo HD arrived in August. In the meantime, TiVo's been busy adding support for Amazon Unbox video downloads, the Rhapsody music service, and Picasa photo libraries.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2007
The Vancouver Sun

TiVo, 'VCR on steroids,' selling 'extremely well'
By Marke Andrews

Like many marketing managers, Lee Scherbinsky can talk a blue streak about a new product. But in the case of TiVo, the television recording device, which arrived in British Columbia stores just days ago, Scherbinsky has a personal interest because he got one for himself.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2007
CNBC - Closing Bell

Interview with TiVo CEO Tom Rogers

TiVo stock up 50% this year. Hot new features. Music, Videos, Movies...

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2007
Sound & Vision Hot 100

TiVo HD DVR Makes Sound and Vision's HOT 100 List

In case you didn't hear, TiVo's gone high-def, and it's finally at a price everyone can afford. The company's HD DVR can record 20 hours of HDTV shows (180 in standard-def), even recording two HD shows at once. In addition to the cable channels, the DVR can download movies and TV episodes from Amazon Unbox. Forgot to set it to record that Happy Days reunion? Just schedule the recording via the Net.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2007
Kansas City Sar

Now you can share your videos on your own TV channel
By Stacy Downs

Have you ever wanted your own TV channel? Well, now you can have one if you have a broadband Internet connection and a few friends and family members with TiVo digital video recorders.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2007
Wall Street Journal

TiVo Serves Up Portrait of the Ad-Zappers --- Marketers Are Offered A Look at Subscribers, How They Use DVRs
By Suzanne Vranica

Facing increased competition from cable operators and phone companies that offer digital video-recording services, TiVo is making a bigger grab at a different source of revenue: the pile of money that marketers are throwing at companies that promise fresh insights into TV-viewing habits.