TiVo in the News

A new partnership with PayPal will give TiVo users the ability to explore interactive ads and buy products directly through the interface using their PayPal account. Read more

TiVo on Monday announced a pair of secondary set-top boxes for its Premiere DVRs, including TiVo Stream, which will transcode recorded content for use on mobile devices. Read more

Over the past year, we've talked a lot about cutting the cord to paid TV programming. That's probably one bill that wouldn't be missed. The entertainment, on the other hand, is something else entirely. Read more

The new Premiere Elite is the BMW of DVRs. No one said life is fair. More than 40% of viewers in the U.S. have DVR service to stockpile TV shows for watching later, butTiVo, the company that invented the digital video recorder market, has lost out to knockoffs and is running now at half its 2006 peak of more than four million subscribers. Read more

A global partnership has been announced between advanced television services provider TiVo and the set-top developer Pace. Pace has licensed TiVo’s Hardware Porting Kit and will work with TiVo to build a TiVo-verified platform which will provide operators licensing the TiVo solution the choice of utilizing Pace set-top boxes and gateways. Read more

DirecTV and TiVo said Thursday that a DirecTV-branded TiVo is now available nationwide, four years after the original partnership agreement was struck. In December, the two companies deployed the TiVo HD DVR from DirecTV, as it's called, in ten markets as a trial. Markets included New York, Denver, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, among others. Read more

TiVo has declared Dorito’s “Man’s Best Friend” Super Bowl ad the most engaging commercial in Sunday night’s big game, televised on NBC. Like five of TiVo’s other top-10 engaging ads in the Super Bowl, the Doritos spot appeared in the second quarter. The ad, one of two consumer-generated Dorito's spots, featured a dog who bribed a man with Doritos to conceal the whereabouts of the family cat. Read more

TiVo has just launched a new Android version of its DVR-controlling app. The TiVo App for Android joins the TiVo App for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch in letting users manage their TiVo devices from their mobile devices. Read more

TiVo Inc. (TIVO) rose as much as 22 percent in extended trading after AT&T Inc. agreed to pay at least $215 million to settle a patent lawsuit over digital video recorders. The settlement includes $51 million up front, followed by quarterly payments through June 2018 totaling $164 million, Alviso, California-based TiVo said in a statement today. Dallas- based AT&T also agreed to monthly license fees if its DVR subscribers exceed certain levels in that period, TiVo said. Read more

Spanish cable operator Ono and digital video recorder services provider TiVo have launched their next generation hybrid television service in Spain. Read more

Grande Communications has announced that launch of TiVo Premiere, a new service that blends television service with Internet video and music. Read more

The new "whole home solution" from TiVo consisting of the four tuner Premiere Q DVR and Preview extender is finally available for the first time, from RCN. Read more

The TiVo Premiere Elite is the TV watcher’s Bugatti Veyron. It’s their Lance Armstrong, their Empire Strikes Back. It’s the Budweiser of set-top box DVRs. The TiVo Premiere Elite is simply the best recording and playback device ever made and yes, I just called Budweiser the best beer of all time. The quad turner device quietly leaked over the summer, followed by an official TiVo announcement in September. At that time the company failed to announce the price and availability but the product page later reveled the $499 price. TiVo just took to the wires to announce the Premiere Elite is available starting today. Your king has arrived, TV nerds. Read more

TiVo, Netflix and Hulu have buddied up with social-media powerhouse Facebook to make it even easier for people to flaunt their TV and movie watching habits. The companies made the announcements at Facebook's f8 developers conference Thursday, where the social website touted a new real-time linking feature aimed at letting people share media. Read more

TiVo has just completed a rather extensive fall TV survey, and the end results do help us get some sort idea of just what are going to be the most-popular shows of the upcoming season -- at least if they end up meeting some of the hype. Read more

Set your eyeballs to stun: TiVo just announced its latest digital video recorder, the TiVo Premiere Elite. However, this isn't your ordinary set-top box. This one packs in a few eye-popping features. First up, the Premiere Elite has a whopping four digital tuners, which means you can actually record four shows at once, all while viewing a fifth recorded program. Read more

We've made no attempts to hide our contempt for sloppy, inconsiderate "connected" TVs. So far, they've been thrown together with all the effort of a fad. But Best Buy's in-house brand has a trick up its sleeve: TiVo. Read more

Overall, the TiVo Premiere made for a great DVR experience and with the added online features, it can easily become the center of your entertainment world. Read more

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower court's ruling that Dish Network must disable eight models of its DVRs -- found to have infringed on a key patent owned by TiVo -- and must pay sanctions for violating prior injunctions to disable the equipment, as the parties' seven-year legal fight appears to be nearing an end. Read more

As more and more customers get the next-generation set top box, Virgin Media will begin the push for the new equipment, which has already wowed critics with its feature set, including a backwards EPG, searchable content and, crucially, the famous TiVo suggestion functionality. Read more

TiVo Inc., the digital-video recording pioneer, is in talks with several cable operators about its set-top boxes, Chief Executive Officer Tom Rogers said in an interview Read more

TiVo still does boxes better than anyone else. This is a company that knows something about a great customer experience. And while cable operators can try and try again to put out set tops that keep up with consumer demands for features and “sleekness,” it can seem like a losing battle because of the sunk costs of those old, existing boxes and the need to tailor navigation software to the lowest common denominator. That’s why the deal announced Mon between TiVo and Charter Comm is so significant. Charter is the 3rd cable operator to embrace TiVo as its “default” DVR box provider Read more

While Tivo is keeping its focus on the TV screen, it has an eye on tablets as well; an iPad app will launch in the next few months. But the operator deals are where Tivo stands to turn around its business; a new deal with Virgin Media joins a roster that already includes Cox Communications, RCN and Suddenlink. Read more

We've made no attempts to hide our contempt for sloppy, inconsiderate "connected" TVs. So far, they've been thrown together with all the effort of a fad. But Best Buy's in-house brand has a trick up its sleeve: TiVo. Read more

Virgin Media has signed an exclusive UK deal with U.S. digital video-recorder maker TiVo, a move it said on Wednesday marked the start of its transition from a cable operator to an entertainment provider. Read more

TiVo announced on Monday that they have slashed prices on their TiVo Premiere and Premiere XL DVRs for a limited time. You can now pick up the TiVo Premiere box for $99.99 with a one-year commitment of $19.99 per month – saving you $200 on the box. Read more

TiVo has launched an Online Season Pass Manager, which will allow subscribers to transfer season pass subscriptions between their various TiVo boxes, as well as adding new passes and deleting old ones. Read more

Looking to merged virtually all traditional and new digital TV shows -- new and old -- into one service and device, TiVo got broadened its offerings. The longtime maker of time-shifting TV show equipment has struck a deal with Hulu Plus to be included in TiVo's new DVR machines. Read more

TiVo announces today that the company's TiVo Premiere DVR will also get personalized streaming radio services via Pandora, which has been available as an app for a variety of smartphone platforms. The Pandora app for TiVo Premiere boxes will allow users to stream Internet-based radio channels that are created based on their preferences for music. Read more

Anyone who's tried to type on a TiVo—searching for YouTube, or viewing Netflix, or trying to find that show you want to record—knows it's both tedious and rage-inducing. TiVo Slide fixes this problem, plus, it's a better remote entirely. Read more

RCN has launched TiVo Premiere in Chicago ahead of schedule -- beating incumbent cable operator Comcast to the punch in the Windy City. RCN now offers TiVo Premiere in all its markets. The operator debuted the DVR in Washington, D.C., in May followed by New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Lehigh Valley, Pa., and now Chicago. TiVo Premiere (code-named "Neutron") features an interface optimized for big-screen HDTVs and integrated search across linear, on-demand, recorded shows and broadband content.
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Suddenlink Communications CEO Jerry Kent said one of the key reasons the MSO selected TiVo DVRs and set-tops for its next-generation video services was to let customers access broadband-delivered content — including YouTube clips — right on their TVs Read more

Television recording business TiVo Inc. set up a way for its users to show information like news, weather, photos or updates from social networks like Twitter or Facebook on TV. Read more

TiVo is showing us the future of television with the way they've aggregated all this downloadable content Read more

How can it be that pretty much everyone agrees TiVo DVRs are significantly better (are easier to use, offer more innovative features, give you more spacious hard drives, and even now integrate with things like HP MediaSmart Servers for expansion), yet STILL opt for the craptastic box from the cable company? Read more

Mr. TiVo TiVo's shares soared more than 53% after the company announced it had won a key ruling in federal court in a long-running patent infringement case against EchoStar's Dish Network. Read more

TiVo on Tuesday officially announced two new DVRs that offer an updated user interface and enhanced integration and search capabilities for online video. The TiVo Premiere and TiVo Premiere XL models will cost $300 and $500, respectively, when they ship in April. Read more

TiVo Inc. is taking its partnership act to the U.K. in a big way, notching a deal to develop a next-generation TV platform for Virgin Media Inc. that will include broadband-fed video services and applications. Read more

Pro sports are far less prone to time-shifting than other types of programming. Only 20% of first-run football viewing is done on a time-shifted basis, according to TiVo StopWatch data. That's half of the 40% rate for all viewing, and only a third of the 61% afflicting primetime. Read more

We knew good and well it was coming, and now the deed has been done. As promised, Blockbuster's On Demand movie rental service has gone live on a bevy of TiVo boxes, enabling Series2, Series3, TiVo HD and TiVo HD XL DVRs to watch all sorts of releases without needing to purchase another set-top-box or tap into their cable company's VOD system. Read more

TiVo's iconic brand is built around the company's much lauded search-and-suggestion interface. Connected to broadband, DVRs can deliver dozens of branded channels like TiVoCast and can access users' digital video and photo libraries. TiVo is also a content retailer for downloadable video. Read more

Besides changing the way people watch television, TiVo has also begun to change how we measure that behavior with TiVo "StopWatch." StopWatch connects second-by-second viewing behavior with commercial and promo occurrence data, offering Program Ratings, Spot Ratings and Commercial Retention for both Live Viewing and Time-Shifted Viewing.

In other words, for the first time we're able to see if promos actually perform. Do viewers stick or click? Read more

Mining audience data from STB devices that deliver TV content via cable or satellite is turning into the digital equivalent of the Alaska gold rush. A growing number of research and technology companies -- including Nielsen (which owns AdweekMedia), TNS Media Research, TiVo, Rentrak and TRA -- envision a promising business that can deliver audience viewing data of unparalleled precision based on millions of households. Read more

TiVo is the closest to providing the kind of content consumers really want. It has Netflix, it will soon have Blockbuster streaming, it allows you to watch video podcasts, you can watch films you download from Amazon.com, and you can stream music from Rhapsody. Even better, it's a DVR, so you can quickly and easily switch to television and start recording your favorite shows. Read more

The future of TV. While some companies are doing crazy things like mounting a Blu-ray player in an HDTV to help gain some traction in the US market, other companies like TiVo are going a bit beyond. This week the company added RSS feed capability. This will allow podcasts and the like to be streamed to the TiVo. Hot. Read more

Best Buy and TiVo have worked out a nice deal. Best Buy is going to heavily push the DVR in all its stores nationwide and TiVo will produce a special Best Buy DVR and embed its DVR platform in a few HDTVs. Read more

The TiVo model helps to understand how Web 3.0 might work. Express interest in, say, George Clooney, and TiVo's "agent" searches for and records any of his movies airing on TV. But it also finds and records content related to Clooney, such as films he directed or produced, reruns of ER, The Facts of Life and other credited work, interviews and gossip items about him, even the "Tears of a Clooney" episode of American Dad that mocked his persona. Now substitute your brand for "Clooney" and "the entire Web" for "TV," and you get some idea of Web 3.0's potential reach. Read more

TiVo (TIVO) shares are up sharply after hours after a federal court in Texas upheld the company's patents in its closely watched infringement case against EchoStar (SATS). The Judge ruled that EchoStar and DISH Network (DISH) are in contempt of court, rejected their workaround of TiVo's patent Read more

Our lives changed dramatically in 2000. A new addition to our family made cute sounds and radically altered our schedules. We were exposed to new ideas and invited to reflect on some old ones. People came into our home to ooh and ahh, asking to hold it and press its buttons. The more it learned about us, the stronger our relationship became. This is the year our love affair with TiVo began. Read more

TiVo Inc. on Tuesday announced the availability of high definition movies and television shows for download to users' television sets via Amazon.com. High definition episodes of current TV seasons will be available for purchase at $2.99 and new release HD movies will be available for rental from $3.99 to $4.99. Read more

The company that's made it so easy for television viewers to avoid watching ads will unveil Monday a plan to help stations sell them. TiVo will challenge Nielsen, whose audience ratings provide the basis for most ad sales, with Stop/Watch Local Markets. It will supplement TiVo's measurements of national TV audiences with data from all but the smallest of the nation's 210 markets. Read more

TiVo considers its DVR a shopping mall with video and music downloads available from Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, Rhapsody and other stores of entertainment. But it was missing Blockbuster, which it views as a key anchor for its biggest library of new releases available for download. Blockbuster OnDemand will be added to TiVo's subscription service beginning as early as July, the two companies said Wednesday. Read more

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The redesigned TiVo Search does away with the Swivel Search and now makes show searching more efficient and HD friendly. Just like Swivel Search TiVo Search will weed through both live TV and broadband content, like Amazon on Demand and YouTube, to find a complete list of available programs. But now upon searching for a show TiVo Search will automatically generate similar recommendations and display them with eye-pleasing art at the top of your TV. Another upgrade over the Swivel is the menu layout that is now three columns wide to make use of wide screen TVs and when available HD content is automatically recommended. Read more

Today, January 7, 2009, TiVo announced its upgraded TiVo Search that should allow for users to still get search results, but also discover content. Content suggestions are pulled from television listings and also from the Internet. You might find a clip from YouTube that is related to a television show that you watch. With thousands of programs on television, it's hard finding new things to watch. A "discovery engine" is a great idea to find fresh shows. Read more

TiVo was nice enough to hit us with the Netflix-enabling Fall Service Update a little early, and the going's been pretty good -- this is probably our favorite Netflix streaming implementation yet. Although it's not as flashy of an experience as the Xbox 360's Netflix implementation, it's faster to start streaming, and to our eyes it looks a lot better -- the 360's output is really dark, while the TiVo looks bright and crisp. On top of that, we've never been able to get our 360 to hit more than two bars when playing HD-capable content, while the TiVo instantly spooled up and started streaming full-quality 720p video. Read more

TiVo is really making a push to have a good holiday season—first by offering better deals at Best Buy and now they have made a mobile website allowing cell phone users to browse TV shows and even schedule recordings. Read more

You can now order a pizza through your television. In a new promotion with TiVo Inc., Domino's Pizza Inc. will begin taking orders using only a TV set from customers who have broadband TiVo service. When a customer forwards through a commercial for Domino's, TiVo will flash a pop-up advertisement that asks the customer if she would like to order a pizza, then direct her to a Domino's ordering screen. Read more

True story: One of our readers told me he has more than two dozen networked TiVos in his house; obviously he doesn't like to delete any of his recorded shows. This guy should definitely look into the TiVo HD XL, the latest DVR from the company that made TV time-shifting all the rage. The XL is the spiritual successor to 2006's TiVo Series3 DVR. And the XL simply stands for lots of hard drive space--1TB to be exact, as opposed to the standard 160GB that the $300 TiVo HD offers. That extra space translates into about 150 hours of HD recording (up from 20 hours for the TiVo HD) and more than 1,360 hours of basic quality SD recording. Read more

TiVo. I bit the bullet and bought the Tivo Series 3, the hi-def masterpiece machine (which has, grrr, already been discontinued). Runs like a Swiss watch, has never let us down. Still the best DVR software and features on the planet. Subscribes to my favorite Web videos. When I'm away, I can program it from across the Internet. Read more

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". Read more

Pick up the remote, turn on the television — and watch YouTube. The user experience envisioned by technology enthusiasts came a step closer to reality on Wednesday when TiVo, the maker of popular digital video recorders, announced a partnership with YouTube that will deliver Web video directly to users’ televisions. Read more

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). Read more

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". Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

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. Read more

Another reason to go with a TiVo instead of a generic DVR: downloadable Disney and indie movies on demand. The deals were actually announced earlier in the year, but starting today you'll be able to download and rent movies from Jaman.com. Read more