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TIVO has completely revolutionized the way we watch television today. With its long list of viewing features, you can watch television on your terms. Use TIVO to automatically find and record the entertainment you want to watch, and to find related programming you might like to see. Only TIVO gives you the freedom to watch your favorite shows any time, anywhere.   Pause Live TVAre you ever interrupted during the best part of your show by a ringing phone or a crying baby? Now you can pause live television and never miss a minute of your favorite show WishList SearchesUse this feature like a search engine to find and record your favorite movie by title, actor, director, or keyword Season Pass RecordingsNever miss an episode of your favorite television show. This feature automatically records every episode of your favorite show TIVO Online SchedulingAccess your TIVO service from any internet connection and tell it what you want to record 
  HUMAX DRT400/DRT800HUMAX DRT2500TIVO R54014,R54040,R54080TOSHIBA RSTX20/RSTX60 TIVO Box - Price ranges depending on recording capacityTIVO Service - $12.95/month or one-time product lifetime fee of $299 Do I need a telephone connection?Yes. A TIVO box works by automatically making a brief connection to the TIVO service to download the information it needs to find the entertainment you care most about. This connection is automatic and lasts just a few minutes. If you are using a phone connection, local and long-distance toll charges may apply in some areas. Will TIVO tie up my phone line?No. The daily call takes place when you are not using the phone line. Your phone will always be available for personal use, regardless of time. TIVO will not interrupt an existing call nor will it interfere with call waiting, incoming, or outgoing calls. Will TIVO work with my setup?A TIVO box works with cable, satellite, even roof-top antenna. It can also be used in a setup that includes VCRs and DVD players. Does TIVO allow me to fast forward through commercials?
The TIVO remote control has three-speeds of fast forward and rewind that enable you to easily skim through any part of a recorded program at 3x, 18x, or 60x normal speeds, including commercials.Why do I pay for the TIVO service?Think of the TIVO service as the brain behind easy-to-use TIVO features like WishList searches and Season Pass recordings. It is always working for you, even when you are not home, to automatically find and record the entertainment you want to watch, and to find you related programming you might like to see. What is Multi-Service discount?Multi-Service Discount is a new TIVO service policy that discounts the monthly TIVO service fee from $12.95 to $6.95 for those with more than one eligible TIVO box on the same account. Can I buy a TIVO box in Canada?No. TIVO DVRs are not currently available in Canada. At this time, TIVO DVRs are only available in the United States and in the United Kingdom.  Activate or Upgrade TIVO ServiceTIVO Community ForumTIVOHelp.com DTTDigital Terrestrial Television is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound through a conventional aerial instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. DVRDigital Video Recorder, also called Personal Video Recorder (PVR), is a consumer electronics device that records television shows to a hard disk in digital format. Time ShiftingTime shifting is the recording of television shows to some storage medium to be viewed at a time convenient to the consumer.  As regular readers know, the PVR Wire blog is retiring as of today. The retirement of a blog is sometimes necessary for a constellation of reasons. We at Weblogs, Inc. have honed our network over the past eight months or so in an effort to produce the best overall experience for readers. Doing so requires figuring out how to divide resources that, sadly, are not infinite. But retiring a blog is never about the bloggers, and our hope is always to keep our writers with us in some capacity. In this case, PVR Wire matches up well with TV Squad, our destination for all sorts of television news and opinion, so the PVR Wire team is heading over there to continue its passionate survey of the PVR industry, its devices, and the joys of personal TV recording. Look for your favorite PVR Wire writers here. You can grab the URL for bookmarking, and a dedicated RSS feed for your reader, as follows: Bookmark: http://www.tvsquad.com/category/pvr-wire/ RSS feed: http://www.tvsquad.com/category/pvr-wire/rss.xml Thanks for reading, and thanks to our bloggers (Martin, Brad, Chris, JJ, and Matt) for their amazing work!Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Author: Brad Hill Posted: 1 Feb 2007 at 1:00pm Filed under: Tips, Beyond TV One of the biggest inconveniences involved with upgrading to Windows Vista is all of the potential software and hardware incompatibilities that may pop up once you are ready to go. As with software drivers, there will also be programs that simply just won't work. Over at the Snapstream blog there is a piece which brings to light the specific state that Beyond TV is in with regards to Windows Vista. The current version of Beyond TV (4.5) is not fully compatible with Vista, but if you hold on, version 4.6 is scheduled to ship "very soon now". This new version will contain a wide variety of bug fixes which will make it fully compatible with Windows Vista. So if you are a Beyond TV user who is thinking about switching to Vista, make sure you wait for this upgrade to save yourself some hassle. It's good to know that something is in the works. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | CommentsAuthor: Matt Crape Posted: 31 Jan 2007 at 6:35pm Filed under: News, Dish Network, TiVo, Lawsuit You may be aware that TiVo sued Echostar over infringing patents relating to the technology behind its PVRs. TiVo won and the court ruled that TiVo would get $88 million in damages and also Echostar would have to stop selling and using infringing PVRs. Bit it wasn't over and Echostar appealed and was awarded some breathing space for the time being and then later requested more time to get certain documents together. The case has now got progressively more complex but I've tried to make sense of it the best I can. The U.S. District Court Judge Duffey is now getting very frustrated with Echostar for not getting these documents in on time. It's rare for a court to give a company an extended time for appeal and Echostar is really dragging its heals in the mud and as a result is rubbing the courts up the wrong way. Judge Duffey has now ordered that Echostar must now get the documents together by February 15th. If all this legal mumbo jumbo is leaving your head hurting let me just conclude that the outlook still looks good for TiVo and Echostar is in for a tough ride.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Author: Chris Tew Posted: 31 Jan 2007 at 4:21pm Filed under: General, News Whenever you think of a DVR you automatically think of a grey box sitting in your front room hooked up to your TV. But digital video recorders are aren't just restricted to the living room, for example those sturdy surveillance DVRs. But according to All DVR News Fast Forward Video Inc, a company that specializes in DVR technology for broadcast, industrial video, presentation, and military applications, has announced its Outrider CF DVR. This DVR fits into the helmet of a SuperCross racer and is used for used for on-body recording while fitted with a camera, and has been worn by Ryan Clark.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Author: Chris Tew Posted: 31 Jan 2007 at 2:30pm Filed under: Hacks, News, TiVo, DIY, TiVo Series 3 Engadget has discovered that the TiVo Series 3 has had the PROM chip hacked. If you're like me your probably thinking "what the hell is a PROM chip?" Well PROM stands for Programmable Read Only Memory and the PROM chip is placed on the motherboard inside your TiVo and contains some pre-loaded basic intelligence. It is this intelligence that contains security to prevent your TiVo from being modified with third party software and hacks. This PROM hack can be done in the following not-so-simple steps: De-solder the PROM chip from the TiVo motherboard If you haven't fried the chip continue... Extract the code from the Chip Edit the Hex Burn a new PROM Re-solder the new chip back to the motherboard Hope you haven't fried the chip As you can see this is not exactly the easiest hack to do and it is only the first step. The next stage is developing individual hacks to alter the functionality of the TiVo, such as enabling TiVo2Go. If you're technically minded enough and want to learn more then head over to the DealDatabase forums for more info. [Via TiVo Lovers]Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Author: Chris Tew Posted: 31 Jan 2007 at 1:18pm Filed under: General, News, TiVo, DIY, Home Networking Now this is cool! Control electronic devices in your house from the comfort of your couch using a TiVo remote control. That means you can now annoy other family members by turning off their lights from the comfort of your couch! You may of heard of HomeSeer for Windows Media Center Edition which allowed you to control your house using a Media Center PC. Well the same thing has now arrived on TiVo making use of TiVo's HME development platform. Once you have Homeseer installed there seems to be no limit on what devices can be controlled. If its got a button, a setting, a switch or anything like that then its likely that you could control it from your TiVo. [Via TiVo Lovers]Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Author: Chris Tew Posted: 31 Jan 2007 at 12:18pm Filed under: Advertising, News, TiVo We already knew that TiVo was getting into the ratings business when it sold statistical data to Omnicom Media Group, and recently teamed up with IRI to offer even more advanced statistics on its customers viewing habits. TiVo is now launching a service called StopWatch which offers data on the programming and viewing habits of TiVo customers, including that all important time shifted data. The time shifted data is what advertisers and TV networks are really concerned with at the moment. TiVo has won one over on its leading ratings competitor Nielsen by offering second-by-second viewing data which Nielsen has refused to offer so far. The advertising company Starcom is the first subscriber to TiVo's valuable data.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Author: Chris Tew Posted: 31 Jan 2007 at 11:17am Filed under: News, Software, Microsoft, Media Center Edition, DIY Yesterday I mentioned Microsoft's propriety video format MS-DVR which is used for Windows Media Center recordings. Previously you would need to convert the videos to a more standard format using something like DVRBox so you could edit them with ease. However Vista Movie Maker now comes with full support of MS-DVR files so editing out those adverts is now pretty easy. And if you get stuck you can always ask for help in the Windows Movie Maker forums.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Author: Chris Tew Posted: 31 Jan 2007 at 10:17am Filed under: General, HDTV, News, Media Center Edition, Reviews Check out the Vista-ready OMS-GX300 Media Center from Okoro Media Systems. This beast of a media center will set you back $4,995 but includes some mouth watering specs: A silver and sleek SilverStone LC18 case which comes with a little 7" Touch Screen display featuring a 15:9 wide display with HDTV transcoder for 720p Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 quad-core processor 2GB of Crucial's Ballistix memory Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX graphics card 1TB of hard drive space (2x 500GB) - can be upgraded to 2TB. 16x Dual-Layer +-RW DVD Writer Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX PCIE 768MB HDTV & HDCP Saber 2020 TV Tuners with hardware MPEG-2 encoder. PCI Over-The-Air HDTV Tuner Optional USB HDTV Tuner Microsoft Media Center Remote Control w/ IR Blaster Snapstream Firefly Remote Control You may be thinking this is a little over the top for a Media Center PC unless you want to do gaming. But as CrunchGear points out, a great feature of Vista is that it works seamlessly with the Xbox 360 controller making living room gaming from the couch much more appealing. Full OMS-GX300 specs and features here.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Author: Chris Tew Posted: 31 Jan 2007 at 9:16am Filed under: General, HDTV, News, Reviews, Home Networking, Streaming The new TiVX 5010-P HD TV recorder is one unique and sleek PVR from DViCO. To start off this futuristic grey cylinder does not contain an internal hard drive but requires you to add your own external one via a USB port. I actually quite like the option of being able to add my own external hard drives as it makes for easy upgrades. But wait there's more; this HD TV recorder is more than just a weird looking PVR, it's also a media extender. It can record videos in 1920 x 1080 resolution and stream files to and from a PC in a variety of video formats including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, (VOB, ISO and IFO), AVI, TP, WMV9. It can also send pictures and movies around the house too. Other features include: An Electronic Program Guide to use on your TV ATSC hi-def television tuner DVI, component, S-Video and composite video outs 2x USB 2.0 ports for adding external disk drives A third USB port for other storage devices (e.g digital camera, MP3 player) fixed 10/100Mbps Ethernet or 802.11b/g WiFi It is currently being launched in Korea and will cost $352. There is no word on releases in other territories, but hopefully there will be.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Author: Chris Tew Posted: 31 Jan 2007 at 8:08am Filed under: News, Software, Microsoft, Media Center Edition The Vista launch has come upon on us and so it's a busy time for a lot of PC related companies. One of which is Hauppauge which has announced that it has the widest range of Vista ready PC tuner cards available. Hauppauge will now be offering the new Vista driver software with every Hauppauge product shipped from today. Existing customers can upgrade from the Hauppauge website. If you are keen to read more about the Windows Vista launch then check out Engadget.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Author: Chris Tew Posted: 31 Jan 2007 at 7:07am Filed under: HDTV, News, Microsoft, Media Center Edition, Mobile OQO, a company that specializes in ultra-mobile personal computing, announced the Model 02 at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. The Model 02 is an extremely powerful portable mini PC that has the ability to run Windows Vista Ultimate. Kevin Groppe of FloppyHead pointed out that if it can run Windows Vista Ultimate (which comes with MCE) it must therefore be a mini Media Center PC. Further more the Model 02 comes with USB support so could get hooked up with a USB Digital Tuner turning the Model 02 into a portable mini PVR. Also the Model 02 has a HDMI output so could be hooked up to any HD TV. Whether this little PC could stand up to the heavy requirements of PVR recording and playing HD content is yet to be seen. But it would damn cool if it could! [Via Digg]Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Author: Chris Tew Posted: 30 Jan 2007 at 4:57pm Filed under: General Anyone who reads this site most likely understands and appreciates the many features of a PVR: pausing, commercial skipping, program guide, etc. Well a fella in Salt Lake City has found a new, and somewhat ingenious use for his PVR. Matthew T. Jarman hopes to be able to build a system that actually censors the language in programs that you are watching through the use of the closed captioning text. When it finds a word that you 'blacklist', the PVR will mute the audio for the duration of the word. Other uses for the PVR will include the ability to lock out programs or channels depending on any number of things like title, rating, station, etc. As pointed out in his patent papers, this would be more versatile than the current V-Chip (does any one actually use theirs?) since you will be able to use your own discretion when it comes to blocking different shows with the same ratings. Although I know I would have no intention of buying one of these, it could potentially be great for public places that have TVs (e.g. waiting rooms, store fronts, etc). Found Via.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Author: Matt Crape Posted: 30 Jan 2007 at 1:42pm Filed under: News, Software, Microsoft, Media Center Edition, DIY DVR-MS is a proprietary Microsoft format that is used in Media Center Edition to record videos. Unfortunately this format can't be played on may other devices so you may want to be able to easily convert your DVR-MS video recordings to some other format.. DVRBox is free open source software that does just that converting your DVR-MS video files into other formats including Xvid and MPEG 4. Features include: Editing of DVR-MS videos Batch processing Automatic crop detection Scheduled compression Outputs to MPEG-4 including XviD, x264 In development is manual cropping, directory scanning, profilesand iPod Support.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Author: Chris Tew Posted: 30 Jan 2007 at 1:41pm Filed under: General, News, Software, SageTV SageTV, the popular provider of PC PVR software, has announced support for AMD LIVE! Home Cinema And Home Media Server. An AMD LIVE! PC is much like a Windows Media Center PC offering a complete solution for video, music and photo access through an easy to use interface. With SageTV an AMD LIVE! Home Cinema will also provide the popular complete PVR functionality from SageTV too. Click here to learn more about AMD Live!Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Author: Chris Tew Posted: 30 Jan 2007 at 11:57am Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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