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• TiVo’s Future is in Videoblogs Not in Network Television We’ve been a TiVo household for about a month now. Excellent service, I’m glad we got it. What we don’t have is a satellite or cable service. As I mentioned on my other blog, this omission is very challenging for TiVo. To me, the most interesting television isn’t on television. It’s the videoblogs or video podcasts
• Tivo HD vs Apple iTV Jen and I talked about Baby Tivo recently. It’s a paltry 40gig, single-tuner. But, sans-cable, it serves us well. Today, Apple announced their iTV, shipping sometime next year. Priced at $300, plays HD video, HDMI ports, wifi, Front Row (or something like it), everything you’d expect (maybe a DVD drive?). Then later today, I received an
• Videos Tab in TiVo Desktop - Video Blogs Now Playing - Nearly. There’s an Easter Egg in the version 1.9.3 of the TiVo Desktop software for Mac. Flipping the right switch in the Preference Pane’s preference shows a new ‘Videos’ tab. Restarting the server and scrolling to the bottom of ‘Now Playing’ shows my MacBook. I’m very pleased they put my videos in ‘Now Playing’ (even at the bottom),
• Putting the Digital Video ‘in’ Digital Video Recorder Back in December 2005 I wrote: “Now, despite the TiVo being a Linux box and hooked up to my network - I can’t easily send video to it. To be clear - I don’t want to get video off it - I want to put video on it. Easily. As easily as setting up a Season
• TiVo Being Funny I’ve mentioned before how desperate our TiVo is to recommend its paltry selection of over the air broadcast to us. The other day, I saw Jen delete a bunch of Hogan’s Heros from TiVo’s recommendations. Uh. I kinda wanted to….oh, forget it. Then tonight, going through the Now Playing, 3 of the Scrubs recordings were in