Archive for the 'DVR' Category

Slingbox for Mac in January?

Sunday, December 25th, 2005

Buried within the second page of this New York Times on the Web article on the Slingbox is this gem of a quote:
For now, video streamed from a Slingbox cannot be viewed on an Apple Macintosh computer, though Krikorian says his company will announce a solution to that problem in January.
It will be interesting […]

Transfer Video from PC to TiVo

Monday, August 15th, 2005

If you’re equipped with a Series 2 TiVo and software version 7.2 or later, you can now transfer videos from your PC (Windows Only) to your TiVo so that you can watch them directly on your TV. You need TiVo Desktop 2.2 and your videos must be encoded in MPEG-2. This is a […]

TiVo Serving up Ads on Fast Forward?

Monday, March 28th, 2005

While I have yet to see it myself, the TiVo Community Forums are buzzing with chatter that TiVo has begun implementing the Ads on Fast Forward program which overlays an advertisement on your television as you fast forward through commercials. These advertisements are TiVo’s latest strategy to turning a profit, something the company has […]