Monthly Archives: February 2005

TiVo Report Shows Super Bowl, Ads Got Huge Audience; Sexy, Funny Ads Still Drew Most Enthusiastic Vi

Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 by MegaZone

McCartney’s Tamer Halftime Show Keeps More Viewers Tuned In Compared to Last Year’s Halftime

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TiVo: Making Show Recommendations Using a Distributed Collaborative Filtering Architecture

Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 by MegaZone

We describe the TiVo television show collaborative recommendation system which has been fielded in over one million TiVo clients for four years. Over this install base, TiVo currently has approximately 100 million ratings by users over approximately 30,000 distinct TV … Continue reading →

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TiVo News, Vol. 64: Award-winning TiVo tips for OSCAR NIGHT(R)

Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 by MegaZone

TiVo newsletter

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Stream your non-FairPlay AAC files from your Mac to your TiVo!

Posted on Friday, February 18, 2005 by MegaZone

The instructions are here. Basically if you have a Mac with iTunes and TiVo Desktop 1.9, you can stream unprotected AAC files to your TiVo by converting them on the fly to MP3 using the LAME encoder. This only works … Continue reading →

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TiVo Chairman Loves His Mac

Posted on Thursday, February 17, 2005 by MegaZone

But the best part of the conversation was when we started chatting about Apple. Ramsey said a few months ago he switched – sick and tired of the problems with Windows – he went and bought a PowerBook, and now … Continue reading →

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