Daily Archives: Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Roxio Launches Toast 10 Titanium, Adds Transfers To TiVo

Roxio Monday launched Toast 10 Titanium for Mac OS. This new update to Toast adds a number of features, but most significantly for Mac OS users it includes an implementation of ‘TiVoToComeBack’, video transfers to a TiVo, which they’re calling … Continue reading

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DivX Releases DivX 7, Closes The Circle

DivX has come full circle, what started out as a reverse engineered version of Microsoft’s non-compliant implementation of MPEG-4 Version 3 over ten years ago with DivX 3.11 is now a full-featured product based on H.264 (aka MPEG-3 AVC) with … Continue reading

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Broadcom Brings Adobe Flash To TVs And STBs

Broadcom has partnered with Adobe to embed Adobe Flash Lite 3 into several of their latest System-on-a-chip (SoC) platforms for TVs and STBs. This will allow vendors who use Broadcom’s chips to easily add Flash support to their products. Along … Continue reading

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The Huffington Post On “The TiVo Imperative”

The Huffington Post is running a column by Jack Myers entitled The TiVo Imperative: Educate and Entice Viewers to “Want to Watch” Commercials and New TV Series. It is about the erosion of ad viewing as DVR use increases, and … Continue reading

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Amazon Buy Two, Get One Free Blu-ray Sale

Amazon is running a huge Blu-ray sale – Buy Two, Get One Free with 247 titles to select from! That’s one of their largest sales in a while, so if you we lucky enough to get a Blu-ray player for … Continue reading

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