Category Archives: NetFlix

Manage your NetFlix and Blockbuster rentals, and Download from Amazon Unbox – from your TiVo

People continue to create great applications for TiVo’s Home Media Engine interface. Now two of them have merged – the Doug Swallow’s Unbox HME application, which I posted about recently, has been combined with the Movie Rentals HME app. Now … Continue reading

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What do you get when you combine Firefox, Greasemonkey, NetFlix, and TiVo?

An easy way to record shows in your NetFlix queue. As a geek, I love things like this! Seeing technology combine and produce new systems is fantastic to me. I love it when systems come together in mash-ups like this … Continue reading

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Netflix starts offering Internet downloads

I just picked this up from Gizmodo. Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX), the world’s largest online movie rental service, today introduced a new feature that allows people to immediately watch movies and television series on their personal computers and said it … Continue reading

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TiVo sued by Lycos, along with Netflix and Blockbuster

TiVo Inc., NetFlix Inc., and Blockbuster Inc. were sued by Internet search engine Lycos Inc. over the way they provide recommendations to customers for movies or television shows. I think this is just another example of how broken our patent … Continue reading

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Three TiVo press releases

Well, I forget to check their PRs for a week and I miss three. Royal Caribbean International Signs on with TiVo to Showcase Mediterranean Cruises DIRECTV to Participate in 10,000 TiVo® Home Time Shifting Panel Netflix and TiVo Announce a … Continue reading

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