Category Archives: PC

Vote for a cheaper TiVo HD! Amongst other things…

Posted on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 by MegaZone

Amazon is running their ‘Amazon Customers Vote’ specials again this year. Just hit the link and you can vote in six rounds for the product you’d like to see reduced in price as a holiday special.   Item 1 Item … Continue reading →

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Intel does a 180 on OpenCable – and more OCAP news

Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 by MegaZone

As recently as November, 2006 Intel was opposed to the licensing terms for OCAP (the OpenCable Application Platform) and they opposed requiring consumer electronics (CE) vendors to support OCAP in general for two-way cable services. Well, things change, and apparently … Continue reading →

Posted in Blu-ray/HD DVD, Digeo Moxi, Motorola, OCAP, PC, Scientific Atlanta, TiVo | Leave a comment

TiVo Desktop 2.4 for Windows released

Posted on Monday, April 30, 2007 by MegaZone

Dave Zatz seems to be the first to have noticed that, sometime in the past few days (the Release Notes are dated April 25, 2007), TiVo quietly bumped Desktop 2.4 from Preview to Release, with 2.4 replacing 2.3a on the … Continue reading →

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TiVo2DVD for UNIX/Linux users

Posted on Sunday, March 11, 2007 by MegaZone

My friend usagijer tipped me off to a new item on SourceForge: TiVo2DVD. Tivo2dvd creates and executes the series of commands required to access, format, and burn television shows from a Series II Tivo directly to a DVD. It supports … Continue reading →

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TiVo Desktop 2.4 for Windows Preview Release

Posted on Thursday, February 22, 2007 by MegaZone

A preview release of the coming TiVo Desktop 2.4 for Windows is now available for download. If you have a Series3, this includes the promised HD Photo viewer. Photos are now converted to 1280×720 for the S3, instead of being … Continue reading →

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