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Wow! Some good news for my TiVo stock. I’m not entirely sure it’s really great news for TiVo. Despite 2/3rds of their subscribers coming via DirecTV, only 10% of their revenues do, and I expect that Comcast negotiated similar if not better terms for their deal. At least is sounds like [...]

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005. Posted in TV, TiVO | No Comments »>

Wonder if I was #3 million

We received our free TiVo yesterday and I set it up last night. I wonder if I was subscriber number 3 million.

Friday, February 18th, 2005. Posted in TV, TiVO | No Comments »>

TiVo’s Super Bowl stats

PVRBlog points to TiVo’s Super Bowl stats. Very cool visual representation. I was amongst those a little behind live — since we paused the game for dinner.

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005. Posted in TV, TiVO | No Comments »>

Who will buy Tivo for scrap?

Speculation on a TiVo buyout. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to see a buyout in the near future, with the stock dipping as low as it is. It’s a valuable brand in a growing space. TiVo been coming out with a lot of great new things for the geeks, like the [...]

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005. Posted in TV, TiVO | No Comments »>

The second TiVo is on the way

Thanks to the TiVo Rewards program a new 140 hour TiVo is now on the way to us. It’s our second and will be hooked up in the bedroom. With multi-room viewing, we can now TiVo something different than we are watching, or TiVo two things at once — which is our current [...]

Monday, January 24th, 2005. Posted in TV, Technology, TiVO | 1 Comment »>

New concepts in architecture

I’m sitting here watching This Old House, and their insert segment is about a team of Yale architecture students that design and build a house for a low income family. Every single one of the students, graduate level architecture students, has zero building experience. They are saying things like “I’ve never even driven [...]

Saturday, November 20th, 2004. Posted in TV | 4 Comments »>

TiVo Ads

TiVo’s new advertising strategy seems to be upsetting some people.
Must admit, it doesn’t bother me. Maybe I’m substantially googlized to the point that I think it’s pretty normal to find advertising banners everywhere I look, don’t know. Notice both of those people complaining about it have google banner ads on their websites.
I think [...]

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004. Posted in TV, Technology, TiVO | No Comments »>

Free Showtime

DirecTV has just been nice enough to offer us 4 months of free Showtime (and the 8 or so other related premium channels). This morning I TiVo’d Master of the Flying Guillotine, aka One-Armed Boxer vs. the Flying Guillotine. I know Kt will be dying to watch that with me.

Monday, October 18th, 2004. Posted in Movies, TV | No Comments »>

Fun TiVo stuff

I’ll have to play with some of this stuff sometime.

Thursday, October 14th, 2004. Posted in TV, Technology, TiVO | No Comments »>

Huh?

This is some kind of joke, isn’t it? I find it very hard to believe a network would lock itself into a commitment like that for the year 2009.

Monday, September 27th, 2004. Posted in TV | No Comments »>

TiVO Rewards

I just signed up for a TiVO Rewards card. I should have a free TiVO for the bedroom before you know it!

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004. Posted in TV, TiVO | No Comments »>

The TV

It seems that I may be the only one around our house who doesn’t think we need a bigger TV right now. Which, I guess is odd. Isn’t it usually the “dad” that wants to buy those new toys? Katie came home from looking at some open houses in the neighborhood yesterday and [...]

Monday, August 2nd, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends, TV, TiVO | 1 Comment »>

TiVO++

Oh, man…they’re making me want another TiVO. Multi-room viewing? Yum.

Thursday, June 10th, 2004. Posted in TV, Technology, TiVO | No Comments »>

Mars and Venus

Kt and I were watching Las Vegas last night. As I watched James Caan be particularly hard-boiled in one scene, I said, “You know, I really need to watch Rollerball” (thinking, its been waaay too long since I’ve seen it).
Kt looked at me kind of blankly, and said, “What’s that?” Ah. Then [...]

Tuesday, May 11th, 2004. Posted in Family and Friends, TV | 2 Comments »>

TechTV staff fired

Bummer. I don’t watch TechTV that much, but I have always enjoyed The ScreenSavers, and watch it when it happens to come on a time that it’s convenient to watch.

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