6 posts and columns on PVR

Yahoo Shares Trade South for Winter

in News on September 3, 2008 at 1:44 pm PT

TiVo Time-Shifts DirecTV Partnership

in News on September 3, 2008 at 11:44 am PT

So TiVo’s on-again, off-again relationship with DirecTV? It’s on again. After ditching the TiVo platform in Feb. 2007 for a competing personal video recorder made by sister company NDS Group, DirecTV has circled back to embrace the PVR pioneer’s platform once again.

Time-Shifting the Ad Industry: Tom Rogers, President and CEO, TiVo

in D6 on May 29, 2008 at 11:11 am PT

Tom Rogers, a well-rounded media executive, has had his work cut out for him at TiVo, the iconic but often-struggling pioneer and leader in the digital video-recorder market. Before coming to TiVo, Mr. Rogers was chairman and CEO of Primedia, which publishes 200 magazines, operates more than 400 Web sites and runs a wide range of television and video businesses.
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Apple TVo?

in News on March 13, 2008 at 2:59 pm PT

Lest there be any doubt that DVR functionality was purposefully left out of Apple TV, consider this patent recently unearthed by AppleInsider. Filed in October of 2006, the patent describes not just a version of Apple TV capable of browsing and recording live TV programming, but a touch-based remote that could be preloaded with upcoming [...]

The New Digital Dictionary

in The Mossberg Report on October 10, 2006 at 12:01 am PT

Since the digital revolution began 30 years ago, computers and other devices have been steeped in technobabble, an argot designed to make insiders feel smart, average users feel dumb and salespeople feel superior. Of course, every industry has its jargon. But it’s hard to think of a vocabulary that’s denser yet so widely used as [...]