Not such great news if you own a TiVo or were (perhaps improbably) planning to buy one this weekend: there will be a bunch of service outages next week for systems maintenance. Danny over at Gizmodo has the full details; we can’t imagine too many people use their TiVo to record daytime TV, but it’s still something to keep an eye on. [Gizmodo]
It’s always welcome news when options for accessing unmetered TV and movie content expand. TiVo has added ispONE and ComCen to the list of ISPs that offer unmetered access to its CASPA on-demand service, giving it a total of eight partners. More »
Foxtel’s announcement today of Internet-driven video-on-demand (VOD) is the newest addition to an increasingly crowded marketplace. Planhacker rounds up what you’ll pay for movie and TV rental downloads. More »
TiVo Genie fixes one of the more obvious omissions in the popular PVR device, letting you remotely schedule recordings on your TiVo from a PC or mobile phone. More »
While Snow Leopard doesn’t seem to have broken too many Mac apps, when it does it seems to do so pretty spectacularly. If you’ve been trying to use the TiVo Transfer feature in Toast 10, here’s the steps you need to follow to make it actually work. More »
To date, TiVo’s main offering in the video-on-demand space has been movies in partnership with Blockbuster. That’s about to expand dramatically however, with the release of new higher-capacity TiVo-branded PVRs and a host of download options. More »
iiNet already has a pretty generous suite of unmetered content — including iView, iTunes and a bunch of streaming video and audio channels — and it just got a little larger with the addition of TiVo to the list. More »
If you don’t fancy paying for movie downloads, TiVo has just expanded its service with an entirely free option: radio podcasts from the Nova and Vega networks. More »
Downloading movies from TiVo can be a potentially ruinous exercise for your bandwidth cap, so it’s good to see iPrimus following Internode’s lead and offering uncapped downloads for TiVo users. More »
Well, here’s one way to fill that new 1TB drive you just attached to your TiVo: purchase and download a movie from Blockbuster onto it. More than 100 movies are being offered at launch, with new titles at $5.95 and older fare for $3.95 a pop. More »
