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[P2P Blog] More troubling is the fact that Tivo uses it’s Tivocast feature to sign up TV studios as content partners. Tivo tested this feature with Rocketboom - and it was revolutionary: For the first time you could subscribe to a video podcast and watch it on your livingroom TV without even touching your PC.

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Tivoblog.comhttp://www.tivoblog.com [Tivoblog.com] TiVo Blog » Blog Archive » More On The Time Warner Series 3 TiVo Issue: I actually see a bright side to this, either this will force the FCCs hand to compel the cable companies to support the Series3 or it will force TiVo to make a Series3 that works with any system like the current Series2 Stand Alone does, all they would have to do is give it some inputs and an IR blaster.

[I40.com] i40.com: With any luck this will help me turn my "hey I need to blog about such and .out the best video format to use for watching TV ripped from our Tivos on it.

Edn.com[Edn.com] Can TiVo get PVR/DVR right? - On The Verge - Blog on EDN - 150000015: There are at least three troubling aspects to TiVo's dependence on DirecTV for growth. Furthermore there are several suppliers of TV cards that can .

Customerevangelists.typepad.com[Customerevangelists.typepad.com] Church of the Customer Blog: Why TiVo hasn't "tipped": There is another community that TiVo is not using to advantage - the early adopter technophiles who form the "TiVo Underground." In the early days of the product, resourceful customers figured out how to open up the box to expand the storage capacity, add new features, and make the TiVo part of a larger, networked future. Rather than embrace this community, or perhaps ignore it, TiVo has tried to stamp it out through actions such as encryption keys that keep the box from running anything but the corporately-provided software.

[Uscpubd510.blogspot.com] Set-Top Cop: TiVo's "self-destruct button" destructs: Our initial test was smooth: we got high-def HDMI output to the JVC receiver and the attached HDTV, and a simultaneous standard-def signal from the TiVo's S-Video and composite outputs (which we were watching on separate monitors). But when we moved onto another program--Revenge of the Sith, recorded off of HBO-HD--the screen suddenly went gray, with a TiVo warning emblazoned across the bottom: "Viewing is not permitted using the TiVo Digital Media Recorder.

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