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CES 2010 is Almost Here

The International CES conference in Las Vegas begins January 7th and I’ll be there from Wednesday – Sunday to check things out and look for new and exciting things worth mentioning.
If you are interested in periodic updates throughout the show, I’ll be posting photos and tweets to my twitter account.  You can follow me or [...]

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New TiVo DVR Pricing from DVRupgrade

New pricing on stock and upgraded TiVo HD models

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6-Months Free Netflix on TiVo HD Purchases

TiVo recently announced a promotion offering 6-months of FREE Netflix service valued at $8.99 / month. The promotion is only available between April 20th, 2009 and May 31st, 2009, and it’s a great deal if you are looking for an inexpensive way to stream Netflix’s online library to your TiVo HD, or save a [...]

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The Upcoming DIRECTV TiVo Whatever-its-Gonna-Be

TiVo recently put a new page on their site so that people can sign up to receive updates on the new box that will represent the consummation of TiVo and DIRECTV’s re-marriage.

Now, there still aren’t any real details about the implementation, but the vagueness continues to be troubling. Will it be a Series3 with [...]

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New DirecTV TiVo Delayed?

Well, just as we predicted the day TiVo and DIRECTV announced they would produce a next-generation High-Definition combo box, it sure looks like the project has already been delayed.
The original announcement was here, and it was particularly vague. Other than promising some advanced functionality common in today’s current TiVo boxes, and support for DIRECTV’s [...]

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