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TiVo Attempts to Save the Commercial

The State | 12/31/2004 | Bidding farewell to what will soon be obsolete It's true. DVRs are addictive. Aside from being able to watch what I want when I want, I love to ability to squeeze an hour of television...More

Death Of The 30-Second Spot?

Yahoo! News - Death Of The 30-Second Spot? With DVR users skipping commercials, advertisers have been forced to get creative. The 30 second spot is starting to give way to product placement. This will become increasingly important over the next...More

Nvidia Announces PureVideo Technology - Computing News - Designtechnica News

Nvidia Announces PureVideo Technology �The personal computer has never been well-regarded for its abilities to deliver high-quality video playback,� said Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of marketing at NVIDIA. �The GeForce 6 Series with PureVideo technology finally merges the flexibility...More

DVR Review: TiVo

Average Guy's Tech Blog - the boiled down, low down on tech stuff: Start w/ the best: TiVo! Average Guy's Tech Blog just posted a good review of TiVo. They recommend the DirecTiVo Hughes HDVR2 (dual tuner) w/ the Triple...More

DVR Light: Cable Comes to Rescue of Channel Surfers

Cable Comes to Rescue of Channel Surfers (full story) Time Warner Cable is developing a sort of light alternative to the Digital Video Recorder that would only allow a user to start the current live program from the beginning. It...More

New Survey Reveals DVR Users Watch More Video-on-Demand

New Survey Reveals DVR Users Watch More Video-on-Demand: By Lyra Resarch Fetching by Remote: A Survey of Video-on-Demand Users, a new report in Lyra Research's DTV View report series, reveals that digital video recorder (DVR) users watch more video-on-demand (VOD)...More

Dish leaps into San Francisco-area DVR scuffle

Dish leaps into San Francisco-area DVR scuffle | CNET News.com The DVR marketing battle rages on in San Francisco! Recently TiVo gave away close to 2,000 DVRs to Comcast subscribers (story here) after Comcast failed to deliver DVRs to it's...More

Free DVRs in 2005!

The battle for DVR market dominance is on and the price wars have begun! Phillip Swann, president of TVPredictions.com is predicting that cable and satellite companies will be giving DVR service away for free with their service. Free DVRs in...More