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Corker Capital Group's Entertainment Stocks for Feb 25, 2005

ATLANTA, GA--(MARKET WIRE)--Feb 25, 2005 -- Corker Capital Group announces the following stocks to its Stock Market Standouts List: Silver Screen Studios, Inc. (OTC BB: SSSU), Apple Computer (NasdaqNM:AAPL), Microsoft (NasdaqNM:MSFT), Intel (NasdaqNM:INTC)...More

Zacks.com Announces That Ian Wyatt Highlights the Following Stocks: YouBet.com, Kintera and Tivo

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2005--The fourth quarter earnings season isn't over yet, and Ian Wyatt, editor of the Growth Report newsletter, has provided some performance updates for high growth investment opportunities. Take a look at YouBet.com (NASDAQ:UBET), Kintera (Nasdaq:KNTA - News)...More

DVR News: Everybody loves TiVo, but will it survive?

MercuryNews.com | 02/25/2005 | Everybody loves TiVo, but will it survive?(registration required) Can TiVo make it on its own? More on the buyout hype from Mercury News.Analysts say the timing would be right for TiVo to seek a company to...More

DVR News: Apple Deal Would Be Rotten for TiVo

Apple Deal Would Be Rotten for TiVo Phillip Swan agrees that TiVo could use a buyout - just not Apple.By late Thursday, however, the rumors appeared to be fading, which is good news for TiVo fans. Apple is one of...More

How to Get Hooked Up With Cable DVR Service

New York Post Online Edition: living Switching to DVR service is easy for Time Warner or Cablevision subscribers. Just switch out your cable box for a DVR and start paying a modest monthly fee.You can make the switch at a...More

DVR Users: Most Voracious Consumers of All Media

MediaPost Publications Home of MediaDailyNews, MEDIA and OMMA Magazines New data shows just how important it will be for advertisers to reach DVR users.NIELSEN MAY HAVE given the TV industry a reprieve on how digital video recorders are actually impacting...More

TiVo stock rises 18% on rumors in market / Potential bid from Apple appears unlikely

TiVo stock rises 18% on rumors in market / Potential bid from Apple appears unlikely TiVo shares were up 18% on wednesday on rumors that Apple might be interested in buying the DVR maker.Shares of TiVo, a pioneer in digital...More

Fast Forward Video Launches New FieldPro DVR

Ultra-Compact Personal Recorder With IDE Drives Offers Exceptional Image Quality and Recording Flexibility IRVINE, Calif. —February 15, 2005 — Fast Forward Video, Inc. (FFV), a recognized innovator of digital video recorder (DVR) technology for broadcast, industrial video, presentation, and military...More

TiVo hits three million mark

C21Media: Looks like TiVo passed the three million subscriber mark as they predicted in November.The company said late on Friday that it had added 698k subscriptions in its final quarter ending January 31, a figure which means that its subscription...More

Flickr/TiVo DVR App

Flickr/TiVo The new TiVO open source API has started generating some cool software. (via WebProNews)I have written an application for the new TiVo HME which can display Flickr pictures on your TiVo. You can choose to display pictures searching by...More

The Coming Television Revolution

by: Terry Mitchell The revolution is just getting started and will begin to make its mark this year. By 2010, it will begin to take off. By 2025, it will be the standard for all TV viewing. It's called Internet...More

Tvia's Industry-Leading CyberPro 5202 Digital Display Processor Powers POSDATA's New Digital Video Recorders

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tvia, Inc. , a leading provider of multimedia digital display processors for advanced television, emerging digital display, DVR security and consumer electronics markets, today announced that POSDATA has integrated and is shipping worldwide...More

AValonRF Presents and Demonstrates it"s "No Moving Part" Tracking Antenna Receivers at the AUVSI meeting in San Diego

AValonRF, Inc., Will present and demonstrate it"s "no moving part", Tracking Antenna receivers, Tuning Range - 460MHz-2.5GHz, C Band, KU Band, at the AUVSI chapter meeting in San Diego on February 24, 2005....More

Powerful New Video Platform Provides New Way for Television, Radio and Other Media to Interact with Their Audiences

KnowItAllVideo Platform Enables Audiences to Easily Upload Own Short-form Videos in Response to their Favorite Programs NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2005-- For television networks, radio companies and other major media conglomerates looking for ways to differentiate themselves and add value...More

Comcast working to squash DVR bugs

Yahoo! News - Comcast working to squash DVR bugs Comcast is scrambling to fix the buggy software that's been shipping on their DVRs for the last few weeks.Andrew Johnson, a Bay Area spokesman for Philadelphia-based Comcast, said the company had...More

Comcast DVR bugs continue

MercuryNews.com | 02/17/2005 | Comcast and its bug Comcast DVR subscribers continue to experience glitches in their new units. As the demand for these DVRs skyrockets, so does the urgency of fixing the problem....More

Humax DRT-800 Digital Video Recorder (DVR) Review

Humax DRT-800 (Twelve Black Code Monkeys) Levi Wallach provides a comprehensive review of the Humax DRT-800 DVR on twelveblackcodemonkeys.com (via pvrblog).In this review, I thought I'd talk mostly about the additional features that the DRT-800 has over and above all...More

MythTV 0.17 released

MythTV 0.17 released | PVRblog The folks ofer at PVRblog give the details on the new release of MythTV (via PVRblog).Some of the new features in this release are:Support for playback on Mac OS X (no recording yet)"Timestretch" to speed...More

DigitalDeck MX1000 Home Network DVR

DigitalDeck MX1000 Home Network DVR - Connected Home News - Designtechnica News Designtechnica News gives the scoop on the DigitalDeck MX1000 Home Network DVR system.The DDEN is designed to be a unfied, user-friendly system with a simple and elegant TV-based...More

Pioneer DVR-520H review

Pioneer DVR-520H review - DVD/VCR Combos - CNET Reviews CNET review of the Pioneer DVR-520H DVR-DVD burner combo giving it a rating of 7.0 out of 10.Although it lacks a programming guide like that of its TiVo-powered rivals, Pioneer's slim,...More

Developing for Television: TiVo Announces an SDK!

Developing for Television: TiVo Announces an SDK! TiVo has released an SDK to allow Series 2 users even greater control over their viewing experience.The truth is, a TiVo does change how you watch television. I'm not here to sell you...More

TiVo Report Shows Super Bowl, Ads Got Huge Audience; Sexy, Funny Ads Still Drew Most Enthusiastic Viewership

McCartney's Tamer Halftime Show Keeps More Viewers Tuned In Compared to Last Year's Halftime and ALVISO, CALIF. (February 7, 2005) - TiVo (NASDAQ:TIVO) said this year's Super Bowl and the commercials within it got the typical huge global audience as...More

DVR Review: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR150 Media Center Edition

RichardBerg: Review: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR150 Media Center Edition Richardberg.net reviews the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR150 complete with sample screen captures illustrating image quality.The PVR-150, despite its name-of-lesser-cardinality and cut-rate pricing, is actually the replacement for the PVR-250. I've had it confirmed that Hauppauge...More

DVR maker TiVo Open Sources its Platform

Fool.com: TiVo Opens Up [Motley Fool Take] January 31, 2005 Could this be a killer-app feature that helps save TiVo?TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO) might have been the last name you thought of when pondering the "open source" movement, but today, the...More

TiVo President Yudkovitz Resigns

Yahoo! News - TiVo President Yudkovitz Resigns; Shares Fall TiVo President Marty Yudkovitz is following CEO Michael Ramsay out the door.TiVo, whose shares fell 3.5 percent, said it has no immediate plans to replace Yudkovitz. Yudkovitz, a television industry veteran...More

Comcast DVR Glitches

MercuryNews.com | 01/31/2005 | Bigger glitch with Comcast's DVR service According to Mike Langberg at Mercury News the Comcast DVR is freezing up for a number of users and failing to record programs.I called Comcast last week and got the...More