The history of the TiVo Remote
20 Jun 2008 6:24pm GMT Gizmodo has an awesome and exhaustive history of the TiVo remote including lots of prototypes and molds and reasoning for why things turned out the way they did. After 8 years of using it, the TiVo peanut remote is still...
TBS ups the ante on annoying commerical insertion
4 Jun 2008 5:17pm GMT My friend Jason caught TBS going to extraordinary lengths to get people to view an ad about an upcoming show by having an overlay character "walk on" and "pause" the current running show to plug their own show, then the...
Netflix Player by Roku
20 May 2008 4:07pm GMT The long rumored set-top box for Netflix movies has finally arrived: Roku's Netflix Player. At $99 it doesn't look like too bad of a deal and along with a $17.99 Netflix account, it'll allow you to watch an unlimited number...
TiVo Rewards Program almost over
12 May 2008 7:16pm GMT It's been a long time coming but it looks like the TiVo Rewards program is finally shuttering in a couple weeks. I just got my last reminder email and I spent my last 5,000 points (screenshot above is from my...
TiVo Network Remotes for iPhone, Ubuntu
12 May 2008 4:50pm GMT Thanks to last Fall's update to the TiVo OS, there was an undocumented way to telnet commands to your TiVo that Dave Zatz describes in this post. It was a bit of a hack and not much more than a...