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01/10/2005
B.S. from DC
NCTA says TiVo, Intel and Microsoft’s claim about CableCARDs is a load of bull. The trio claims the only way to reduce the retail price of CableCARD products is to require cable ops to rely on the cards. "What will impact the market is CE manufacturers reducing the prices of their HDTVs to something the […]
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01/10/2005
Meet the System–San Francisco Bay Area: Meet the New Cable Company, (Not the) Same as the Old Cable Company
Imagine the plight of Barbary Coast dance hall girls: Night after night they’d find themselves in the arms of yet another drunken sailor promising eternal love, and morning after morning they’d wake up to the grim realization that all they’d had was yet another one-night stand. Strip away the 19th century tawdriness and the tinkling […]
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01/07/2005
Plugging Along: Cable Plays Up Examples of Partnership
That piece by Saul Hansell in The NY Times Thurs highlighting cable’s "bottleneck control" over the way Americans watch TV had tongues wagging at CES and MSO boardrooms. The story focused on how those increasingly advanced set-tops provided by cable companies make it hard for the flashy devices displayed at the show to control the […]
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01/04/2005
Goin' Mobile
Desperate to differentiate itself from cable’s DVR services, TiVo kicked off its long-awaited "TiVoToGo" product, an automatic, free service upgrade for owners of "Series2" units that allows users to view content they’ve recorded at home on any laptop or PC running Microsoft "Windows XP" or "2000" operating systems. (A Mac-friendly version also is in the […]
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12/21/2004
Bay Watch
Not to be outdone, Dish Network jumped in to the San Fran Bay area DVR fray, with an ad in The San Jose Mercury News asking: "San Jose, Where’s the DVR cable promised you?". TiVo gave away 2K free DVRs to Comcast subs Fri after local media reported the MSO’s customers were disappointed to learn […]
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12/20/2004
TiVo Giveaway
TiVo gave away about 2K DVRs Fri to Comcast subs who brought in a copies of their cable bills and gifts for charity (Cfax, 12/17). Those who came after all the freebies were gone were given $50 coupons for a TiVo DVR (the coupon is on top of a $100 rebate, putting the DVR’s price […]