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TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) has announced a partnership with the Chicago Tribune that will allow TiVo subscribers to automatically record the recommendations of TV critic Maureen Ryan. Right now it’s a pretty narrow project: It’s just one critic and it’ll only be available to about 100,000 subscribers in the Chicagoland area according to NYT. The article [...]

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TiVo now offers movies from all major studios directly to the television set
TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO - News), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced that TiVo subscribers will soon be able to download movies from The Walt Disney Studios to their broadband connected TiVo® DVRs [...]

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For a company whose product sported a beautiful interface, TiVo’s web site was alway pretty ugly. But that’s all changed, as the DVR company has given its web presence a dramatic makeover to match its signature style. It’s even incorporated the playful pop and bell sounds TiVo makes.
The site is a dramatic improvement over the [...]

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TiVo Desktop Plus 2.6 now released - Digital Home
TiVo today announced its subscribers can now watch internet video on their televisions through an updated version of TiVo’s Desktop Plus PC software.
The new feature, which was first announced at January’s Consumer Electronics Show, lets users download Web videos and video podcasts to their computers for [...]

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YouTube getting TV shot from TiVo - The Los Angeles Times
Website visitors will have another way to view the videos.
YouTube, not happy to be just an Internet site, is expanding to the medium it has helped undermine — the boob tube.
On Wednesday, TiVo Inc., the digital video recorder maker, announced that its customers would [...]

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Watch TiVo evolve with the industry, CEO says - The Los Angeles Times
TiVo Inc. is more famous than it is rich.
The Alviso, Calif., company is best known for its pioneering device that lets television viewers record, pause and rewind live TV shows.
But despite its watershed technology and near household-name recognition, TiVo has struggled to make [...]

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NBC Universal Partners With TiVo on Advertising and Research Solutions - CNN Money
NBCU to Sell TiVo’s Interactive Advertising to Target Fast-Forwarding Viewers and Subscribes to TiVo’s Stop||Watch(TM) Ratings Service
TiVo Inc. , the creator and a leader in advertising solutions and television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), and NBC Universal (NBCU) have entered into a [...]

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