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Loewe TVs Now Let Users Stream Video Content From One TV To Another

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2:45PM May 3, 2011 | Nick Broughall

You could argue that having a dumb screen connected to a smart box is a much smarter solution to the question of getting digital content to your TV, but Loewe’s new Follow Me function looks like a pretty solid feature to have in any TV. It lets you stream video content from any Loewe SL series TV to any other Loewe SL series TV so you can pause the TV program and pick up where you left off in another room. More »


Gaming

TiVo Number 1 in sales for HD-PVR in 2010

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4:05PM March 1, 2011 | Daniel Long

Given TiVo’s staffing woes last year, we’re not quite sure what to make of these sales figures. I guess the good news for TiVo is that they obviously sold more than they expected during a difficult year for the company. According to TiVo’s latest figures, TiVo sales grew more than 29% in December 2010 under what was widely considered by economists to be a fairly lacklustre retail season. More »


Entertainment

How To Automatically Download TV Shows As Soon As They’ve Aired (or Turn Your PC Into A TiVo)

5:40AM March 1, 2011 | Adam Dachis

Video content is readily available online for you to download, but the download process isn’t always as simple and automated as using something like a TiVO to simply schedule the content you want to watch. Fortunately, there are some great tools to help you do that with both BitTorrent and Usenet. Here’s how to set them up and turn your computer into an internet PVR. More »


Gadgets

Series Record Without The Internet Connection

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4:21PM February 22, 2011 | Daniel Long

Aussie PVR manufacturer Topfield has released an update for their best selling PVR that would if verified, make it the first such PVR in the country to offer series recording without an internet connection. More »


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TiVo Adds NBC Universal, Icon and Umbrella

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12:05PM September 15, 2010 | Alex Kidman

Three more movie studios to offer VOD movies to TiVo customers. More »


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Apple Patent Shows iPods Capable Of Receiving, Recording Live TV

12:13AM January 16, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Could Apple’s next-gen iPods be able to receive and record a TV signal? If you think that’s more suited to an iPod touch, guess again – as these unearthed patents reveal a Classic is also being considered. More »


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Foxtel Activating That 4th Tuner In Your iQ2

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1:04PM September 18, 2008 | Nick Broughall

Back when the latest iteration of Foxtel’s iQ launched, one of the most interesting aspects was that there was a 4th HD digital tuner inside, except it was just lying there like some kind of fairytale princess waiting to be woken up by a digital Prince Charming.

Well, the good news is that the digital prince will be rolling out to iQ2 boxes around the country starting next week to activate the sleeping 4th tuner. Once it’s been woken up, Princess Tuner Number 4 will allow you to record two channels at the same time as watching a third channel live (at the moment you can only record two and either watch one of them, or watch something already recorded to the HDD or watch one of the On Demand movies or shows).

All iQ2 subscribers should be getting the update rolled out by December 1, but you won’t be notified when it’s been upgraded. It’s also a staggered rollout, so you’ll just have to keep trying to record Futurama at the same time as The Daily Show and Star Trek Voyager to see if you’ve been updated yet.

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TiVo HD Coming to DirecTV Next Year

12:15AM September 4, 2008 | Mark Wilson

TiVo and DirecTV have a chaotic history, but now that it’s all straightened out, the two companies can move forward to release new hardware. Now they’re planning a follow up to the HD DirecTiVo, the aging, discontinued HD TiVo platform for DirecTV that used inefficient MPEG2 encoding. Expected in the second half of 2009, the new TiVo HD will support MPEG4 recording and newer TiVo features like Swivel Search. As a former TiVo user who’s now running an HR21 with a less than optimal interface, I can only see more DVR options as a good thing. [Zatz Not Funny]

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Is Panasonic’s European BD Recorder Better Than Ours?

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3:58PM August 29, 2008 | Nick Broughall

In case you missed it today, there’s a big conference happening in Europe called IFA at the moment. And while we haven’t yet seen the Panasonic presentation, the guys from Trusted Reviews did, and they scored a photo of the presentation slide for Panny’s new Blu-ray recorder. Although when we say new, we mean new to Europe, not new to Australia – the DMR-BW500 has been out in Australia for a couple of months.

But is it the same device? Eagle-eyed reader Anthony pointed out that the slide Panasonic showcased at IFA explicitly says that it features BD-Live technology, which we know for a fact that the Australian version doesn’t. Considering you need an Ethernet port (or inbuilt Wi-Fi, I guess) plus some dedicated storage on board to be able to use BD-Live, it would mean that the DMR-BW500 for Europe would have different hardware to the Australian model.

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TiVo Auto-Delete Flag Returns (Thank God It Was Only Star Trek)

9:30AM August 17, 2008 | Matt Buchanan

In case you didn’t already know, broadcasters can slip “flags” into TV shows telling your DVR to not record it or to delete it when it hits an expiration date. TiVo users last had a run-in with the auto-delete flag a couple years ago (Media Centre users had a more recent taste), but it looks like it’s back and haunting Star Trek fans.

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