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Stop Censoring The Names Of Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Dickens And Other Penis Named People Please

1:20PM December 20, 2011 | Casey Chan

A cable company in the UK had a bit of a snafu with a super strict censoring system in its TV guide over the weekend. They were asterisking Alfred Hitchcock, Charles Dickens, the soccer team Arsenal, the movie Hancock and any other name or title that had a penis or butt related word in it. More »


TiVo Spread Internationally via Gemstar-TV Guide

6:57AM April 9, 2008 | Jason Chen

TiVo has just made a patent licence agreement with Gemstar-TV Guide in order for the latter to deploy TiVo service in international markets. In regular language, that means TiVo service is coming to other countries, but may be either in actual TiVo boxes or as just software in a third-party box. Either way, chances are that it has features like Amazon Unbox are very low. Hit the jump for the full release.

AU: Not sure how this effects the Aussie rollout of TiVo… I’ll try and find out today and update later.

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