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TiVo DirecTV PVR delayed until 2010

By Chris Davies on Friday, May 29th 2009 No Comments

TIVO directTV 731185TiVo have pushed back their DirecTV TiVo DVR plans to early 2010, rather than the second-half of 2009 as originally suggested.  Revealed in the company’s quarterly financial call – in which TiVo confirmed that they had made a net loss of $4.1m in the three month period – no official reason for the delay was given.

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Liberty Entertainment and DirecTV to merge

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, May 4th 2009 No Comments

dtv 3d directv white 145x145 customDirecTV announced today that they will be merging with Liberty Entertainment, a spinoff from Liberty Media, soon and will place the TV provider in direct connection with actual TV channels.

Specifically, DirecTV will become associated with three sports channels and the Game Show Network. Not much will change at DirecTV itself, with all executives keeping their jobs, however John Malone, the founder of Liberty Media will remain in charge.

The entire merger is expected to be finished by year’s end. This venture follows the grab up of Sirius XM by Liberty Media. At the moment, it is not foreseeable how Liberty Entertainment’s stake in DirecTV will affect their stake in Sirius.

Tivo teams up with DirectTV to develop new HD DVR

By Daniel Lim on Wednesday, Sep 3rd 2008 No Comments

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Good news for Tivo fans stuck in Cable mode. The country largest satellite service provider with 17.1- million subscribers, DIRECTV has announced today that they are teaming up with TIVO to develop a new DIRECTV HD DVR featuring TiVo’s recording service. The new TiVo-DirecTV DVR is expected to be available in the second half of 2009. It will support both companies’ features and services but subscriber’s pricing and packaging for the high-definition TiVo-DirecTV product has yet to be determined.

Go! Tivo
[via forbes]

2TB HD Storage Add-On for DirecTV Subscribers

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Dec 14th 2007 No Comments

You have to admit that the OEM DVR capacity is simply not enough for hardcore movie fan. My self-upgraded TIVO S3 has 750GB and it already filled out in one fall season; I barely season-pass, just a few favorite shows of mine. If you are DirecTV subscriber with HR20 HD DVR box and facing the same issue like I do. Tenlab has a high performance and high capacity storage solution for you.

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Yet Another DVR Technology Changing Hands, DirecTV Buys ReplayTV

By Daniel Lim on Thursday, Dec 13th 2007 No Comments

ReplayTv lost the living room not too long ago to Tivo, they went ‘soft’ with PC DVR application hope to turn the business around. That didn’t work either. D&M Holdings Inc sold ReplayTV Assets to DirecTV today and that marked another buyout on ReplayTV’s technology.

Yet Another DVR technology changing hand, DirectTV brought ReplayTV

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DirecTV HR21 Pro DVR Is Rack-Mountable HD Recording Dream

By James Allan Brady on Saturday, Sep 1st 2007 No Comments

So, being the shallow person I am, I am going to go ahead and judge this book by its rack-mountable cover, its not gonna be cheap. It can record up to 100 hours of HD content, and since it is for the DirecTV network you can bet users will have plenty of HD content to record.

DirecTV HR21 Pro DVR

It will support 1080p output, through its pretty Optical HDMI port. There is a whole slew of ports pictured on the back, but none of them are OTA antenna connectors for recording HD over the air.

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