TiVo-related stuff
Does Barack Obama have a TiVo on Air Force One? This article seems to imply that, when talking about the president’s TV viewing habits: For less R-rated fare, he tunes into “Hannah Montana” or “SpongeBob SquarePants” in the White House with his daughters. Aides said he would have watched Monday night’s NCAA championship on TiVo …
Google’s annual April Fool’s day joke was pretty creative: AutoPilot to automatically respond to your e-mail messages. There was also PC World’s article about the new TiVo that can record shows before they air (the TiVo SuperAdvance) that I thought was cute. Other than that, I really didn’t see a lot of other tom-foolery. However, …
The new version of Galleon has been officially released. Here are the release notes (items in bold are my own personal contributions): added java parameter to favor IPv4 (should eliminate the need for disabling IPv6 on linux installs) added runlevel 2 to linux Makefile (for distros that use update-rc.d) fixed Movies app so it works …
It’s been a while since I last posted but I’ve been sick for the last week with a really bad chest cold. I actually stayed home from work on Wednesday (taking the rare, for me, sick day), slept pretty much the entire day and still really didn’t feel any better. I’ve still got the cough, …
Shortly after the new year began, I started converting all of my DVDs (and even some old VHS tapes!) into MP4 format with the goal being immediate access to my entire video library on any TiVo in the house using tools like pyTivo or streambaby. About two weeks into the project it became readily apparent …
Over the past few months I’ve dabbled with tivostream to send MP4-encoded video to my HD TiVo boxes, but usually I rely upon pyTivo to watch my video library. Tonight, kearygriffin over on the TiVo Community Forum announced streambaby (Stream, Baby, Stream) which builds on and extends what moyekj started with tivostream. As with its …
I started out 2009 by re-organizing my home theater media cabinet. Several years back I used to have a UPS in the cabinet to protect the various components and keep the TiVo running in case of the occasional power fluctuation (which can happen a lot during the summer months here in Florida). That UPS eventually …
New TiVo Mobile web site allows TV fans to browse, search, discover, and record television shows on the go, adding another great value to the already invaluable TiVo service Announced by TiVo this morning (and picked up by most of the gadget blogs I read), you can now schedule recordings and browse TV listings from …
Announced in the current issue of the TiVo newsletter, Netflix integration will be available on the Series3 and THD boxes next month! If you’re a Netflix subscriber, you’ll be able to “instantly” stream movies from Netflix to your TiVo … for free. I was a Netflix subscriber back in 1999 when I was still a …
John has released Galleon 2.5.4. Here’s what’s new, from the release notes: Fix ToGo looping bug on null recording date (1811137) Added user-selectable range for local radar image (100, 300, 600 miles) in Weather app auto-subdirectory publishing for GoBack, avoids the need to do it yourself and also avoids bugs in TiVo folder navigation in …