by Rob Cottingham | Nov 26, 2007 | Culture, Arts and Popcorn, Technology
Friends, our long national nightmare is over. As the CBC is reporting, TiVo is officially on its way across the border: The TiVo set-top device, which allows viewers to record shows and skip commercials, will be available across Canada – except in Quebec –... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 20, 2007 | Technology
A service update that promised new functionality for setting up keyword searches also, unless I’m losing my mind (always a possibility to consider), added a bunch of new graphics. The navigational icons and highlight now have a little depth plus the kind of... by Rob Cottingham | Apr 26, 2006 | Technology
Maybe not all by my lonesome. But about two weeks ago, I called the TiVo support line, fed up with a months-long problem where every single TiVo show we recorded was being flagged for timed deletion: one week was the longest we could keep anything, and any show we... by Rob Cottingham | Dec 24, 2005 | Technology
After two months of waiting, wrangling and wondering, our WeaKnees hard drive upgrade for our TiVo arrived at the door this afternoon. However, we had no room for it, and told the Canada Post guy to leave it in a manger… wait a sec. Wrong story. This is the... by Rob Cottingham | Nov 15, 2005 | Blogging, Technology
Waiting isn’t easy… TiVo does a great job of recording and playing video… but when it comes to scheduling the beast, it slows to a crawl. Maybe that’s because it has a processor speed of only 50 MHz, and 32 MB of RAM. Your average gaming...