Steve's little hobby has been so little, not even he is talking about Apple TV lately. I still mantain that currently it's nothing more than a glorified, overpriced media extender, but I still envision a futuristic AppleTV that has both DVR and Slingbox capabilities and that version changes my view dramatically.
We're seemingly ...
Nielsen now estimates that 28 million homes have DVRs and that 30% have more than one. That means the installed base of DVRs in the US is at least 36.4 million units.
The latest figures from Nielsen show that DVR penetration has climbed to 25% of U.S. homes--up 5% from nine months ...
TiVo Loses 145k Subscribers vs. 121k in Previous Quarter
As of April 30, 2008 TiVo had 1.728 million subscribers (down 17,000) using its own DVRs and 2.073 million subscribers with DirecTV TiVo DVRs (down 128,000).
To see TiVo's share of the DVR installed base (last updated Aug 2007) go here.
TiVo is rolling out a feature to its Chicago area viewers where they will be automatically able to record Chicago Tribune TV critic Maureen Ryan's picks. As a result of doing this blog I have become a regular reader of Ms. Ryan's column The Watcher and I really enjoy ...
Just a follow-up on the HBO on iTunes deal. I suppose it's somewhat remarkable only in that HBO was able to get Steve Jobs to bend over and take one for the team. But really I think Jobs just figured, "these guys are dopes, but I kind of need these ...
Wayne Friedman at MediaWatch, has some quotes from Sinclair Broadcast Group's CEO David Smith saying that DVR usage has had little impact on his stations. Now I don't know the Sinclair business at all, so I'm not able to say whether Smith is correct, posturing, or ignoring reality.
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Mark Cuban has a great post up on his blog titled The Ala Carting of Video on the Net - Will it lead to disaster ?
I've been reading Cuban long enough to know that if he poses a question like that in a blog title, he definitely thinks the answer ...
I finally caught BSG live via the HD feed to check it out. I think the complaints about Comcast highly compressing the HD feed for the SCI Fi channel are probably correct. I watched the show live because watching it via DVR just compresses it more.
I talked to Bill earlier ...
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