While Google Chromecast, Apple TV, and Roku have shifted streaming content from our mobile devices to our televisions, they’re often incomplete solutions. There’s a whole Internet worth of video content—from news feeds to public broadcasting productions—that the Chromecast just won’t play. But the Qplay will.
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TiVo has laid off the majority of its hardware team as it exits the DVR business and focuses instead on software licensing, sources say, including pushing TV recordings to the … Continue reading
Tivo has been bullish lately about releasing new products beyond its core DVR boxes. Today, we found out why. The company laid off nearly all the industrial designers of those products.
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Tivo has been bullish lately about releasing new software products beyond its core DVR boxes. Today, we found out why. The company laid off nearly all the industrial designers of those products.
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TiVo is showing off a prototype at CES that we hope launches at some point: a Network DVR that uploads your recordings to the cloud so you can watch them anywhere, anytime.
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The original founders of TiVo are starting a new business venture called QPlay. It’s an adapter for streaming TV reminiscent of the plug-and-play ease of Google’s Chromecast dongle and app set, but with the all-under-one-roof simplicity of a set-top box. Plug the QPlay box into your HDTV, plug the USB-connected power cord into a wall […]
There is a spanking new TiVo Slide Pro Remote in the market, where it will feature a slide out QWERTY keyboard as well as sport fully backlit buttons that make it a snap for you to use in dark rooms (which is normal whenever dusk falls and you want to enjoy your favorite movie or TV show in the comfort of your living room with all of the lights turned off). Apart from that, the TiVo Slide Pro Remote will also feature an ergonomic exterior that makes it pleasing to the eyes, but external aesthetics are not the only thing that make the TiVo Slide Pro Remote worth checking out.
It is said to be accompanied by a more powerful signal, as apart from IR, one will also be able to enjoy an RF signal, which will do away with the need for line-of-sight requirements, hence making it the perfect trooper for an in-cabinet or home theatre setup. You also need not fret over the possibility of losing this remote, since pressing a button on either of these units will kick off a built-in remote finder. Just how does that work? A jingle will play, letting you know just where the TiVo Slide Pro Remote is, and there is no need to lose time looking for that remote when you can sit down on your favorite La-Z-Boy chair and watch whatever TV show that has caught your attention. The TiVo Slide Pro Remote will play nice with all TiVo Roamio DVRs, TiVo Premiere DVRs and TiVo Minis with dongle. [Press Release]
New TiVo Slide Pro Remote Announced original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Sure, it’s not a new gaming console, but a remote is still a very essential part of most everyone’s living room — at least for the time being. With that in mind, TiVo has announced the successor to its Slide Remote, adequately dubbing it the Slide Pro Remote. The company’s quick to point out its freshly minted slide-out QWERTY remote is more than just a prettier face: it features backlit keys, a more powerful signal thanks to RF support, search and back buttons, plus the ability to learn multiple commands (i.e. input, power, volume and more). TiVo’s Slide Pro Remote is not only compatible with the Roamio, but also the Premiere and Mini DVRs. Better yet, it’s available now for a mere $50, which, by the way, is about $40 cheaper than its predecessor was way back when.
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Back in September, Virgin Media in the UK gave in and offered a limited number of its subscribers using TiVo set-top boxes access to Netflix. The Netflix application operated directly on the set-top box, meaning that users didn’t have to switch to a different device or change inputs to watch Netflix streaming content. Originally, Virgin Media tested Netflix with only 40,000 of its TiVo subscribers.
The company announced today that it is now rolling out access to the Netflix application to all of its TiVo set-top box subscribers. Access is rolling out over the next few days and it will coexist along with Virgin Media’s current range of on-demand content.
Virgin Media subscribers who have a TiVo set-top box and subscribe to Premier or VIP Collections tiers will be able to get a free six-month trial of Netflix if they don’t already have a Netflix account. I’m sure I’m not the only fan of Netflix glad to see at least one cable provider get rid of the fear that Netflix will hurt its profitability.
Hopefully, we’ll start to see more cable and satellite providers warm up to partnerships with the service in the near future.
[via TheNextWeb]
Back in September, we heard the first rumblings that Virgin Media in the UK would be offering the ability to stream Netflix content to users of its TiVo set-top boxes. The move came as part of an effort by TiVo to help Netflix get on the set-top boxes around the world. TiVo boxes are currently […]
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