Digital video recorders (DVRs) are commonplace but usually they're integrated with a cable decoder. Tablo's offering records OTA (over the air) HD broadcasts that are transmitted from local TV stations, free of charge. Still not excited? The Tablo can stream both live and record programs to any connected device including Android and Apple devices, and set-top boxes like the Roku
DirecTV subscribers are often frustrated by the lack of benefits to current customers, while the service continues to advertise great deals, like free NFL Sunday Ticket, to new subscribers. Well, right now the satellite company is throwing a bone to current users by offering their brand new Genie HD DVR for free. The Genie is the latest upgrade to the
TiVo has been rolling out Hulu Plus on their Premier boxes for awhile now and it became available to me around the first week of June. I had used and cancelled Hulu Plus, before so I wasn't eligible for the free trial. However, the Premier TiVo is connected to our living room TV, and I thought Hulu might be something
Recently it seems that satellite TV provider DirecTV accidentally released some information about the DirecTiVo, which used to exist, went away, and then was brought back, but has been "in the works" for around three years now. Users over at the DBSTalk forums began reporting that the DirecTiVo briefly appeared as available for purchase on the DirecTV website for sale
A few days ago I had a DirecTV HR23 box go belly-up. I awoke one morning to the smell of melted plastic. I didn't open the box, so I don't know what went wrong, but it was obviously something bad. Despite having no LED lights on the front panel there was still power - although it wouldn't even try to
I recently lost my TiVo remote and I don't care. It's not because I not using TiVo anymore I use it almost daily. However I have fallen in love with the TiVo remote on the Ipad. It is so much better and easier to use then the physical TiVo remote. The TiVo remote is free from the Itunes App
It’s been a while since dumping my $100-dollar-per-month Dish Network habit. Ominously for the existing broadcast/cable/satellite structure, I haven’t missed it – not even one little bit. Sorry guys, that money now goes for other discretionary things. Save Our Buggy Whips! I saw an article about the traditional broadcasters in Canada saying they needed to somehow “get ahead” of the