WeaKnees Blog

2007 CES News
Here’s our roundup of some things we learned at CES this year:
-TiVo and Comcast show a demo
After quite a bit of work, TiVo and Comcast engineers have a prototype Comcast DVR running the full TiVo OS on top of a layer of middleware. Apparently, Comcast will be shipping a new TiVo peanut style [...]

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I know I promised a more complete roundup of events here at CES, but I have one more quick post before that happens. It seems that TiVo is a really important step forward for THX. TiVo graciously “lent” Shanan to the THX booth for demonstrations. They dedicated their prime position to a home theater room [...]

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Just in from the Seagate booth, the WeaKnees upgraded 750 GB super-quiet Series3 TiVo tops the stack of DVRs on display.

We’ll have a roundup of other info when we have some more time, but we’re pretty sure good things are in the works over at TiVo.

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We suspected that this was coming and now it is official. You can now purchase a Series3 TiVo through 1/31/07 and transfer your lifetime service through 3/2/07. New terms and conditions are here. Happy New Year!

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Previously, we reported that TiVo was permitting owners of DIRECTV DVRs to transfer lifetime service from those units to Series3 boxes.
Today TiVo changed the rules (again), and is now prohibiting transfers from DIRECTV TiVos that have lifetime service. We have many theories as to why they did it, but suffice it to say that for [...]

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