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Wall Street Journal goes hands-on with TiVo Stream

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 31st, 2012)

Earlier this week, TiVo confirmed it will start selling its TiVo Stream transcoder box in early September. Announced at CES 2012, the TiVo Stream connects to a TiVo Premiere set-top box and streams both recorded and live TV to your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The Wall Street Journal got a ...

TiVo Stream iOS transcoder box due September 6th

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 29th, 2012)

Earlier this year, TiVo unveiled the TiVo Stream, a streaming media device that sends TiVo content to your iPad and iPhone. TiVo had a prototype of the device at CES 2012 and later confirmed the Stream would land this summer. Now that the summer is over, the company is ready to kick off sales ...

Daily Update for May 22, 2012

by Steven Sande (May 22nd, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

TiVo planning iOS streaming for this summer

by Mike Schramm (May 22nd, 2012)

Here's some good news for TiVo users: The DVR company is planning to follow the lead of other broadcasting services, and provide for streaming of recorded TiVo content to iOS devices later this summer. To do so, you'll need to have a TiVo Premiere, which is the company's web-connected DVR ...

TiVo app now supports iPhone, series 3 DVRs

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 12th, 2011)

Tivo has finally released its DVR app for the iPhone or iPod touch, a new version that offers many of the features of its bigger iPad cousin. The iPhone version lets Tivo users manage their recording schedule, browse throughout content and control their DVR easily from their phone. The app also ...

TiVo announces plans for updated iPad app

by Steven Sande (Jun 13th, 2011)

Do you own a TiVo Premiere or Premiere XL box? And do you use the free TiVo iPad companion app as a remote control for that box? If so, you'll be happy to hear that TiVo has announced plans for an updated version of the app. While the update isn't available on the App Store at this time, it ...

i.TV extends to the iPad, adds Hulu integration

by Michael Rose (May 5th, 2011)

The free i.TV app for iPhone has been providing program guide and show information for TV addicts since October of 2008, and it's been improving steadily since then. With version 3, now available on the App Store, the app has gone universal and provides a full-screen iPad experience for ...

TiVo asks customers about live iPad streaming

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 9th, 2011)

As Engadget notes, TiVo has launched a survey asking current customers if they'd like to be able to "stream live TV, DVR recordings and TV shows from a cable company's On Demand library to one's iPad." The survey asks users how they would feel about about both streaming video from their TiVo while ...

TiVo app available on App Store

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 19th, 2011)

Roughly two months after announcing that a TiVo app was in development, TiVo Premiere for iPad was released on Tuesday. Users can browse program guides, schedule recordings, remotely control their TiVo and more. It joins a slew of other apps compatible with TV services such as DISH and ...

TiVo says iPad app due by end of January

by David Quilty (Jan 11th, 2011)

In what could only loosely be called a formal announcement, The Mac Observer is reporting that TiVo took to the Twitter airwaves today to let us know that the TiVo-branded iPad app should be out before the end of January 2011. Back in November 2010 was the first time we had heard about an upcoming ...

Apple patent frenzy: TV set-top box, Cinema Display, iChat, liquid metal

by Chris Rawson (Jan 6th, 2011)

According to Patently Apple, this week Apple's been granted a storm of patents. The patents include: 1. An advanced set-top box that sounds like the superhero offspring of the current Apple TV and a TiVo set. What's new and exciting in this patent is a multiple search engine implementation that ...

TiVo announces iPad app to control TiVo box

by Michael Gray (Nov 23rd, 2010)

If you're like most iPad users, then you probably surf the web and check out IMDB with your iPad while watching anything that might be showing on the television. TiVo knows this, embraces this, and wishes to support this. They want to make the experience between your television and your iPad even ...

Rumor: TiVo stock climbs on talk of deal with Apple for new Apple TV

by Steven Sande (Jul 26th, 2010)

A small post in Barron's noted today that TiVo shares have jumped up about 5% today on rumors that the company's DVR technology may be included in the next iteration of the Apple TV. TiVo's Premiere device has greater functionality than the Apple TV, with the ability to record up to 150 hours of ...

Followup: Transmit TV audio through your Mac

by Erica Sadun (Sep 25th, 2009)

After my post earlier this week about transmitting Mac audio, readers contacted me about extending this solution. Although they liked the idea of direct audio while working out on a treadmill or exercise bike, several stated that they also wanted to watch from the sofa once the spouse or the kid go ...

DVR Remote 2 available, but you may want to wait

by Robert Palmer (May 11th, 2009)

Stutsman Software has released version 2 of DVR Remote, an app we covered a while back that lets you use your iPhone or iPod touch as a remote control for your TiVo Series 3 via WiFi. One user, however, is reporting an issue with a Now Playing list that never ends -- that is, its contents are ...