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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 ...

Got a TiVo? Your iPhone is your friend

by Robert Palmer (Jan 23rd, 2009)

If you have a TiVo, there are several apps in the App Store that can make recording and playing your favorite shows just a little easier. While none of them allow playback on the iPhone or iPod touch themselves, they're still useful tools for TiVo-holics. For those with TiVo Series 3 boxes, DVR ...

Schedule DirecTV recording with your iPhone

by Mel Martin (Jan 12th, 2009)

A lot of people may know about this, and a lot may not. Here's the straight skinny. Last year DirecTV rolled out the ability to go to a web page and give instructions to your DVR to record a program. TiVo and Replay TV also had this ability for quite some time. Meanwhile Dish Network just announced ...

TiVo launches mobile site

by Dave Caolo (Nov 25th, 2008)

Earlier this week, TiVo announced their new mobile site, m.tivo.com, and it's OK. Definitely not the solution I've been wanting from TiVo, but good at what it does. I tested it out on my iPhone and was able to find and schedule a recording easily. In fact, the process should be very familiar to ...

SuperSync adds support for TiVo Mp3s

by Mike Schramm (Apr 23rd, 2008)

We posted about SuperSync last year, and we just posted about another iTunes library syncing app, Syncopation. But just in case you've been waiting to sync your music libraries not just across iTunes but also to your TiVo, the wait is over -- SuperSync version 2.3 now does just that. You can connect ...