We got a knock on our front door this afternoon and when Judy answered, the guy at the door informed us that he was here to deliver a piano. Huh? You must have the wrong address because we didn’t buy a piano. Well, we (Judy and I) didn’t buy a piano, but it turns out [...]

Posted by Roger at 8:27 pm.

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After a decade with TiVo, Paul has decided to pursue other opportunities. The Consumer Design Group, which Paul led, got together to create a really cool plaque which we presented to Paul on his last day. Here are some pics of the plaque as well as some shots of the group.

Posted by Roger at 9:07 pm.

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Great news today on our long-running patent case against Echostar. This morning, we issued this statement:
We are extremely pleased that the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit unanimously ruled in our favor in EchoStar’s appeal of the district court judgment of patent infringement, full award of damages and that the injunction, which [...]

Posted by Roger at 10:30 pm.

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Today, we issued the following statement:
“We are extremely pleased that the PTO has now found all claims of the Time Warp Patent to be valid after conducting a reexamination of the patent requested by EchoStar. This decision by the PTO is final and not appealable by EchoStar. Today’s decision by the PTO brings us [...]

Posted by Roger at 9:39 pm.

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Paul thought it would be fun to do something special to commemorate Jeff turning the big Six-Oh. So we blew up a bunch of TiVo balloons and filled up Jeff’s cube with them. Well, actually, we cheated a bit. After blowing up a few balloons, we quickly realized that we wouldn’t have the stamina to [...]

Posted by Roger at 11:35 pm.

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Well, I guess the launch of the new TiVo HD isn’t a complete surprise since its impending release was first discovered a little over a week ago. Although the sleuth who uncovered the leak didn’t initially blog about it, others soon found out and word quickly spread. It didn’t take long before the leaked pics [...]

Posted by Roger at 12:14 am.

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Cool! We announced a partnership today with Amazon that will allow you to download movies and TV shows from Amazon’s Unbox service to your TiVo for viewing on your TV. This is one of the capabilities that I was most excited about when I joined TiVo, so it’s great to see it now finally becoming [...]

Posted by Roger at 4:58 pm.

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Video of Pro/E and Intralink running on Parallels. 15MB, 06:54. Quicktime 7 required. WARNING: may be mind-numbingly boring, especially if you’re not a Mac user who uses Pro/E!
As mentioned previously, installing Windows XP Pro on Boot Camp was pretty straightforward. Installing Pro/E and Intralink (the file library/management system that integrates with Pro/E) went largely without [...]

Posted by Roger at 3:16 pm.

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I’ve been longing to be able to run Pro/E (the 3D mechanical CAD software that I use for product design) on a Mac for many years, basically ever since I started using Pro/E. With Apple’s move to the Intel architecture, it’s subsequent public beta of Boot Camp (which runs Windows in a separate partition and [...]

Posted by Roger at 6:43 pm.

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A white version of the TiVo Glo remote is now available for sale on the TiVo store. Functionally, this remote is identical to the black TiVo Glo remote. The difference is purely cosmetic - instead of glossy black, the front and back housings are glossy white. In addition, the keys are a dark gray instead [...]

Posted by Roger at 1:32 pm.

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TiVo is now selling the Series3 remote as an accessory on the TiVo Store. Actually, we started selling it around Oct. 27, but I’ve been so busy that I haven’t been able to post about it until now. Hey, I’ve been preoccupied designing our next great products!
This remote is essentially the same remote [...]

Posted by Roger at 7:28 am.

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David Pogue of the NY Times created this short video espousing our new Series3 product. The video is unabashedly corny and cheesy, but that’s what makes it so humorous, especially when you consider that it comes from one of the most respected and widely read consumer electronics reviewers. We’re definitely not going to complain about [...]

Posted by Roger at 7:05 pm.

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Today, TiVo introduced the long-awaited Series3 HD Digital Media Recorder (DMR). This product is the culmination of a lot of hard work by the TiVo team, and I’m excited, not only in the product itself, but because it’s shipping with my baby - the substantially redesigned Series3 remote control which represents the fruits of my [...]

Posted by Roger at 9:27 pm.

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Site updates have been few and far between during these dog days of summer. Judy and I haven’t gone on any trips in a while, but we’ve stayed really busy. Judy sold her piano (Craigslist rocks!) because she just didn’t have the time to play it much and it was taking up a lot of [...]

Posted by Roger at 9:02 pm.

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This was actually posted on April 24 because I had to get further clarification on TiVo’s public posting policies.
From the Associated Press: “A federal jury awarded TiVo Inc. more than $73 million in damages Thursday in a patent infringement lawsuit against EchoStar Communications Inc.”
TiVo’s press release can be found here which states our intention to [...]

Posted by Roger at 8:34 pm.

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