Category: Home Theater

Reading Time: < 1 minute CNET News.com reported that TiVo said its annual revenue was up 85 percent for the fiscal year ending December 31. More importantly, TiVo signed up 330,000 new customers in the fourth quarter, about three times the number of subscribers it signed up in the holiday period in 2002. Over 1…

Reading Time: < 1 minute CNET just published an informative review of the Sony VPL-HS20, an HDTV-capable, LCD television projector. A lot of A/V freaks prefer projectors to rear-projection sets because the projectors themselves are a lot smaller and can be installed in a number of different ways. The key to making something like the…

Reading Time: < 1 minute PVRblog reported that TiVo is soliciting customer opinions before completing the feature set of the TiVoToGo system that was previewed at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. The PVRblog article contains a pointer to the survey, which I urge all TiVo users to complete. But, the article also has some…

Reading Time: < 1 minute CNET News.com reported on a new trend in consumer electronics: selling flat panel TVs with classic American brand names. Good examples of this trend are the Westinghouse W33001 30″ Widescreen LCD HD-Ready TV which also comes in 27-inch, 20-inch, and 15-inch versions. People who read business magazines are probably aware…

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Washington Post published an article last Friday called With DVD, TV Viewers Can Channel Their Choices that talks about the group of TV fans who don’t bother to subscribe to TiVo, cable, or satellite TV. This group buys or rents DVD collections of popular TV series such as Law…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Last week, I cheered the inclusion of TiVo stats in USA Today TV ratings reports. But, after watching The Super Bowl, I wonder if this is a good idea after all. Everyone I know who has a TiVo recorded the Super Bowl yesterday. TiVo gets a lot of publicity from…

Reading Time: 2 minutes PVRblog pointed out that USA Today is publishing a list of the most-recorded TV programs by a group of 20,000 arbitrarily-chosen TiVo users. The data is being provided by TiVo through the long-standing program where they collect anonymized PVR use data from subscribers. This is a coup for TiVo in that…

Reading Time: < 1 minute On Thursday, Walter Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal took a look at the Sound Blaster Wireless Music System from Creative Technology. He liked it because its large remote-control unit provides a display and a full set of controls. This means that Sound Blaster does not need to be connected…