New York (AP) — TiVo Inc. announced a new line of digital video recorders Tuesday to give television viewers more control over what they watch on traditional channels and over the Internet.
The fifth-generation DVRs from the company that pioneered the devices come as consumers have a growing number of choices for finding and watching TV shows and movies.
TiVo's devices face more competition than they did when they were first introduced in 1999. Cable and satellite TV companies are improving their own DVR offerings, while stand-alone devices such as Roku, Apple TV and Google's Chromecast seek to simplify Internet streaming on big-screen TVs. Meanwhile, game consoles and smartphones now come with apps to do much of what TiVo does. An Internet startup called Aereo offers an Internet-based DVR for broadcast channels.
With its new Roamio DVR, TiVo is counting on the notion that avid television viewers prefer one device to do it all.
The fifth-generation DVRs from the company that pioneered the devices come as consumers have a growing number of choices for finding and watching TV shows and movies.
TiVo's devices face more competition than they did when they were first introduced in 1999. Cable and satellite TV companies are improving their own DVR offerings, while stand-alone devices such as Roku, Apple TV and Google's Chromecast seek to simplify Internet streaming on big-screen TVs. Meanwhile, game consoles and smartphones now come with apps to do much of what TiVo does. An Internet startup called Aereo offers an Internet-based DVR for broadcast channels.
With its new Roamio DVR, TiVo is counting on the notion that avid television viewers prefer one device to do it all.
- 8/20/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
It's not often that we hear about a companion film to a band's Ep, but once we saw the names of the talent involved in Unholy Manipulator, the companion film to the debut Ep from Product of Hate, we knew we had to share it with our readers. Read on, and you'll see what we mean.
Unholy Manipulator stars Ashley Laurence (Hellraiser, Lighting Bug), Tim Lovelace (Mosquito, Bunyan), and Product of Hate, comprised of Adam Gilley- Vocals, Cody Rathbone- Guitar, Gene Rathbone- Lead Guitar, Mark Campbell- Bass, and Mike McGuire- Drums. Look for the full 11-minute short film and a making-of video coming soon.
About the Film:
Are you a product of hate? What defines reality?
These are the questions raised in Unholy Manipulator, the companion film to the debut Ep from Product of Hate. Ashley Laurence stars as herself - appearing as the ass-kicking star of a...
Unholy Manipulator stars Ashley Laurence (Hellraiser, Lighting Bug), Tim Lovelace (Mosquito, Bunyan), and Product of Hate, comprised of Adam Gilley- Vocals, Cody Rathbone- Guitar, Gene Rathbone- Lead Guitar, Mark Campbell- Bass, and Mike McGuire- Drums. Look for the full 11-minute short film and a making-of video coming soon.
About the Film:
Are you a product of hate? What defines reality?
These are the questions raised in Unholy Manipulator, the companion film to the debut Ep from Product of Hate. Ashley Laurence stars as herself - appearing as the ass-kicking star of a...
- 10/26/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
New York -- To kick off fall TV premiere week, CBS has teamed with Yahoo to maximize online buzz for its new and returning shows in what is Yahoo's largest single initiative to-date for any entertainment marketer and the largest premiere week online campaign to-date from CBS.
CBS will virtually "own" Yahoo this week, surrounding online and mobile users across the Yahoo network, including its home page, email service, mobile front page and Yahoo Messenger with CBS marketing messages, a Yahoo spokesman said Monday. Offline, the campaign will extend to Yahoo's Times Square billboard.
Earlier this year, NBC struck a similar deal with Microsoft's MSN to focus more of its digital ad spend tied to the fall TV season on one big digital player.
The CBS-Yahoo partnership is not exclusive. It is expected to generate more than 800 million impressions among adults 25 to 54, according to company estimates. Financial details weren't disclosed.
CBS will virtually "own" Yahoo this week, surrounding online and mobile users across the Yahoo network, including its home page, email service, mobile front page and Yahoo Messenger with CBS marketing messages, a Yahoo spokesman said Monday. Offline, the campaign will extend to Yahoo's Times Square billboard.
Earlier this year, NBC struck a similar deal with Microsoft's MSN to focus more of its digital ad spend tied to the fall TV season on one big digital player.
The CBS-Yahoo partnership is not exclusive. It is expected to generate more than 800 million impressions among adults 25 to 54, according to company estimates. Financial details weren't disclosed.
- 9/20/2010
- by By Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rise and Shine Shinedown -- from left, Zach Myers, Eric Bass, Brent Smith, and Barry Kerch -- has thrived under a Wmg 360 deal. | Photograph by Jim Wright
Smile for Me: Lyor Cohen, in his Manhattan town house, is turning Wmg's frown upside down. | Photograph by Nino Munoz
Up-and-coming bands like Shinedown are helping Warner Music Group pull off the hardest trick in the music biz: redefining the record label for the digital age.
On a chilly night in Manhattan, Julie Greenwald is steamed. "I hate free! Why should people get music for free?" says the 40-year-old spitfire COO of Atlantic Records, one of two major labels of Warner Music Group, and the first big label with more U.S. music revenue from digital downloads than physical discs. She's in the VIP room backstage at the Nokia Theatre, where Atlantic rock act Shinedown headlines a sold-out show. "Music isn't free!" she says.
Smile for Me: Lyor Cohen, in his Manhattan town house, is turning Wmg's frown upside down. | Photograph by Nino Munoz
Up-and-coming bands like Shinedown are helping Warner Music Group pull off the hardest trick in the music biz: redefining the record label for the digital age.
On a chilly night in Manhattan, Julie Greenwald is steamed. "I hate free! Why should people get music for free?" says the 40-year-old spitfire COO of Atlantic Records, one of two major labels of Warner Music Group, and the first big label with more U.S. music revenue from digital downloads than physical discs. She's in the VIP room backstage at the Nokia Theatre, where Atlantic rock act Shinedown headlines a sold-out show. "Music isn't free!" she says.
- 7/26/2010
- by Michael Fitzgerald
- Fast Company
Apple and NBC Universal have ended a yearlong disagreement over pricing that had been keeping NBC TV shows off the iTunes Store.
The new arranement between NBC and iTunes introduces modest elements of tiered pricing that is expected to spur copycat deals.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the occasion of the company's "Let's Rock" event in San Francisco to announce that, beginning immediately, NBC shows including "Heroes" and "The Office" are available via iTunes for $1.99 per episode or $2.99 for HD versions.
Library titles will sell for 99 cents, and NBC will have the ability to group shows -- like Tina Fey's six favorite episodes of "30 Rock," for example -- at prices yet to be determined.
In September, NBC was the top seller of video content on iTunes, but the network pulled its shows off the service when Apple refused to let NBC fiddle with pricing.
Apple claimed then that NBC...
The new arranement between NBC and iTunes introduces modest elements of tiered pricing that is expected to spur copycat deals.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the occasion of the company's "Let's Rock" event in San Francisco to announce that, beginning immediately, NBC shows including "Heroes" and "The Office" are available via iTunes for $1.99 per episode or $2.99 for HD versions.
Library titles will sell for 99 cents, and NBC will have the ability to group shows -- like Tina Fey's six favorite episodes of "30 Rock," for example -- at prices yet to be determined.
In September, NBC was the top seller of video content on iTunes, but the network pulled its shows off the service when Apple refused to let NBC fiddle with pricing.
Apple claimed then that NBC...
- 9/9/2008
- by By Paul Bond
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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