TiVo subscribers want mobile upgrade sooner
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Some say digital video recorder company's upgrade to free mobile TiVoToGo service is too slow in coming.
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TiVo Inc., maker of digital  television recorders, on Monday posted a wider quarterly net  loss, as it boosted spending to achieve a sharp increase in new  subscribers to its fee-based TV service.
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Every year at CES time, we revisit the topic of when or whether the US will finally catch up with the rest of the world in mobile wireless broadband. Why do we keep butting up against the same roadblocks year after year?
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NEW YORK  - TiVo aims to make life easy for its digital video recorder customers. But its journey to this potentially pivotal week was extraordinarily difficult.
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One reason that mobile users don&#39;t access more content from a mobile phone, like video clips, is because finding content is cumbersome -- but that should change in the future with intelligent network services, said one expert speaking on a panel at the Consumer Electronics Show.Currently, smartphone users may not be accessing as much content or online services as they&#39;d like because it&#39;s difficult to do so. &quot;If to discover content you have to type in a URL, it&#39;s never going to happen,&quot; said Muzibul Khan, vice president of product management and engineering at Samsung Telecommunications America.He suggests that using voice commands is the best way to look for content from a mobile phone. &quot;Voice is the most natural medium,&quot; he said.But Intrinsyc&#39;s CEO thinks that even voice command technology is rooted in the past. &quot;We&#39;re talking about a paradigm for Web searching that was built for the PC,&quot; said Glenda Dorchak, who is also chairman of Intrinsyc.While there may be a transitional period in the near future when voice or other improved search techniques are used for content discovery on mobile handsets, ultimately a more intelligent system will prevail, she said. In the future, a context-aware, server-driven system will emerge, where the network will forward relevant and useful content to users. The type of content that users will get will depend on their location and other preferences that they&#39;ve set.Key to that vision will be multiple radios in mobile devices working together. She imagines a time when a phone might have Wi-Fi, GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), GPS (Global Positioning System), Bluetooth, satellite and WiMax, each finding and delivering information to end-users, possibly simultaneously. The phones will be smart enough to pick the most appropriate network for delivering the content, she said.But running that many radios in a single device consumes power and requires sophisticated algorithms, so she suggests a few years will pass before it happens. However, the technology already exists to support part of that vision, such as converged cellular and Wi-Fi offerings that roam between the networks without dropping voice calls.In the meantime, operators and content providers are working to figure out exactly how to deliver video to users now. The Tivo generation wants to be able to choose what they want to watch and when, said Jeff Finkelstein, multimedia product manager for Palm. &quot;They don&#39;t want to wait for the headline news to start on the hour,&quot; he said.However, companies building mobile broadcast TV networks around the world like DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting-Handheld) would likely disagree.Easier sharing capabilities could boost mobile video use too. For about the past year and a half, statistics about how much video people watch online from their PCs haven&#39;t changed much, said Frank Barbieri, CEO of Transpera, a company that provides technology behind mobile video services. &quot;Maybe in five years the phone could surpass the Web in terms of video snacking,&quot; he said.
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By Bill Husted, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Sep. 3--QUESTION: My brother-in-law tells me his son's TiVo will pop up  the caller and telephone number on the TV screen when the phone rings. Hey, I  like that.
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Blog: Microsoft made some enhancements to its IPTV software that phone companies are using to offer TV, but the new release still doesn't offer multiroom DVR functionality.
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Theater-quality entertainment systems are coming to the car. Is rush hour ready for wireless file swapping?
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As a family, our TV viewing is fractured, sporadic and free of network scheduling. We are Generation TiVo, a subspecies that doesn't sit through commercials. And we've been waiting it seems like forever for a TiVo service that has finally arrived. Called TiVoToGo, it unfetters your video recordings from the hard drive-based box that pioneered television time-shifting.
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What draws workers to MobiTV? A hot technology, a cool company and maybe even a big payoff
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TiVo Inc. said on Monday it expects  its relationship with DirecTV Group Inc. to improve after the  satellite television provider is taken over by John Malone&#39;s  Liberty Media Corp..
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In case music, games, and video weren't enough, vendors are now vying for the opportunity to send digital television signals to your mobile phones.
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TiVo Inc.  introduced a  trimmed-down, less expensive version of its digital video  recorder for high-definition televisions on Tuesday, hoping to  spur mainstream demand 10 months after a pricey first foray was  received coolly.
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Cingular Wireless, the nation&#39;s largest cellphone service provider, announced plans yesterday to upgrade its high-speed data network, allowing faster downloads than are now available on many home broadband connections.
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TiVo pushed a major update to a small segment of its installed Series3 base on Monday, bringing many popular new features of the Series2 console to the next-generation set-top box for the first time.
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InfoWorld - Big names are coming to mobile video after a slow start for a service that has been touted as a perfect use for fast 3G (third-generation) networks.
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TiVo may have cut its losses this quarter, but the holiday season will put it more in the red. Plus, investors are becoming increasingly worried about growth - TiVo only added 16,000 subscribers this quarter.