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DirecTV Throws TiVo A Lifeline

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2008-09-03 11:45:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
DirecTV (DTV) was once TiVo's (TIVO) most important business partner and greatest source of subscribers. That all ended in 2005 when DirecTV said it would stop marketing TiVo in favor of set-tops made by NDS, a unit of News Corp. (NWS) which then had a controling stake in the satellite TV company But now DirecTV is controlled by Liberty Media...
 
Tags: tivo, directv, definition directv dvrs, directv dvrs, million subscribers, subscribers, tivo shares, tivo service, tivo announces
 
 
 
 
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DIRECTV NFL Sunday Ticket Supercast protected by Adobe products

2008-09-09 13:04:00 by John Landwehr in Adobe Blogs
 
DIRECTV and Adobe announced that the NFL SUNDAY TICKET SUPERCAST is powered by Adobe's video solution with content protection DIRECTV is also providing SUPERCAST as a downloadable rich Internet application (RIA) built on Adobe AIR. Adobe AIR offers a new way to engage customers on the desktop with a downloadable, branded RIA that can be deployed...
 
Tags: adobe air, air, adobe, adobe air offers, directv, supercast, content, content protection, enable directv
 
 
 
 
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Sixteen Great Twitter Moments

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2008-10-31 18:05:40 by David Spark in Mashable!
...DirecTV to install your satellite in three days instead of three weeks Three weeks was the earliest Jessica Gottlieb ( @JessicaGottlieb ) could hope to get her new HD DirecTV dish installed. Her husband was not happy about missing that much of the football season. Hoping for a sooner install time, Jessica called backfour times. No dice. Three...
 
Tags: twitter moments, moments, discover twitter moments, twitter, twitter live birth, twitter friend, friend, twitter user, quickly scans twitter
 
 
 
 
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AIR, Flash and Football

2008-09-09 00:14:28 by Timothy Brook in Adobe Blogs
 
...DIRECTV is powering its next-generation NFL Sunday Ticket SUPERCAST service for SuperFan customers on the Web with Adobe Flash technology and Adobe AIR software. DIRECTTV customers can stream live NFL games, DIRECTVs Red Zone Channel and up-to-the-minute scores and statistics in the browser using the free Adobe Flash Player. In addition,...
 
Tags: adobe air software, adobe air, adobe, flash, adobe flash technology, technology, press release, applications, downloadable air application
 
 
 
 
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Verizon COO Strigl: No Big Land Grabs Planned After Alltel Deal (VZ)

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2008-06-10 17:50:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
...DirecTV (DTV) strategy? We don't spend a lot of time getting agitated over pricing wars. If you look at wireless business, it has always been the price leader, and we have always stressed the value. We are not the take-down market leader and we have no intentions to be. Think we have a superior product so we're careful on how we price the...
 
Tags: alltel, growth, fios growth, marketplace, enterprise marketplace, enterprise, forever strategy, strategy, adjust strategy
 
 
 
 
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Crazy Jericho Fans Pestering Innocent Cable Viewers With Senseless Ads

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2008-06-14 13:00:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
...DirecTV to keep "Friday Night Lights" on the air. Why couldn't CBS ink a deal with, say, the Sci Fi Channel Well, we suppose it could, and that might make sense if CBS owned a bunch of cable channels with relatively narrow audience bases. But it doesn't: It's a broadcast network, with an emphasis on broad So while the network won't come out...
 
Tags: fans, jericho, cable, online fans, online, cbs, cbs ink, save, time warner cable
 
 
 
 
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CBS's Moonves: Ad Market In Tank, But Cable Will Pay Us For Our Signal

2008-09-17 14:39:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...DirecTV, which could set a precedent for deals to come. The good news: no one has threatened to take down CBS's signal (yet On the digital front, Moonves reiterated his $650 million revenue 2008 revenue target for CBS Interactive Notes from Moonves' talk The always-optimistic Les Moonves takes the stage. We'll see what picture he paints of...
 
Tags: network tv, top network tv, network tv business, tv, moonves, cbs, network sales team, sales, cbs interactive properties
 
 
 
 
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The end of the cable set-top box? Yes, Comcast says

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2008-01-08 22:02:00 by Zoë Slocum in Webware.com
...DirecTV and Verizon Fios? The "era of closed cable" may be coming to an end, as Roberts said, but the wars between providers of television, broadband, and telephone services are far from over Indeed, the AnyPlay device is designed to play and record shows from any U.S. cable operator's system--but not those of satellite providers
 
Tags: cable, samsung electronics, cable provider, electronics, consumer electronics, cable operator, entire cable industry, consumer electronics association, tru2way marks
 
 
 
 
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Found on the Mobile Web 33

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2008-01-23 05:43:44 by Dennis in Wap Review
...directv.com/DTVAPP/mobile ) lets you remotely program your Direct TV Digital Video Recorder using a mobile web interface. I don't have Direct TV so I haven't tried it but Carlo at MobHappy has and reports success. I'm a little disappointed that you have to go www.directtv.com to register, using a mobile service shouldn't require a PC Weather...
 
Tags: web, web page, interface, mobile web interface, site, mobile weather site, mobile web, web version, mobile web app