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More share-raising rumours:
Shares in TiVo continued to climb today (Friday) to $5.10 at midday on word that Netflix, the online film renter, is considering offering to allow TiVo users to rent movies by downloading them directly onto the personal digital recorders. At a technology symposium in Phoenix, Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy said that the company, which previously had announced plans to offer a movie download service sometime this year, said that it was looking for the best system to provide a compelling service to consumers. "TiVo," he said, "may be one of those systems." Shares of Netflix also rose nearly 5 percent in midday trading to $11.00.
Strange -- I heard that rumour a couple of weeks(?) ago. But I guess, y'know, having it said by the Netflix CFO gives it a bit more weight.
My iPod had been dead since running the iPod 2.3 update (aka 2-22-05) despite wiping the iPod clean and reinstalling its system software. I plug it in and it and iTunes just locks up.
Looking at the Mac support site I see that quite a lot of people have had major problems with their iPod since running this update. I recommend not running the update for the time being, or else studying things at the Mac support site first.
Tivo users, I have an odd problem. I got the cable hooked up in my new apartment today, and everything's working fine except that the Tivo doesn't seem to be able to see upcoming episodes. I've already restarted and manually connected once, and am doing it again now. Any suggestions, though? (My next stop is the Tivo community forums.)
tommy, i know you didn't ask for help on this, but does your iPod still work with an older version of the software? I'm mainly curious because I had a previous problem a few months ago.
(Crap! Repeating Guided Setup means missing Battlestar Galactica. This had better work...)
tommy, i know you didn't ask for help on this, but does your iPod still work with an older version of the software? I'm mainly curious because I had a previous problem a few months ago.
My current plan is to reinstal the previous update (2004-11-15) bu so far I've failed to get that version of the update software to work.
Repeating Guided Setup means missing Battlestar Galactica. This had better work...
They reshow BG later tonight.
They reshow BG later tonight.
Yeah, and I'm also downloading it in another window. But I want to watch it now.
