Recently ZDNet's Ed Burnette lost a TiVo in a lightning storm. When that happened he decided to give Time Warner's Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8340HDC DVR a try rather than having his old TiVo, which had lifetime but was not HD, repaired. Ed thought he'd try this because, as he puts it: The Time Warner DVR box model was free, and the service cost ( Read more... )

Denise Howell has a nice write-up of a copyright discussion at the recent Tech Policy Summit over at ZDNet. The discussion panel included Patrick Ross (Executive Director, Copyright Alliance), Fred von Lohmann (Senior Staff Attorney, EFF), Matt Zinn (VP and general counsel, TiVo), and moderator Doug Lichtman of UCLA Law School. The discussion ( Read more... )