The same old TiVo with a bigger hard drive is an insult to loyal Australian TiVo users.  

TiVo’s Australian users will face a number of outages over the coming week as the Australian licensees perform a number of major maintenance works.

Hybrid Television Services, the creator of CASPA On-Demand and the exclusive licensee of TiVo products in Australia and New Zealand today announced that ispONE and Comcen have agreed to unmeter CASPA downloads to the TiVo media device.

Hybrid Television Services - the Australian distributor of the TiVo set top box and the creator of the CASPA service that delivers video on demand over the Internet to TiVos - has signed an agreement with DDD Group plc to offer DDD's 3D content via CASPA.

TiVo distributor, Hybrid TV, has added movies from three new distributors to the list of those available to TiVo users via its CASPA VoD offering.

Hybrid Television Services, the Seven subsidiary that distributes the TiVo in Australia, is gearing up to provide video on demand and interactive services.

The growth in Ethernet-connected home entertainment devices is bringing renewed attention to HomePlug AV, the technology that carries Ethernet signals over existing electrical wiring. Netgear's new Powerline 200 AV and AV+ adaptors bring some new wrinkles to the category.

TiVo distributor, Hybrid Television Services has appointed the Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) at the University of Melbourne as the research unit for its Hybrid SmartStreet Project that aims to facilitate greater awareness and understanding of the potential benefits of the NBN.

The Seven Network, through its TiVo distributor subsidiary, is hoping to transition the advertising-funded content model of free-to-air television into the online world through TiVo's new CASPA VoD service and the expected uptake of widget enabled televisions.

Partly Channel 7 owned Hybrid Television Services, licensee of TiVo for Australia and NZ, has announced an upgraded 320GB model from December 1, and a new selection of free and paid on-demand programming, along with ISPs that unmeter TiVo download content, to counter the Foxtel and piracy alternatives.