CBS has made two of its sitcoms available as free streaming downloads on a Yahoo Web site.
For this week only, “Two and a Half Men” and “How I Met Your Mother” — will each have two previously aired full-length episodes available on Yahoo television site/
No word yet on how to get these on your PVR, […]

PVRWire is running a story that that DirecTV is joining up with TiVo and Dish Network in the portable media market. Reportedly, at CES next month they’ll be announcing a partnership for providing content to portable devices. Developing…

OK, its nearly 2006 so we’ve decided to join the bandwagon of blogging tipsters and make some bold predictions for 2006.
1. TiVo will be purchased by someone else….but we don’t know who. Competition continues to grow and TiVo is going to struggle this year, and will be ripe for a takeover.
2. Vista MCE will be […]

The Register reports that Sony is going to unveil a 82inch LCD TV, now imagine that in your home system!
Technorati Tags: sony, lcd

Looks like DirecTV’s decision to go it alone isn’t working out so well. This from USA Today:
DirecTV appears to have hit some speed bumps with the rollout of its new digital video recorder — one of the company’s most important initiatives.
Following at least dozens of consumer complaints to the company and on Internet sites about […]

Extremetech takes an interesting look at Windows Media Center Online and reviews the various extras now available including Akimbo, Gallery Player and others.

SageTV has released the SageTV Media Extender, a $99.95 accessory for SageTV Media Center for Windows that provides a whole-house PVR, music and photo media center system
with no subscription fees. Now any TV connected to the SageTV Media Center through the home network with the SageTV Media Extender, or any networked PC running the […]

Just a quick note to say we’ve had a bit of a makeover here at PVR Spot, the third since we started blogging back in May but definitely our nicest template yet. If you like it or don’t like it let us know in the comments. We are ramping up for the new year with […]

CNet reports that a bill to be presented to the US Congress would outlaw the manufacture or sale of electronic devices that convert analog video signals into digital ones–unless those encoders honor an anticopying plan designed to curb redistribution. Affected devices would include PC-based tuners and digital video recorders.
More here.

Everyone’s favorite IR and PC automation software for Windows, Girder, that allows remotes to work with just about anything, has a new release, v 4.0.
New stuff includes:
* New user interface for fast and easy application development
* Fighly customizable OSD for user notification, status reports and menus
* Flexible task scheduling with conditional event triggering
* Extremely fast […]