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Tivo Demos Movie Upload & DownloadPVRBlog notes that a Tivo apparently uploading and downloading movies was demo'd at a Vegas Tivo meetup recently. A lot of speculation has been bouncing around about this being the much-speculated on Netflix interface, but several folks who attended say no. Just what was being demo'd in these pictures still isn't clear, however....


Download music. 83% of musicians can’t be wrong.The latest survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project indicates that 83% of artists have provided free samples of their work online, and many say that free downloading has helped them sell CDs and increased the crowds at their concerts (where the artists actually make a buck or two).  Only 5% say that it’s hurt them. As for their own careers, more of these artists say free music downloading online has helped them than hurt them. Fully 83% of those in the survey say they provide free samples or previews of their music online. And strong pluralities say free downloading has a payoff for them. For instance, 35% of them say free downloading has helped their careers and...


Lower Tivo FeesThere's a rumor going 'round that threatening to leave Tivo to go to your Cable provider's PVR gets you a prompt offer to cut your monthly Tivo fee in half. If you are a monthly TiVo subscriber, it appears that TiVo is desperate enough to keep you as a subscriber that they will lower your monthly bill by 50% if you threaten to leave due to wanting to switch to your cable providers DVR service. This will effectively drop your bill from $12 per month right down to $6. Of course there's always the chance they'll tell you not to let the door hit 'ya on the way out instead... (via PVRWire)...


Hidden Tivo FeaturesChances are, if you're reading this site and have a Tivo, you may already know most of these various tips, but if not, PCWorld has a nice "starter set" of tricks to squeeze a few more features out of your Tivo. Whether it's a simple trick, like turning your TiVo into a clock, or a serious hardware hack to increase the amount of storage space in the device, we're here with several tips, tricks, and pointers to more information, so you can get more out of your TiVo time. (via PVRBlog)...


Download Mangers Rock…I vaguely remember download managers, back in the bad old dial-up days.  At that point they were usually tools to resume downloads if your connection died before it all trickled in (a not too uncommon occurance).  I’ve ignored them since then. The other day I happened to run into Speed Download 2, a download manager for OS X.  For some reason, I looked at it long enough to figure out that it actually rocks for broadband users.  By opening up simultaneous connections, it downloads large files much faster than normal—right to the edge of the connection speed, if the pipeline in between can be driven that fast.  For a test, I downloaded an hour-long MP3 from the BBC site, and...