Here’s something for all of you DISH Network customers who currently own an Android tablet or are planning to get one of the many new tablets introduced at CES 2011. DISH Remote Access, the free app that lets you watch live and recorded TV on compatible smartphones are now optimized for newer, higher-pixel screens of more »

TiVo is really making a push to have a good holiday season — first by offering better deals at Best Buy and now they have made a mobile website allowing cell phone users to browse TV shows and even schedule recordings.

Let’s say you’re busy catching the train to come home from work and your favorite show is on, but no one is home to record it for you. All you would have to do is take out your phone, navigate to m.tivo.com and then schedule a recording for that show. This website works on any phone, on any network, from any carrier and you don’t even have to own a TiVo to use the site. If you just want to check out the latest TV shows, you can easily do so on your phone. Like all mobile websites, they are specifically designed to be viewed on a small screen, so the TiVo mobile site will probably look very nice and not be a strain on your eyes to read.

Keep reading for more details and the full press release.

The case of the missing NBC video on Windows Vista Media Center PC’s in DVR mode reminds me of Bill Murray’s classic line from “Ghostbusters.” When tempted by a demonically-possessed Sigourney Weaver, Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman says, “I make it a rule never to get involved with possessed people.”

After she nuzzles his neck, he sheepishly adds, “Actually it’s more of a guideline than a rule.”

CNET News reported that Vista PC’s won’t record certain NBC prime-time programming. (We’ll ignore the larger question for now as to why someone would actually want to record “American Gladiators.”) When its reporter questioned Microsoft, the software company released a statement saying that it is honoring broadcast flags – technology that disables attempts at recording – as set forth by Federal Communications Commission “rules.” But those “rules” have no force of law behind them. The networks wanted them a couple of years ago, but federal courts shot them down. Optional installation? Sure. But there’s nothing mandated by governmental agency or Congress.

Britain’s lollypop ladies, the equivalent of our school crossing guards here in the US, have just been issued cameras and portable DVRs to record incidents of “lollipop rage” or school zone road rage. The cameras record traffic from both sides and feed their footage to an Archos portable DVR. The system was developed by a more »