TiVo and Yahoo! bring some new functionality to your DVR
posted Nov 29th 2005 5:00AM
Fan fave TiVo is trying its darnedest to differentiate itself from the ravenous DVR competition, this time by rolling out a beta for some web based services powered by Yahoo! including weather, traffic, and photos, along with Live365 net radio, podcast downloads, and Fandango movie tickets. Yahoo! and TiVo announced this functionality earlier this month when they busted out scheduling capability with your Yahoo! account. We have to say that these offerings feel a tad late and a tad short in scope, but maybe the prospect of streaming a few show tunes off of Live365 — on a Yahoo! verified sunny day, of course — will be that one little value add to keep Joe consumer from migrating over to the cheaper generic offerings. Dave Zatz got some pics of the beta functionality, and says that beta testing should go into early next year.
Looks like an Apple - Tivo war heating up...check out the following article on www.thinksecret.com: "Road to Expo: Reborn Mac mini set to take over the living room" at http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0511macmini2.html
its too bad DirecTV is lightyears behind in this kind of stuff.
It's also using "wordsmith" a Palm OS word processor application. It looks like TiVo has a lot more going on.
Man, I hope that Think Secret article is true. Drool...
Unless Apple can ship a Mac mini based "tivo killer" for the same $49 Tivo charges for a box, it will never take off. Of course, the macboi fans will order one, but the general public wants cheap kit. They don't want a full blown PC in the living room, and even if they did, they would not pay anything over $100 for it...
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Yeah, how wonderful...more features we DirecTiVo users will never get.
Why not Launch radio and video? Maybe some Yahoo games?
If/when Apple produces a PVR, let's all say bye bye to my TiVo.