TiVo and Yahoo! bring some new functionality to your DVR

by Paul Miller, posted Nov 29th 2005 at 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.

Filed under: Home Entertainment

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Neutral

me @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM

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

Neutral

mckenzie @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM

its too bad DirecTV is lightyears behind in this kind of stuff.

Neutral

jimmie geddes @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM

It's also using "wordsmith" a Palm OS word processor application. It looks like TiVo has a lot more going on.

Neutral

Gordy @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM

Man, I hope that Think Secret article is true. Drool...

Neutral

Scoobydoo @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM

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...

Neutral