TiVo rolls out Picasa, Photobucket integration

TiVo owners with Picasa or Photobucket accounts just got another way to view their photos on their TVs -- everyone's favorite DVR company announced deals with both services today that will allow users to access their photos from any TiVo device. Photos will be pulled down at the highest resolution your TiVo supports, so Series3 and TiVo HD owners will get HD-res images displayed, and what's more, users can also access friends' photo albums. The feature should be rolling out starting today -- between this and that Rhapsody partnership, it seems like TiVo is starting to get serious about branching into the still-dormant media streamer / extender market.

[Via TG Daily]

[Quentin @ Dec 3rd 2007 4:31PM]

Photobucket and Picasa? Yuck. Give me Flickr intergration and then we can talk.

[Z @ Dec 4th 2007 11:35PM]

No kidding. They missed the boat on that one.

[khamel @ Dec 3rd 2007 4:40PM]

hooray for picasa. im not on the flickr bandwagon so this is perfect for me.

[Mojo @ Dec 3rd 2007 4:45PM]

Seriously. I love Picasa. This ought to make sharing photos with the grandparents that much more fun.

[hintertux @ Dec 3rd 2007 4:53PM]

Tivo and Picassa the best of both worlds. Can't wait to try this when I go home tonight...

[Mark Richardson @ Dec 3rd 2007 4:54PM]

"that will allow users to access their photos from any Tivo device."
The article doesn't state that anywhere.

From the article, this will work "provided that their TiVo boxes are broadband-connected", which means you can't use it if you have a DirecTV Series 2 TiVo (Unless you've hacked it; in which case you still won't be able to access it.)

[Frankenstein Black @ Dec 3rd 2007 5:24PM]

You go Tivo, you tame and organize that internet content for the home big screens! Love ya, you pop’eyed bastage you ;^)...

PS can’t wait to be able to enter favorites (thumbs up, keywords, etc.) on items like, oh I don’t know, Brazilian bubble butts or Skyline GT-R’s and you go out across the inter webs (like a little agent) and retrieve the, um “goods” (videos, pics, etc) for viewing when I get home from work (you know cause some of us work and don’t have time to troll the web). That would be Sick Slick I tells ya, Sick Slick!

[robotrock @ Dec 3rd 2007 5:57PM]

How many 13 year old girls (photobucket's primary users) have a Tivo?

[RichC @ Dec 3rd 2007 9:58PM]

Nice.
http://blog.myarchive.us/?p=1029

[KC @ Dec 4th 2007 4:33AM]

What? No loving for S1 and S2 Tivo owners?

[Watts @ Jan 2nd 2008 3:16PM]

Tivo used to work with Yahoo photos.
Then Yahoo bought Flickr.
Then Tivo, instead of going with Yahoo's Flickr, goes with Google's Picasa.
Between this and Sony ImageStation merging into Shutterfly.... a photo-sharer's nightmare.
I wish Tivo and Flickr worked together, is that asking too much?