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TiVo to compliment partnership with Yahoo with place-shifting?

Posted by The Technocrat | Filed under Geeky

A lot of guessing has been done on what TiVo’s big announcement will be tomorrow, but on a completely unrelated note, I finally got an update yesterday that I’m very excited to share here! (While listening to an IT Conversations Podcast on my TiVo)

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TiVo’s new main menu choice

…and once you click on that choice…

I can’t stand Yahoo’s way of doing ‘application sprawl’, so someone else can review those features, but it’s pretty easy to figure out what they do…

The ‘Browse and Buy Movie Tickets’ allows you to buy tickets to local theaters via Fandango by entering in your zip code.

‘Live365′ is a port to TiVo of live365.com

‘Podcaster’ offers a few podcasts for each of the categories listed…

for example, the ‘technology’ category contains…

but also gives you the option to enter your own feed!

I entered the feed for IT Conversations…

Nice. The podcast immediately starts, and sounds great! You can navigate around and look for other podcasts while you’re playing, but the audio stops if you leave the ‘Podcaster’ menu (like to go buy tickets or something)

(Oh, and there are some games on there too…but they remind me of cell phone games, except more pointless, since you have to use a TiVo remote to play them, instead of a keypad. (or preferably a game controller)

TiVo’s built themselves a nice little API for TiVo-web applications. My prediction for tomorrow?

The next TiVo will use wireless to transmit content to little mini-TiVo boxes for other TV’s, or standalone XM-SatRadio type appliances. Also hopefully will come with wireless keyboard support…typing in a long URL is painful. At one point, the TiVo froze for about 2 minutes…when the entry box needed to start scrolling from the URL.

I love the new update, now let me place-shift with some addon devices, TiVo!

Comments (0) | March 1st, 2006