[IP] New Service by TiVo Will Build Bridges From Internet to the TV

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoffg@gmail.com>
Date: June 9, 2004 12:25:08 AM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: New Service by TiVo Will Build Bridges From Internet to the TV
Reply-To: geoff.goodfellow@iconia.com

New Service by TiVo Will Build Bridges From Internet to the TV
By JOHN MARKOFF
The New York Times

Published: June 9, 2004

The Internet, in jumping past the personal computer and into the
living room television set, is starting to give viewers the
possibility of bypassing traditional cable and satellite services.

TiVo, the maker of a popular digital video recorder, plans to announce
a new set of Internet-based services today that will further blur the
line between programming delivered over traditional cable and
satellite channels and content from the Internet. It is just one of a
growing group of large and small companies that are looking at
high-speed Internet to deliver video content to the living room.

The new TiVo technology, which will become a standard feature in its
video recorders, will allow users to download movies and music from
the Internet to the hard drive on their video recorder. Although the
current TiVo service allows users to watch broadcast, cable or
satellite programs at any time, the new technology will make it
possible for them to mix content from the Internet with those
programs.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/09/technology/09net.html

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