TiVo Now Officially Downloads Shows from the Internet
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Loyal BBB readers may remember a little gem we posted back in August ‘05 about Tivo starting to roll out TV-downloads-from-the-Internet. It seems that today Tivo has the first true fruits of this endeavor:
TiVo will unveil Tuesday a deal that will enable about 400,000 subscribers who have their machines connected via broadband Internet access to use their TVs to watch Web videos delivered by Internet video and ad sales service Brightcove. Specific programs to be offered — possibly as early as June — have not been named, but Brightcove clients include Discovery Communications, MTV Networks, Reuters, The New York Times, National Lampoon, SmartMoney and Farmers’ Almanac TV.
While the details haven’t quite been worked out yet, the writing is indeed on the wall. Since the deal between the two is non-exclusive, we can see a future in which TV watchers can start downloading video podcast-like content from the ‘net without any kind of middleman at all.
Tivo: give us a call when we can add RSS feeds and we’ll talk. Until then, we will have to settle for hope.
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