New TiVo service downloads movies & TV from the Internet

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[Now if they could just add peer to peer file sharing for the transfer of
videos and movies it would be the prefect product. From Dave Farber's Iper
list --BSA]


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From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow 

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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