Rim Partners TiVo To Provide Rich Blackberry Entertainment

TiVo the leader in DVR television services and RIM (Research in Motion) the leader in wireless innovation announced a partnership to bring TiVo services to the BlackBerry. In this new marriage of sorts TiVo and RIM will work together to develop a number of mobile entertainment services that use consumer viewable content from TiVo.

Now users of the popular BlackBerry phone will be able to know what shows are on at a particular time and schedule television recordings away from the television set, in the boardroom on the road, anywhere. In the future the simplification of mobile access to television content is also likely.
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TiVo StopWatch Results Announced.

TiVo, the DVR company is out with news. The Top Commercial and Program Rankings for July 2008 are out. This is as per the viewing of TiVo subscribers. Many cable networks which include Lifetime and TNT were able to give us the Timeshifted and Total resuts for the Top 10 commercial and program lists. It seems So You Think You Can Dance – July 16 episode was the most watched program for both Timeshifted viewers and Total viewers. Read more

TiVo Plus Blackberry

In the mobile phone market, TiVo branded video streaming apps that are made for mobile phones are absent. Nothing has happened on this front as yet. However, a partnership between TiVo and Backberry has been announced. This announcement was made at CTIA, San Francisco on Thursday. Perhaps Slingbox people should be concerned.

 

The joint announcement by TiVo and Blackberry was only an announcement. It was nothing more. Streaming video hasn’t been mentioned and TiVo apps tailored for the Blackberry have not been released either. Read more

A Whopping 150 HDTV Hours on The New TiVO!

TiVo fanatics have a reason to celebrate. A new high end model has been introduced which will record 150 HDTV hours. The price is $600. With a built in 1 terabyte hard drive, there is a lot of room to store your recorded programs and movies. Other than the gargantuan capacity, the HD XL is very similar to the TiVo HD. The cost of the TiVo HD is only about half of this new model.

 

With the new model comes a THX certification for high end audio as well as a premium backlit remote control. The USP remains the added capacity, however. If you want to go cheaper, though you can add a $150 external hard drive to the TiVo HD. You will have more wires though. The backlit remote is available for $50.

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