As previously reported, TiVo is beefing up their HME offerings by centrally hosting applications and partnering with Yahoo! Yahoo! weather, traffic, and photos are available by entering your account info on the TiVo box. Also being previewed are Internet radio (Live365), the podcaster application I saw at Digital Life, Fandango movie tickets, and some various games. Beta testing is scheduled to continue into early 2006.
TiVo’s really starting to hit their stride in adding value over the typical cable-co DVR. Once they bundle these features with the upcoming dual HD tuner CableCARD model, they’ll really have something worth drooling over.
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This is nice but every Digital Media Adapter (DMA) such as the Link Theater and DSM 320 have had this type of content for a while. Even home brews lke a modded XBox with XBMC have this (and more).
Why can't someone create a product that merges the best of both of these products. The DMAs can play practially any media over the network (via SMB or UPnP AV), and PVRs provide a EPG, record and time shift.
This looks nice! I hope something similar can be done with google gmail
Finally, something more polished for HME apps!