Via an FCC filing, we learn more of TiVo’s intentions to further leverage hardware beyond their own set-top boxes:
Consumers today can purchase retail TiVo DVRs and ancillary devices that support iOS and Android products, as well as TVs (using the TiVo Mini), and that soon will support additional ancillary devices that are popular with consumers.
Back at CES TiVo displayed Roku renders while late Spring they demo-ed the TiVo experience on Amazon Fire TV… which were presented as “hypotheticals” for their cable company partners. Yet, given this new filing and impending MPEG4 transition, we’d say things are looking pretty bright for TiVo Roamio and Premiere owners.
(Thanks Sam!)
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This is a good move for Tivo. They are keeping themselves relevant by intergrating their product with the newest and latest generation of OTT devices, which are better established in the OTT world, while they handle the all-important dvr recordings, which they excel at. I'm realliy looking forward to streaming my dvr recordings to my OTT streamer. Even if they charge a fee for it.
Of course, in TiVo vernacular, "soon" is usually something like 12-18 months out... ;)
I am a Prophet. I see through space and time. The future is clear to me. Listen well, ye mortals! I hereby prognosticate a comment from an unrelated story on ZNF. My Third Eye declares the date to be February 2016. It goes as follows.
"Hey, whatever happened to tivo supporting roku and androidtv and whatnot? I vaguely remember them saying they were gonna do that in 2014?"