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TiVo and BlackBerry working on DVR capability
With the aim to allow Blackberry customers to control and watch TiVo content anywhere, Tivo and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced a partnership to bring TiVo services to the BlackBerry. The first step in giving users the ability to watch TiVo on their Blackberry will be that smartphone users will gain the convenience of being able to see what shows are on and schedule television recordings while away. Ultimately, however, TiVo hopes to bring the entire experience to the BlackBerry platform including viewing TiVo content wirelessly from home and perhaps even using future, more advanced BlackBerry models as mobile DVRs.
“TiVo subscribers will soon be able to wirelessly control their TiVo DVRs using a BlackBerry smartphone – anytime, anywhere – and that is a powerful example of how our respective technologies can complement each other to serve our mutual customers,” said Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO of RIM. “As the BlackBerry smartphone continues its evolution as a modern lifestyle device, the importance of home entertainment integration will continue to grow and TiVo will be the key in providing consumers with greater flexibility in accessing television content.”
Wow. Can one imagine being able to watch what you miss on your BlackBerry while you’re out on the road taking care of business? That would be a killer app. And imagine if Apple made similar capability with the AppleTV? What a wonderful world that would be.
Hat Tip – Fox Business via Slash Gear
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Friday’s Gadget Gallery » Coolest Gadgets Says: September 12, 2008 at 1:43 am
[...] TIVO and BLACKBERRY WORKING ON DVR CAPABILITY [...]
Jean Says: June 12, 2009 at 10:20 pm
TIVO and a blackberry? Pretty soon we wont need tv anymore, we will be able to do everything from out phones…although, this may be a nad idea…Dude, seems like the Blackberry definately has some bugs to work out, but windows mobile is realible…we’ll see how they work it out, by the way i ran
accross this site the other day and the idea behind it was quite interesting. This website offers a service where you can have 2 phones lines and 2 voicemail feed into one phone.
Check it out…
We’ll see if Blackberry listens to thier clients’ complaints…
mbv Says: July 23, 2009 at 2:33 am
I remember back in the day there were some cable companies that were talking about opening up their DVRs to work with the Cable/Sprint partnership that now has been shutdown. I wish cable labs would make the cablecard work so I can use Tivo.
Kirk Says: September 11, 2008 at 2:31 pm
You can already watch your Tivo on your phone it’s called Slingbox, and yes it truly is wonderful