TiVo users getting YouTubed
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Mar 12th 2008 9:09AM
posted Mar 12th 2008 9:09AM
PRESS RELEASE: TiVo to Provide YouTube Videos Directly to the Television
ALVISO, Calif., March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced an agreement with YouTube(TM) that will offer access to YouTube videos directly from the TV via a TiVo DVR. The service will be available later this year to broadband-connected subscribers with TiVo Series3(TM) DVRs, including the new TiVo HD.
Every day hundreds of millions of videos are viewed on YouTube and hundreds of thousands of videos are uploaded. Upon launch of the TiVo-YouTube service, TiVo users will be able to search, browse and watch these videos directly on their television sets through their broadband connected TiVo DVRs. The combination of having the YouTube experience with the convenience and familiarity of TiVo's intuitive user interface will provide TiVo subscribers with the ability to discover and enjoy the most shared and most discussed web videos in the world on their televisions. Importantly, users will be able to log into their YouTube accounts directly from their TiVo boxes and access their favorite YouTube channels and playlists.
"We're delighted to be working with the world's leading online video community so that TiVo subscribers can access YouTube's popular content on the TV via the TiVo DVR," said Tara Maitra, Vice President and GM of Content Services at TiVo Inc. "Being able to make available YouTube videos to the TiVo subscriber base using one device, one remote and one user interface is another major step in our commitment to combine all of your television and web video viewing options in one easy to use service."
wow,...i uh,... do this already on my blu-ray player,
it's called a playstation 3.
but i'm sure that's another great checkmark to put up for tivo users. do these things use cable cards with true2way, and can they replace my pos time warner scientific atlanta cable box? if so i would honestly consider one.
No, they don't do Tru2Way yet. The Series 3 and TiVo HD use CableCards so you can throw out your cable box if you don't want PPV or VOD with the cable company.
what does playing any random youtube video from your tivo have to do with photoshop?
likely he's referring to the humorous series of videos on youtube "you suck at photoshop"
I already do this on my AppleTV. And the interface is super easy and intuitive.
The Media Player and Downloadable content features of my TivoHD always seem *sluggish*...I suppose because it's still busy buffering 2 channel streams in the background all the time.