It’s the fuuuuture….
Hi everybody, Double-oh Steven here. It’s time again for everybody’s favorite feature on Kiosk.net, something I like to call This Week in DVR. So let’s just flip on our patented Media Box and see what comes up, shall we…?
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Portents of the future!
From a most unlikely source: TiVo’s privacy policy? That’s right, TiVo has hinted at certain future offerings in it’s user privacy policy, particularly pertaining to the access of new content through your TiVo box. The DVR company notified their customers of the update through a mass email earlier this month.
“The updates (to the privacy policy) pertain primarily to the addition of new functionality that will enable TiVo subscribers to download content to their series 2 DVR.”
The company is not announcing any partnerships just now, but the policy update reflects that in the near future TiVo boxes will do a lot more. According to ZDNet…
“Subscribers who connect their TiVo Series 2 box to their home network should expect some ridiculously cool things to come down the pipeline this fall,” the newsletter said. Among those features are the ability to stream digital music from a computer to a home entertainment system, play games, podcast and schedule programming via TiVo’s Web site.
That’s all cool, but the buzz on everyone’s brain is Netflix. Will TiVo be teaming up with the DVD rental giant to offer movie content on demand via a DVR box connection? Official statements have been elusive at best, but according to Murray Arenson, a senior analyst at Ferris Baker Watts, such claims are “going in the right direction.”
I read about this on ZDNet, and so should you.