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TiVo Will Stream Content From The Web

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 8, 2004 @11:49PM from the because-not-enough-content-was-under-the-rug dept.

Patik writes "According to an article at the NY Times, 'new TiVo technology... will allow users to download movies and music from the Internet to the hard drive on their video recorder.' This is TiVo's next big push for subscribers after being dumped by DirecTV Tuesday. Blockbuster, Netflix, and Real are also looking into distributing feature-length movies over the web."

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Re:I can do all this now by barcodez · 2004-06-09 00:03 · Score: 0, Troll

MILLIONS of paying subscribers aren't even aware that you COULD do this kind of thing. I see they are contributing marketing to the consumer benefit. Informing people of what they really want. MILLIONS of paying subscribers can't, without the help of friendly set-top boxes. Chances are if they can operate any of the number applications that will allow them to do this now they aren't going to be interested in an expensive set top box and subscription to do it either.

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