The application also gives consumers access to niche interest and hobbyist videos covering areas far more specialized than cable and satellite channels.

Starting today, TiVo users can subscribe to and watch a broad range of video content available through Real Simple Syndication ('RSS') feeds, including everything from network nightly newscasts and The Sesame Street Podcast to Daily Headlines from MTV News and College Humor from CHTV. The simple application, which uses the popular Season Pass™ functionality, continues to deliver on TiVo's pledge to offer consumers an easy way to search, discover and enjoy the broad range of entertainment no matter what the source.

Through an updated version of TiVo's Desktop Plus PC software, users can now discover and enjoy a broad range of Web entertainment available directly from their TV. – Ma- TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced TiVo® subscribers can now watch video content from the Web directly on their television sets. TiVo Gives Consumers an Easy Way to Download Internet Video Automatically to Their Television Setsįirst announced at CES, Season Pass™ functionality applied to web video now availableĪLVISO, Calif. As of today, TiVo users can grab hold of the latest version of Desktop (Windows only, we're afraid) and 'enjoy a broad range of web entertainment available directly from their TV.' More specifically, these customers 'can choose web videos downloaded on the home PC using web browsers, RSS video clients such as iTunes podcasts, or other video download software to automatically copy to their TiVo DVR's Now Playing List alongside recorded broadcast and cable TV shows.' In case you couldn't tell, Desktop Plus 2.6 can be downloaded today for a one-time fee of $24.95, but consider that waived if you're upgrading from an earlier version. Truth be told, there's not a whole lot here that you didn't already get a taste of in our hands-on at CES, but here's the skinny. Well, what do you know? TiVo's delivering as promised with this one, as Desktop Plus 2.6 is indeed going live in March - just like we were told back in January (and nary a week after TiVo promised YouTube access later this year).

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