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TiVo Ready To Push YouTube Videos To TV Sets
Date : 17 Jul 2008 Category : Technology
NewsFactor NetworkBroadband subscribers with TiVo Series3 and TiVo HD DVRs will have access to the YouTube video universe. Viewers will be able to search by keyword or browse for content under categories such as featured, most recent, favorites or most viewed today.
"With YouTube content now available on TiVo on top of all the movies, music videos, songs and TV shows that are simply unavailable on cable and satellite, TiVo subscribers have more choice on their TV sets than any other TV viewers in the world," said TiVo CEO Tom Rogers.
Extended Availability
YouTube will arrive on TV sets just in time for the technology to play a role in this year's national, state and local elections. Earlier this month, both the Democratic and Republican national convention committees gave voters a chance to win a day on the campaign trail, and possibly a trip to the conventions, by creating videos that reveal which political party they support and why.
YouTube's RNCC and DNCC convention channels already host content from past conventions such as Ronald Reagan's speech at the 1964 Republican convention and Barack Obama's address at the 2004 Democratic convention. YouTube's deal with TiVo should push this year's envelope even further.
Following in the tracks of YouTube's trailblazing participation in this year's presidential primary debates, TiVo's technology should make it even easier for the candidates and political parties to interact with voters. According to TiVo, more than 3.7 million subscribers nationwide were using TiVo DVRs at the end of April.
"The partnership with TiVo extends our ability to...