TiVo mobile video service now on Microsoft devices

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[ PVR Spot: PVR news, DIY PVR, reviews, tivo, replay tv and more] TiVo has annonuced that it’s extending its TiVoToGo portable video service to pocket computers and mobile phones running Microsoft software. Reteurs reports that TiVo said TiVoToGo is now available on Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Centers, as well as certain Windows Mobile-based Smartphones and PocketPCs handheld computers...

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[Ring-T.INFO - Your mobile news] TiVo mobile video service now on Microsoft devices (Reuters): Reuters - TiVo Inc. on Wednesday said it extended its TiVoToGo portable video service to pocket computers and mobile phones running Microsoft software, as the television recording company beefed up its offerings in an effort to differentiate from its rivals. TiVo mobile video service now

[picturephoning.com] TiVo mobile video service now on Microsoft devices: TiVo Inc. on Wednesday said it extended its TiVoToGo portable video service to pocket computers and mobile phones running Microsoft software, as the television recording company beefed up its offerings in an effort to differentiate from its rivals. [via The Washington Post].

 [ International Entertainment News] Tune in and Enjoy the Ride: Select American Airlines (NYSE:AMR) customers will be among the first to try out the latest summer travel technology with free Portable Media Centers -- which they'll be able to keep -- loaded with TiVo content via a chartered flight on June 8, 2005, hosted by American Airlines, TiVo, Microsoft and Intel. Additionally, Microsoft and TiVo are launching the "Summer of Mobility" program, and as part of this program TiVo will give one lucky person each day a mobile entertainment package consisting of one Portable Media Center and one TiVo set-top box. For complete details and to register, go to www.tivo.com/TVtogo, beginning June 8, 2005. One winner will be selected at random each day, beginning on the first official day of summer -- June 21 -- through Labor Day 2005.

 [Lockergnome's Mobile Lifestyle] TiVo mobile video service now on Microsoft devices: TiVo said TiVoToGo is now available on Microsoft Corp.'s (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Windows Mobile-based Portable Media Centers -- paperback-sized devices that can play digital music and videos -- as well as certain Windows Mobile-based Smartphones and PocketPCs handheld computers.

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[Pvrblog.com] EtiVo - TiVo add on for Windows Media Center | PVRblog: I bought the TiVo because I grew impatient waiting for the Windows MCE extenders to become available. When they finally were on the market, they were similarly priced to TiVo, didn't work with older versions of WMCE and weren't readily "hackable." Of course, waiting on TiVo ToGo wasn't much more fun, but it's here and look a the fun people are having creating their own custom apps, all with TiVo's blessing. Microsoft isn't likely to be so inviting. My MCE features grow dusty while my TiVo keeps the living room warm.

[Gigaom.com] Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » TiVo Chairman Loves His Mac: But hey aren’t they working on together - putting TiVo2Go on Microsoft portable media centers? Sure, he said, because he think Microsoft’s DRM and other front end technologies are neat and help boost the growth of TiVo2Go.

[Thomashawk.com] Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: Poor First Impressions for TiVoToGo: First there is the post, "TiVo to Go, First Impressions" over at Obvious Diversion. Christian Gloddy points to the serious mistake for TiVo to build their wireless transfer around 802.11b technology rather than 802.11g and writes, "In short, TivoToGo isn’t really usable for me unless I seriously plan ahead or until Tivo adds support for 802.11g adapters. This is disappointing to say the least as I had been waiting for this feature for some time. I’m surprised Tivo didn’t make sure to support at least one faster adapter in anticipation of TiVoToGo." According to Gloddy it would take about 5 hours to transfer a one hour photo via wi-fi with the new service.

 [Jeffsandquist.com] Jeff Sandquist - Microsoft Evangelist - Tivo Releases TivoToGo: Tivo used Windows Media Player 10 as the building blocks for TivoToGo on the PC. ... +tivo +"media player" (www.google.com) TiVoToGo Microsoft ...

[Engadget.com] Another TiVoToGo review: Half a loaf is better than none ...: Frank Bajak of the Associated Press has put TiVoToGo through its paces and says what a lot of us have been thinking: namely that the service is a half-baked solution that tries to please both the TV networks and consumers and ends up not serving either very well. Oh, and Microsoft is about to clean TiVo’s clock as Media Center PCs become more common and easier to use. Still, he does point out one plus about the service: if you’re already a TiVo customer and have your box hooked up to your home network, TiVoToGo won’t cost you anything extra. Guess that’s a reasonable value proposition.

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Posted at June 08, 2005 12:06 PM