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Tivo Finally To Offer Networking !!!!
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Posted by: type_g

Owners of TiVo's Series 2 Digital Video Recorders will soon be able to add their unit to a home network, so they can share content among PCs, Macs, and other networked TiVo units in the home.

The company will launch its Home Media Option this spring, and will offer existing TiVo customers the upgrade for $99. TiVo executives demonstrated the technology, and showed off new TiVo-based hardware, at the Consumer Electronics Show here.

TiVo designed its Series 2 products--which first appeared in retail stores last April--with an eye toward future networking, says Mike Ramsay, chairman and chief executive officer. The company plans to deliver it with the same easy-to-use interface that TiVo fans have grown to appreciate.

Subscribers will order the Home Media Option online, and TiVo will download the necessary software to the unit, Ramsay says. You download more software to a PC or Mac, plug any USB-based wired or wireless (802.11b) network adapter into the TiVo unit, and then you're ready to go.

"It's super easy, and it doesn't take up any space on your [TiVo] hard drive," he says.

TiVo subscribers with more than one DVR can download the software to add a second unit to the network for another $49, he says.

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Owners of TiVo's Series 2 Digital Video Recorders will soon be able to add their unit to a home network, so they can share content among PCs, Macs, and other networked TiVo units in the home.

The company will launch its Home Media Option this spring, and will offer existing TiVo customers the upgrade for $99. TiVo executives demonstrated the technology, and showed off new TiVo-based hardware, at the Consumer Electronics Show here.

TiVo designed its Series 2 products--which first appeared in retail stores last April--with an eye toward future networking, says Mike Ramsay, chairman and chief executive officer. The company plans to deliver it with the same easy-to-use interface that TiVo fans have grown to appreciate.

Subscribers will order the Home Media Option online, and TiVo will download the necessary software to the unit, Ramsay says. You download more software to a PC or Mac, plug any USB-based wired or wireless (802.11b) network adapter into the TiVo unit, and then you're ready to go.

"It's super easy, and it doesn't take up any space on your [TiVo] hard drive," he says.

TiVo subscribers with more than one DVR can download the software to add a second unit to the network for another $49, he says.

Posted by: BrettStah

Check around... old news already.

Posted by: type_g

ahhh who cares, to me its new so i thought i post, if you do not like it thats fine :) have a great day

Posted by: mk553

So I'm glad you posted the info... about time TiVo got around to this too. Now they just need to eventually offer allowing people to swap/exchange recordings, and that would be even better...

Posted by: type_g

well THANK YOU MK :) i am glad someone likes my post :) I wish i could be at the CES 2003 so i could of seen what it looks like and as well as see all the other cool gadgets and gizmos coming out

Posted by: TIM2245

I wonder if it will be available for those of us with a series 1 unit. I have a T60 without the USB ports so I wonder?......:rolleyes:

Posted by: BrettStah

Features announced thus far are for Series2 standalone Tivos only... here's a thread that has a lot of info about the new features:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-v...&threadid=89976

Posted by: type_g

ahhh cool :)