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Research In Motion (RIM), producers of the BlackBerry
smartphones, and the DVR company TiVo have announced a partnership for the
integration of TiVo DVRs and BlackBerry phones
in order “to serve our mutual customers”.
Although plans don’t currently include streaming TiVo
signals to the BlackBerry, like SlingMedia announced they would do with their
SlingBox device earlier this year (but have not yet implemented), RIM and TiVo
have said that there were plans to give users the ability to use their BlackBerries
as remote controllers for their TiVo DVRs, being able to do such things as view
TV listings and instruct the DVRs at home to schedule recordings from anywhere.
No more cursing because you forgot to set up the recording of your favorite
show before you left for work.
"TiVo subscribers will soon be able to wirelessly
control their TiVo DVRs using a BlackBerry smartphone - anytime, anywhere - and
that is a powerful example of how our respective technologies can complement
each other to serve our mutual customers," said RIM co-chief
executive Jim Balsillie.
TiVo have had support for mobile device control with their
TiVoToGo technology for four years, but this is the first time it has been brought
to the BlackBerry, and by the looks of things, streaming of video content directly
to the BlackBerry from your home DVR, is exactly the direction this partnership
will take. It remains to be seen whether TiVo or SlingPlayer Mobile are going
to be ones to pull it off first.
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