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.