TiVo Offers New Service Feature

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TiVo says it will debut a new service early next year which will provide friends and families scattered across the country with an easy way to share their home videos, by sending them directly to the television. Rather than burning and mailing DVDs, or viewing videos uploaded on a computer, friends and family will now be able to set-up their own private channel to send home videos directly to a TiVo subscriber's TV set. TiVo has partnered with One True Media to create a comprehensive, end-to-end solution for the person who took the home movies and to whomever he or she would like to show them.

After uploading their home movies to One True Media, consumers will be able to edit their videos online and will receive a personal TiVo channel code which they can then distribute to other TiVo subscribers. With a few clicks of the TiVo remote, and the personal TiVo channel code, friends and family will be able to get a Season Pass recording that will deliver to their TiVo all the current and future home movies from the video creator. Videos will be displayed in the TiVo subscriber's Now Playing List - the same location all of their favorite television programming is stored within TiVo today.

To share home movies or slide shows privately the video creator gives his personal TiVo channel code to friends and family. Only people with the unique personal code assigned to the subscriber's channel can see the published channel. Thus, creators can share their videos with friends and family, while assuring that their most treasured memories are not publicly available to anyone.

This new service feature will be accessible to all TiVo subscribers with broadband-connected TiVo Series2 and Series3 boxes as early as the first quarter of 2007. Receiving home movies on TiVo will be free of charge to TiVo subscribers.

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