I was listening to the audio presentation Tivo CEO Tom Rogers gave at DEMXPO and someone asked the question about third party content providers trying to get stuff on a Tivo (and then on to a television). Tom's answer:
* in opening up to third parties, Tivo was looking for ways to build community. * Rogers believes that broadband will play a big role in Tivo future and that 25% of Tivo users already have their machines hooked up to a high speed connection with no encouragement from the company. He seemed to be impressed by the number. * Tivo believes it can be a distributor/aggregator of content for the television, in a legal way of course. Toss in the news about Yahoo users being able to view their photo's (I'm assuming this is Flickr) on a Tivo and it's starting to look like Tivo is becoming the ultimate media outlet. Conceivably, individual podcasters and video bloggers could get in on the action pretty soon. It wouldn't take that much to make it happen. If you want to hear Tom's answer in his own words, you can download the audio file (it's a time index 45:14): http://www.paidcontent.org/pc/arch/2005_11_30.shtml#052589 If you want a quickie summary of his presentation, I text blogged it ("Tom Rogers On Why Tivo Is Good For Advertising"): http://www.digitalmerging.la/archives/2005/12/tom_rogers_on_why_tivo_is_good_for_advertising.html -- Michael Shipp ************* Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog: digitalmerging - Tech. Media. Convergence. http://www.digitalmerging.la Digital Pictures: Pixel Latte http://www.digitalmerging.net/pixellatte/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
