We were hoping that
podcasting
would give TiVo a new lease on life, but the initial reactions aren't too promising. Perhaps the service is still in
alpha beta, but folks are finding that it takes a good four or five minutes to add an RSS feed to the TiVo via a remote.
Worse yet: after all that hard work the only reward you get is to have the feed disappear from your Favorites after
using the regular TiVo menu. That's pretty sad since TiVo remembers every pixel of a television show. You'd think it
could remember a few characters for a podcast feed.
Details are sketchy on who will be in the coveted
"Featured" folder as well; some reports indicate some stringent requirements that most podcasts can't meet.
No we don't mean fun and entertaining, we mean short and kid-safe. TiVo might want to rewind a little on this strategy.
1. I almost assumed that was Television .- TiVo was new to me. I'm cheking it out now, thanks.
Posted at 4:29PM on Feb 3rd 2006 by Gratis Flirten