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><channel><title>Gizmo Lovers Blog &#187; itvt</title> <atom:link href="http://www.gizmolovers.com/tag/itvt/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.gizmolovers.com</link> <description>TiVo, Slingbox, Android, Blu-ray Disc, and whatever other tech I feel like blogging about...</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:16:12 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4</generator> <item><title>InteractiveTV Today Interviews TiVo&#8217;s Tara Maitra</title><link>http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/06/10/interactivetv-today-interviews-tivos-tara-maitra/</link> <comments>http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/06/10/interactivetv-today-interviews-tivos-tara-maitra/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:32:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>MegaZone</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category> <category><![CDATA[TiVo]]></category> <category><![CDATA[itvt]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=2595</guid> <description><![CDATA[InteractiveTV Today (itvt) recently interviewed Tara Maitra, VP and General Manager of Content Services at TiVo. Tara is in charge of TiVo&#8217;s broadband strategy &#8211; TiVoCast, Unbox, YouTube, Rhapsody, etc. &#8211; so the interview is worth reading in its entirety. &#8230; <a
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href="http://www.itvt.com/wviwwitvtissue-7.82.html#interviews.01" class="broken_link">recently interviewed Tara Maitra</a>, VP and General Manager of Content Services at TiVo.  Tara is in charge of TiVo&#8217;s broadband strategy &#8211; TiVoCast, Unbox, YouTube, Rhapsody, etc. &#8211; so the interview is worth reading in its entirety.  But there are some tidbits that caught my eye in particular:</p><blockquote><p>Of the 1.7 million broadband-enabled TiVo boxes that have been deployed in consumers&#8217; homes, approximately 800,000 are actually connected to a broadband pipe. Over a period of a little more than a year, those 800,000 boxes have generated over 20 million downloads.</p></blockquote><p>So just under half of TiVo standalone boxes that are capable of being connected to broadband are.  I believe that percentage has been steadily increasing over time.  That 20 million downloads is an average of 25 per box per year.  I easily average better than 25 *per week* with all of the TiVoCasts and TiVo Web Video downloads I subscribe to.</p><p>And this is some interesting info relating to the YouTube deployment on TiVo:</p><blockquote><p>We&#8217;re working on developing the technology infrastructure for this now, and the feature should be available sometime this summer. From a technology perspective, implementing this feature requires us to enable streaming on TiVo devices&#8211;which is something that we have not supported previously. So this YouTube capability will be our first foray into enabling streaming through the TiVo service.</p></blockquote><p>I think that one of the major payoffs for the YouTube addition will be the basic foundation for streaming on TiVo.  Hopefully this ability will finally allow streaming between TiVos (<a
href="http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/05/29/tivo-news-out-of-d-all-things-digital-conference/">hinted at by Tom Rogers recently</a>) as well as support for other streaming services like <a
href="http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/05/28/amazon-to-launch-video-streaming-service-soo/">Amazon&#8217;s planned Unbox streaming</a>, and perhaps Netflix&#8217;s streaming.</p><p>If you have any interest in TiVo&#8217;s broadband content offerings, you should <a
href="http://www.itvt.com/wviwwitvtissue-7.82.html#interviews.01" class="broken_link">read the full interview</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/06/10/interactivetv-today-interviews-tivos-tara-maitra/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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