RSSBlackBerry-controlled TiVo is on its way
By Tim Conneally | Published September 11, 2008, 1:06 PM
A partnership between TiVo and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) was announced today, promising a future synergy between the popular smartphone and DVR products.
Unfortunately, we are not yet seeing the ability to stream TiVo to BlackBerry handsets, like Sling Media promised earlier this year. Instead, TiVo subscribers will first be given access to their program guide and scheduling functionality on their BlackBerry.
The future of this partnership, however, seems to be headed toward eventually streaming TiVo to BlackBerry. Today's announcement from the two companies mentions future collaboration that "will focus on software applications that further simplify mobile access to video content."
TiVo has had the ability to transfer DVR content to laptops and media center devices for nearly four years with TiVoToGo, which provides a level of mobility to TiVo subscribers. If the company moves quickly on this technology, it may actually be able to beat SlingPlayer Mobile to the punch, as the software still lacks support for non-Windows Mobile, Palm, and Symbian devices.
AT&T and RIM have not put an exact date on when the 3G Blackberry Bold is to be released in the United States, but TiVo's announcement today is timed quite closely with what many expect to be the device's launch: next Monday.
I have the 8703e and have NEVER EVER EVER had a crash. I do admit they seem to be getting chintzier and chintzier as new models arrive.
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|Enabling remote control of the programming functions could be useful - although I don't really see where one would be more familiar with the programming content when they are away as opposed to when they are at home actively interacting with the boob toob.
But I guess if you suddenly found yourself indisposed and you simply couldn't make it home to watch 2 1/2 Men or Jerry Springer or Oprah(hey, do YOU know what type of orgasm is 'in' this week?), having the ability to record it would be nice.
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|Shouldn't RIM work on making a less error prone os before they work on major advancements for their os. I mean is that not the argument with Microsoft's os?
My blackberry curve crashes more often then windows. And I use windows x10 more.
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|You really have a problem with you Curve then. I'm a heavy user of it and had only one crash in a full year.
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|The Curve is known to crash a lot.
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|I have one, as does my wife, father, best friend, and his wife. All of us use our Curve's differently (I probably have more third party applications than all the others combined), yet not one of us has issues with crashing. As suggested, you may want to take it in for service.
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|Same here, my Curve almost never crashes and I have a lot of apps and accounts.
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|No crash here either. I don't remember my Curve ever crashing actually. Wanna see crash? Get that new Samsung Instinct! Creating a bookmark causes the phone to reboot automatically!
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