RSSTiVo, Verizon Allow Mobile DVR Control
By the Betanews Staff | Published March 7, 2006, 10:59 AM
TiVo announced Tuesday a partnership with Verizon Wireless that would allow the carrier's customers to control their home DVRs by cell phone. For around $5 per month, users could schedule programs to record through a downloadable application for their phones. The service would work much like the "Online Scheduling" feature of the TiVo Web site.
Verizon intends to heavily promote the new feature on promotional materials, and in its stores and advertising campaigns. As part of the deal, TiVo additionally agreed to give Verizon exclusive rights to the service for two months following the launch of the product. After that time, the DVR maker would be free to market the service to other carriers.
Wow. Absurd. $60 a year to do something you can do for $0 a year on your cell phone (if you have web service). If you don't have web service, apply the 60 bucks to get web service so you can do more with your money beside programming your TV (which you could do before you left your house).
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How can they justify $5 a month for something that you can easily do ahead of time or do from any computer that has internet access? Heck you can even do it on cell phones now. While typing this post I just setup my Tivo to record Lost via the web browser on my Treo, that cost me nothing above and beyond my normal unlimited internet fee.
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