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TiVo to get Blockbuster's streams

By Tim Conneally | Published March 25, 2009, 10:21 AM

TiVo announced this morning that it has inked a deal with Blockbuster to bring the company's streaming online rental service to broadband-connected Series2, Series3, TiVO HD, and HD XL set top boxes.

Blockbuster's OnDemand service will reside alongside Netflix on Demand, Amazon Video on Demand, CinemaNow and Jaman, undoubtedly making TiVo the strongest supporter of the streaming on demand model today.

As a part of the agreement between the companies, TiVo hardware will be sold in Blockbuster's retail stores and on Blockbuster.com, though the video store's current state seems to add little long-term value to this end of the deal.

The functionality will be rolled out in the second half of 2009.

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Niro
Mar 25, 2009 - 12:02 PM

No reason to have it along side a "regular" dvr...if you have tivo you get rid of your cable provided one which is usually junk anyway.

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siryak
Mar 26, 2009 - 4:42 PM

The Tivo DVR isn't much better. I have a Tivo and my parents have a Dish DVR and the Dish DVR is much better IMO.

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lvthunder
Mar 25, 2009 - 11:47 AM

TiVo is starting to become an internet streaming box along side of a regular DVR.

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