TiVo Extends Range to Video iPod & PSP

TiVo Extends Range to Video iPod & PSP

Alan Breznick, Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading

November 22, 2005

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Cable operators who think they have plenty of time to enter the hot portable media player market better think again. It may take off sooner than they anticipated. In the latest move in this rapidly evolving market, TiVo announced Mon. that it will make it easy for its subscribers to transfer recorded TV programming from their standalone digital video rcorders (DVRs) to Apple Computer's new video iPods and Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) devices. TiVo, which already allows its customers to transfer TV shows from their DVRs to PCs and laptops, said it will test this new enhancement of its TiVoToGo service over the next few weeks with TiVo Series2 subscribers who own iPods or PSPs. If all goes well, the company then plans to offer the feature to all TiVo Series2 subscribers sometime early next year. With EchoStar now offering a portable media player, DirecTV gearing up to do the same and the three biggest wireless phone providers all adding video and other multimedia content to their cell phone handsets, it may behoove cable operators to move faster than usual. In a recent report, the Consumer Electronics Association estimated that 152 million Americans, or 70% of U.S. adults, now own some kind of portable entertainment device.

About the Author

Alan Breznick

Principal Analyst, Heavy Reading

Alan Breznick is a business editor and research analyst who has tracked the cable, broadband and video markets like an over-bred bloodhound for more than 20 years.

As a senior analyst at Light Reading's research arm, Heavy Reading, for six years, Alan authored numerous reports, columns, white papers and case studies, moderated dozens of webinars, and organized and hosted more than 15 -- count 'em --regional conferences on cable, broadband and IPTV technology topics. And all this while maintaining a summer job as an ostrich wrangler.

Before that, he was the founding editor of Light Reading Cable, transforming a monthly newsletter into a daily website. Prior to joining Light Reading, Alan was a broadband analyst for Kinetic Strategies and a contributing analyst for One Touch Intelligence.

He is based in the Toronto area, though is New York born and bred. Just ask, and he will take you on a power-walking tour of Manhattan, pointing out the tourist hotspots and the places that make up his personal timeline: The bench where he smoked his first pipe; the alley where he won his first fist fight. That kind of thing.

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