Comments on: Yahoo! Go TV… Powered by TiVo?

By: travesti

travesti — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:15:18 +0000

thanks !

By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:19:57 +0000

It will be a chace for Yahoo to develop their activities. I think it will be nice, because this a serious search engine with lot of caracters.

By: DVR Software Fan

DVR Software Fan — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 10:37:07 +0000

Tivo would be a good acquisition for Google.

Right now, TiVo’s market value is just over $500 million, or about a third of what Google paid for YouTube. Google could plunk down $1 billion for TiVo and still get a bargain. Then Google could begin selling TiVo boxes for $100 each and offering the top-notch TiVo subscription service for free; with such a strategy it could quickly grab market share from copycat rivals.

By: Neuman

Neuman — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:40:31 +0000

I think this answers the questions of what powers Yahoo Go TV:

http://www.meedio.com

Yahoo has bought Meedio, and HTPC software company

By: information is king

information is king — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:07:21 +0000

tivo functionality is not likely to come by way of yahoo’s widgets. these offer a trival development framework centered around javascript and some imaging libraries.

tivo on windows requires real-time os guarentees that windows doesn’t have out of the box. not that it can’t be done:
http://tinyurl.com/ggqv9

i believe it was ramsey who said they were looking at the pc as a platform a few years ago. this would likely take quite an effort (team of maybe 6-10 for 6-8 months) and would require win32 experts, current code base experts, testers, a project manager, and a yahoo liaison. so, i don’t think this is the path of least resistance.

most likely, tivo would just rebrand a cut of the sa2 for yahoo.

relevent to this discussion, is yahoo’s recent press:
http://tinyurl.com/zvysk

the message i take away from this last article is that yahoo would like past statements about video pursuits to be taken with a grain of salt. the article also alludes to a power struggle within yahoo over strategic direction. yahoo could be losing their tivo ally. hopefully there are some sharp analysts that will drill yahoo about past statements in relation to current strategy to clarify yahoo’s future committments.

By: Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:27:42 +0000

At the Yahoo! tent at CES they had two versions of their living room software. One was a TiVo version and one was a non TiVo version. The non TiVo version was GoTV which was available as a download app and would work on any computer. The non-TiVo version did not have a PVR. The TiVo version was what looked like a prototype of a similar service for folks with Series 2 TiVos.

Although they have been working together on these initiatives I don’t think there is anything going on beyond business as usual.

TiVo would be a good play for Yahoo! though. But heck, TiVo would be good play for a lot of people.

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:26:21 +0000

It is possible TiVo’s cooperation is limited to Yahoo’s cobranded TV listings. Perhaps Yahoo Go will offer TiVo scheduling via mobile phone and Yahoo is rolling their own PVR software. Or perhaps Yahoo Go TV will natively playback .tivo files. Hmmm… Hopefully we’ll learn more when TiVo reports March 8th.