What TiVo Needs to Stay On the Air

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In brief:

1. Increased mobility and portability. Ramsay continued to promote the TiVoToGo technology. He also specifically reiterated today that TiVo is developing the ability to offload recorded television to Microsoft's Portable Media Center units.

2. Deliver a TiVo branded experience on the PC. Wow. This is huge. Although there are over 3 million TiVo units out there right now (about a million with broadband connection) there are vastly, vastly more PCs out there. "This platform (PC) is playing an increasing role in the management of home entertainment and TiVo intends to offer applications and services that capitalize on the PCs unique power and network capabilities as well as it's enormous reach and scale of install base," said Ramsay.

3. Continue to develop a broadband delivery platform. TiVo is right on here. They should continue to look at ways to push both popular programming and micro content over the network and on to their units.