In its latest bid to reinvent and differentiate itself from the growing legions of digital set-top devices available from cable and satellite TV operators, TiVo Monday announced a deal with Yahoo!
that will also make its digital video recorders an online portal for television. The deal will enable Yahoo! TV users to schedule and record shows online via TiVo's "Series 2" set-top boxes anywhere
they can access Yahoo!'s services. "The deal will allow TiVo, which has been struggling to differentiate its service from generic video recorders offered by cable and satellite companies, to offer a
range of content and services linked to the Internet," reports today's
New York Times. "Conversely, Yahoo is working to move its services from personal computers to other devices, including
mobile phones and--by way of devices like TiVo --the television set."
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