• WSJ, Monday, November 7, 2005 3:30 PM

TiVo, whose digital video recorder business has been somewhat stymied of late by similar offerings from satellite and cable providers, announced a deal with Yahoo! Monday that will let its users remotely program their DVRs from Yahoo!'s site. Users can now go to Yahoo! TV and click on a "record to TiVo" icon directly on the program listings page. As part of the deal, users will soon be able to access traffic, weather, and photos stored on Yahoo! from their TiVo devices. Increased competition means that TiVo has to do something to stand out; the company still has about 43 percent of the DVR market, but added fewer customers last quarter than a year before. Furthermore, a little more than two thirds of its subscribers last quarter came from News Corp.'s DirectTV, which has said it will soon be offering its own service.

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