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TiVo To Distribute Web Video, Too

TiVo Inc. has announced a partnership with online video service provider Brightcove to deliver Web-based content to TiVo's broadband TV boxes. Soon, some TiVo owners will be able to record TV shows and Web-based videos from Brightcove's content partners. Brightcove's online TV service, launched in November, offers producers a means of creating and syndicating online videos. The new deal means TiVo has become Brightcove's latest distribution channel; Time Warner's AOL is Brightcove's biggest distribution partner, for which it will begin distributing videos this summer. Other content partners include National Lampoon Inc.'s TogaTV.com and MTV's Teen Channel. Brightcove has yet to determine which programs will debut on TiVo's digital video recorders. The programs will be offered for free but may carry advertising.

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