TiVo Announcement 2010: A New Kind of DVR?

by Michael Small | March 2, 2010 at 04:12 pm

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TiVo's Announcement tonight sounds major, if you listen to the company's hype. TiVo is promising to revolutionize HD recording technology, saying creating the DVR was "just a warm-up".

There was a Best Buy leak that made the 'revolution' more of an update -- just added storage space. But it's unlikely the company would build up so much excitement for such a lackluster announcement (Although an extra 150 hours of HD recording is nothing to sneeze out).

There were reports of “Premier” and “Premier XL” SKUs showing up in Best Buy’s computer system. BusinessWeek reported on a new cross-platform search that would allow users to search TV listings, Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, and other supported services in one swoop (similar to the TiVo Search Beta currently available to Series3 and HD users).

Other possible updates could include: