Comments on: Yahoo Partners With TiVo On Remote Scheduling

By: TiVoBlog.com » Blog Archive » Yahoo! TV Vs. TiVo Central Online (TCO), Which One Is Better?

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:48:47 +0000

[...] Unless you live in a box, you probably already know that TiVo and Yahoo announced a partnership back in November ‘05 whereby TiVo users can now schedule recordings on their TiVo via Yahoo!’s website. When I heard about this news, it made me wonder why somebody would want to use Yahoo’s website when TiVo already has TiVo Central Online. To try and come up with some type of answer to this question, I’ve decided to put together the following table which is suppose to compare the features of Yahoo! TV to TiVo Central Online. [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:54:48 +0000

Looks like I may have “fixed” my problem. I think that the single quote (’) in my DVR name was causing a problem when I tried to record a new show. In order to get around this problem I had to update my DVR name on TiVo.com and then click on the “Update DVR List” on tv.yahoo.com. It took a day for Yahoo to notice that the name had changed however, now that I have a new DVR name I am able to record shows using tv.yahoo.com. I don’t know if this was the problem however, now things seem to be working. If I get a chance I will try and put a single quote back into my DVR name in order to see if the problem comes back. Has anybody else seen this problem?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:38:05 +0000

I kind of got around the problem however; now I’ve ran into a new problem. For whatever reason, it looks as though my TiVo account wasn’t really linked to my Yahoo account. To get past the previous error I had to access this page:

http://tv.yahoo.com/onlinesch/tivo/settings

And click on the “Update DVR List” link. Now I’m having a problem when I select the DVR that I want the show to record to. For whatever reason it is telling me the following:

unable to find the device with name [Alex's DVR] on your account

I don’t know what I need to do from here…Any suggestions? It looks as though my account has been linked because it knows what my DVR is named. Strange…..

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 14:30:36 +0000

TK,
I’m getting the same error. Here it is:

Document not found

The document you requested is not found. It may have expired.

Try these links:

* Yahoo! TV home page
* Yahoo! home page

If you still have problems, please visit our Help section.

By: TK

TK — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:57:53 +0000

I cannot get the scheduling to work. Everytime I click a show to TiVo I get “Document not found.” for my next page. Anyone else have this problem? Or is it just lucky me

By: New York

New York — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:29:32 +0000

Interestingly - Yahoo web scheduling response time (in terms of website peformance) is noticeably faster than TiVo Online Scheduling.

By: friday

friday — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 20:23:44 +0000

Will be great as the Tivo web scheduling tool is pretty slow. My guess is the Yahoo one will be fast like all their other tools.

By: LindaG

LindaG — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:13:43 +0000

I hope they offer Yahoo! Mail using TiVo if they do im switching from Gmail or atleast have my gmail email redirect to my Yahoo! account.
Google should buy TiVo i would love to use Gmail on TV.

By: Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:16:46 +0000

Yahoo! should buy TiVo by the way. Poison pill aside, TiVo should work out a deal with them.

By: Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 13:15:57 +0000

Good one Alex. I would have expected to see this news on the official TiVo blog as well — but I think they are off tracking down some guy’s dog named TiVo in Idaho at the moment.

By: LindaG

LindaG — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:29:06 +0000

Looks like i no longer need to use Google for atleast some of the things.

This is amazing, I wish Google would partner with TiVo aswell.