Yahoo Partners With TiVo On Remote Scheduling
Yahoo and TiVo have partnered up to allow you to schedule your TiVo recordings directly from Yahoo TV. While this feature is essential the same kind of thing that TiVo Central Online already offers, I’m rather excited about it because I think it will generate a lot of new subscribers to the TiVo service. I’m sure that there already are a ton of Yahoo TV users who are now thinking about getting a TiVo simply because recording from Yahoo TV is easy. Smart move TiVo! To get started, head on over to this page.
Could this partnership have been caused by the talks TiVo had with Yahoo back in April ‘05?
November 7th, 2005 at 7:29 am |
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.
November 7th, 2005 at 8:15 am |
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.
November 7th, 2005 at 8:16 am |
Yahoo! should buy TiVo by the way. Poison pill aside, TiVo should work out a deal with them.
November 7th, 2005 at 9:13 am |
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.
November 7th, 2005 at 3:23 pm |
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.
November 7th, 2005 at 5:29 pm |
Interestingly - Yahoo web scheduling response time (in terms of website peformance) is noticeably faster than TiVo Online Scheduling.
November 9th, 2005 at 8:57 am |
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
November 9th, 2005 at 9:30 am |
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.
November 9th, 2005 at 9:38 am |
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:
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…..
November 10th, 2005 at 10:54 am |
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?
January 30th, 2006 at 10:48 pm |
[...] 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. [...]