Thursday at around 5PM EST I had the opportunity to talk with the one of the creators of CozmoTV.com, Alex Rowland. Alex and I had a wonderful 50 minute conversation in which we covered a number of topics. Most of the time we talked about Alex’s new web application known as CozmoTV. Alex and his business partner, Jason Solinski, have gone ahead and created an amazing web application that allows you to manage your TV watching experience. CozmoTV is still in beta so there are a number of features and improvements that Alex would like to make. The current version of the site has only been available to the general public for about one and half weeks. In this short amount of time, Alex & Jason have received a lot of praise from both their users and the blogging community.

Currently, Cozmo is really kind of basic. Upon creating an account you will be asked for some simple information including the types of programming that you are interested, your zip code (so that it can figure out your cable provider) and your TiVo login information. Once your account is active (which literally takes 20 seconds), you will be presented with a wonderful looking web app which allows you to search, tag (this is sweet), rate, recommend and browse TV shows that are available via your cable or satellite provider.

The current version of CozmoTV is really cool however; I don’t consider it a replacement for TiVo Central Online (TCO) or Yahoo TV. This may change when version 2.0 of Cozmo is released. Alex and his buddy Jason have some wonderful near-term plans for the future of CozmoTV. In the near-term (before the end of the year), CozmoTV users will be able to record internet video content directly to their TiVo with a couple of mouse clicks. Alex and I both agree that the current method for getting internet video content onto a TiVo or MCE box is extremely difficult if not impossible. The average user doesn’t want to go through the hassle of downloading content and then converting it into the proper format so that their DVR can display the video. CozmoTV hopes to eliminate this problem by allowing the user to push content to their DVR with a couple clicks of the mouse. Version 2.0, is supposed to provide this capability. Along with this capability, CozmoTV 2.0 will also provide a number of other Web 2.0ish features including the ability to share which shows you’ve recorded and the ability to add channels of people who may have similar interests to you.

For anybody who would like to try out CozmoTV, you can head on over to their website and sign up now. As I said before, the sign up is extremely quick. Also, if you want to keep up to date on CozmoTV news, you might want to visit their blog.

Thanks Alex for taking the time out of your busy day to talk with me. CozmoTV is really a wonderful application! I look forward to CozmoTV 2.0 and the new features that you will provide.