A war is brewing. The war for your television viewing habits.
It started with TiVo. Channel 7 wants to take over your lounge room with a decent PVR, full of cool functions like SeasonPass and IP Video. Then Foxtel decided to crank it up a notch with the iQ2 – adding HD to their already impressive digital box. The other day, Sony decided to join the fray by announcing the PlayTV add-on for the PS3, turning your console into a PVR.
So many warriors. Such a large battle looming. And on the side, slightly out of sight but no less a threat to the other champions, is IceTV.
Before the battle begins, they’ve launched their first wave of attacks – adding functionality to their EPG service to give and device running their software even more features. The biggest of which is IceTV Recommendations.
Orangeboy
Friday, May 2, 2008 at 1:36 AMHaha! “Recommendations” is hardly a new feature – Tivo has had Tivo “Suggestions” for years! It sounds like the same technology, just rebranded a different way. Hmmm… Didn’t EchoStar do something similar to that?! I don’t think it worked out too well for that company…
Bob Dole
Friday, May 2, 2008 at 4:32 AMWow! That’s a great new idea! Oh, wait. TiVo has had that for a loooong time.
Nick Broughall
Friday, May 2, 2008 at 6:35 AMNo arguments from me, but TiVo still isn’t commercially available in Australia, so technically over here they’re ahead of the pack.
Marc Edwards
Thursday, May 15, 2008 at 2:02 PMWhile TiVo has had recommendations for quite some time and other websites have had this too (Amazon, iTunes etc), this is the first time such a service has been available in Australia for TV recording.
Another thing worth noting is that the recommendation (and entire interface shown here for recording) is web, widget or mobile phone based… so you can use it from anywhere, not just in front of your TV.
It’s not a giant leap forward, but I hope you’ll agree that it is very handy anyway.