Comments on: IceTV Tries To Give TiVo The Finger With New Features http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/icetv_tries_to_give_tivo_the_finger_with_new_features/ the Gadget Guide | Technology and consumer electronics news and reviews Mon, 23 Nov 2009 01:54:19 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Marc Edwards http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/icetv_tries_to_give_tivo_the_finger_with_new_features/comment-page-1/#comment-6117 Marc Edwards Thu, 15 May 2008 04:02:39 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/icetv_tries_to_give_tivo_the_finger_with_new_features.html#comment-6117 <p>While 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>It's not a giant leap forward, but I hope you'll agree that it is very handy anyway.</p> While 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.

]]> By: Nick Broughall http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/icetv_tries_to_give_tivo_the_finger_with_new_features/comment-page-1/#comment-6116 Nick Broughall Thu, 01 May 2008 20:35:34 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/icetv_tries_to_give_tivo_the_finger_with_new_features.html#comment-6116 <p>No arguments from me, but TiVo still isn't commercially available in Australia, so technically over here they're ahead of the pack. </p> No arguments from me, but TiVo still isn’t commercially available in Australia, so technically over here they’re ahead of the pack.

]]> By: Bob Dole http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/icetv_tries_to_give_tivo_the_finger_with_new_features/comment-page-1/#comment-6115 Bob Dole Thu, 01 May 2008 18:32:13 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/icetv_tries_to_give_tivo_the_finger_with_new_features.html#comment-6115 <p>Wow! That's a great new idea! Oh, wait. TiVo has had that for a loooong time.</p> Wow! That’s a great new idea! Oh, wait. TiVo has had that for a loooong time.

]]> By: Orangeboy http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/icetv_tries_to_give_tivo_the_finger_with_new_features/comment-page-1/#comment-6114 Orangeboy Thu, 01 May 2008 15:36:33 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/05/icetv_tries_to_give_tivo_the_finger_with_new_features.html#comment-6114 <p>Haha! "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...</p> Haha! “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…

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