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More on the VM TiVO

Virgin’s TiVo-powered PVR will have three HD tuners, terabyte storage and could host iPhone-style apps.

The successor to Virgin’s V+ PVR is scheduled to launch by the end of 2010, and will use the much-lauded TiVo operating system to combine broadcast, on-demand and internet TV services.

It will have its own broadband modem, drawing bandwidth from Virgin’s cable network independent of customer broadband connections, and able to deliver three HD channels at once.

Virgin said user-available storage will be ‘on parity’ with other high end PVRs like the 1TB Sky+HD, in addition to hundreds of hours of HD on-demand, including BBC iPlayer’s hi-def stream.

The TiVo operating system is also described as ‘extensible’, potentially allowing third parties to create iPhone-style applications which can be added by users.

This will initially be restricted to on-demand video services and is also expected to include social networking from the likes of Facebook and Twitter shortly after launch.

Once a quality-control process has been devised, it could be opened up more widely to the developer community.
Read more about the Connected TV devices sweeping the UK in the forthcoming November 2010 issue of Wotsat, on sale October 28.
http://wotsat.techradar.com/news/soc...o-pvr-08-10-10