[opendtv] New TiVo Application Platform Opens Its Doors to Third Party Developers

     New TiVo Application Platform Opens Its Doors to Third Party
     Developers
     - Jan 31, 2005 08:00 AM (PR Newswire)

TiVo Continues to Foster Innovation in Digital Entertainment by Opening Its
Platform to Developers; Offers Tool Kit for Development of Third Party
Applications


ALVISO, Calif., Jan. 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TiVo Inc.
(Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital
video recorders (DVR), today announced the availability of an early-access
software development kit (SDK) that allows third parties to create
entertainment and information applications that extend the TiVo service.
Today's announcement supports TiVo's new service strategy Tahiti, announced
earlier this month at the Consumer Electronics Show. This SDK gives
broadcasters and developers an easy, flexible way to deploy media rich
broadband applications to TiVo subscribers, making this one of the largest
open platforms to exist in the living room.


TiVo subscribers will soon be able to access new applications from their
broadband-connected TiVo(R) Series2(TM) DVR, whether they're hosted by TiVo
servers or running locally on their home PC. TiVo expects a wide variety of
applications will be created, such as rich music and photo services, advanced
program and movie guides, sports applications, local weather info, and
multiplayer social games.

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