YouTube Hits TV via TiVo DVR

ALVISO, July 17: Following
a partnership between YouTube and TiVo, broadband-connected subscribers with
TiVo Series3 and TiVo HD DVRs now have access to hundreds of millions of
user-generated videos hosted by the online video-sharing giant.

TiVo users can search,
browse and watch YouTube videos through their DVR interface, and soon will also
be able to access their YouTube videos, channels and playlists directly through
the TV by logging into their YouTube account. Over the coming weeks, TiVo will
roll out a software upgrade to Series3 and TiVo HD DVRs that enables this feature.

"With YouTube content
now available on TiVo, on top of all the movies, music videos, songs and TV
shows that are simply unavailable on cable and satellite, TiVo subscribers have
more choice on their TV sets than any other TV viewers in the world," said
Tom Rogers, the president and CEO of TiVo.

"YouTube brings video
where the audience is—across the web and onto mobile devices, TVs and
video games," commented Hunter Walk, YouTube's director of product
management. "The partnership with TiVo extends our ability to make YouTube
accessible anywhere and lets people watch what they want, when they want
it."

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski