TiVo converge com o podcasting

O facto de o TiVo (potente máquina de gravação video digital, que - por aquilo que sei - apenas existe nos EUA) passar a receber e a reproduzir podcasts é um sinal dos novos tempos; da capacidade das novas tecnologias convergirem; do podcast se afirmar.

"The functionality uses  RSS feeds to bring the audio shows to the listeners. The shows are not actually downloaded to the TiVo boxes but are in effect streamed. There's no word on what additional ads might be included as part of the service but whatever spots might be within the podcast will be left intact"

As primeiras reacções não são muito animadoras: "initial reactions aren't too promising. Perhaps the service is still in alpha beta, but folks are finding that it takes a good four or five minutes to add an RSS feed to the TiVo via a remote. Worse yet: after all that hard work the only reward you get is to have the feed disappear from your Favorites after using the regular TiVo menu. That's pretty sad since TiVo remembers every pixel of a television show. You'd think it could remember a few characters for a podcast feed."