Comcast and TiVo showed a working version of the TiVo software running on Comcast PVRs at this years CES. The highly anticipated partnership announced over a year ago has many a Comcast cable subscriber excited at the prospect of getting some TiVo love on their current boxes.
While the companies started trialing this service in select markets near the end of last year, the formal unveiling at CES shows that a mass rollout is probably very close to occuring.
The biggest advantage to the partnership is that Comcast customers will be able to utilize a single set-top-box with TiVo's graceful user interface and still have access to great services like video-on-demand (VOD) and high definion programming.
The added TiVo software will be available for a "modest montly fee" although there is no indication of what that fee will be.
Update: Rollout doesn't appear to be coming until spring. Still no word on the pricing.
1. "enveiling"? Please tell me I didn't just read that. The "u" and "e" are nowhere near each other.
Posted at 2:51PM on Jan 8th 2007 by Joshua Ochs