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TiVo and Netflix forge alliance.(Business)(Brief Article)

After a period of intense speculation, personal video recorder (PVR) pioneer TiVo and Netflix, the world's largest online movie rental service, have announced agreement for co-operation on Internet movie download service. There has been much speculation on the business model for the service, but no details have been announced. The joint platform may offer an Internet video-on-demand (VoD) service that enables customers to download feature films onto their TiVo devices. Potential business models could be on a sell-through basis, taking advantage of TiVo's yet-to-come recordable DVD

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