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Point, click, screen: will TiVo's ability to download Net content change TV?(video-on-demand...

By Romano, Allison
Publication: Broadcasting & Cable
Date: Monday, June 14 2004

It's Friday, and you feel like watching Pretty Woman one more time. Forget going to the video store or surfing through your cable video-on-demand menu. Just tell TiVo to download the flick from the Internet.

We're not there yet, but get ready.

Digital-video-recorder company TiVo is developing an Internet-based service that would allow subscribers to download movies and programming to their PC--and store it on their DVR hard drive for playback. By all accounts, the technology is at least a year off. But TiVo could change how people watch television--again. <

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