Randy Weber

According to the Wall Street Journal, TiVo is now offering a great new product feature done in partnership with Entertainment Weekly. TiVo users can now record shows recommended by Entertainment Weekly. It appears that TiVo looks to do more partnerships like this. Anything that makes it easier to find and record the best shows is great in my book. I love it.

Now if I could easily share my recordings list with my friends, I’d be even happier.

Back in December 2006 I wrote about TiVo not keeping up in the quest to be the provider of the “sofa web.”

Om Malik at GigaOM discusses the new game consoles and the contribution they might make to Internet browsing. He refers to it as the “sofa web.”

It was announced that TiVo and Amazon Team Up - NYTimes.com. This is a positive step towards TiVo becoming part of the sofa web. I can’t wait to see more deals.

Zatz Not Funny! says YouTube on TiVo Launches. I know how crappy YouTube videos look on my iPhone. How bad do you think they’ll look on your big screen TV, especially HDTV? I could see people using this a few times and then dumping it. I say no big deal.

Om Malik makes a case why EchoStar should by TiVo (Why the New EchoStar Should Buy TiVo « NewTeeVee). I’d like to make a case why TiVo should NOT sell to EchoStar.

1) They are about to win a bunch of money from EchoStar in a patent infringement suit.

2) Other than the ability to combine TiVo functionality with that of Slingbox, EchoStar has nothing to offer since it’s no longer tied to a satellite provider that can put TiVos in homes.

3) I still say that Yahoo or Apple would be a better home, though it looks like Apple has just about finished rolling out its own solution. So that leaves Yahoo. If Microsoft picks up Yahoo, then that pretty much eliminates Yahoo as a possible suitor since MS already has their own solution in the Media Center.

So, on second thought, maybe they should sell since there’s probably not going to be anyone left to buy them that could add anything to the equation.

Whatever you do TiVo, please find a way to get me a dual-tuner, HD box that will work with my cable that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.

Om Malik at GigaOM discusses the new game consoles and the contribution they might make to Internet browsing. He refers to it as the “sofa web.” It’s good reading.

He also discusses how Opera has been good at recognizing opportunities in the mobile market and is now going after the game console market.

As much as I like to see Om talk about this, it makes me sad that TiVo is not even considered in the conversation, not that they deserve to. I feel that TiVo has really dropped the ball when it comes to being the box that integrates the Internet, PCs, Audio, Video, DVR, and TV in the living room. Everything was there from the head start in the living room to the easily customizable linux-based platform on which TiVo software sits.

Perhaps TiVo and Opera need to be talking.