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Consuming RSS on your Tivo

Andrew Grumet's got a screenshot of his TiVo displaying RSS feeds on his TV, using a hack for TiVo Control Station. Without the capability to grab the item description and read it, I don't know how useful it is, but it's an interesting hack and probably a direction that a someday super TiVo digital home media hub might go.

In TiVo Hacks, a similar hack lets you check an email account and display subject lines and from addresses. That would seem more useful than RSS (especially if you got new mail saying "From:Boss Subject:Get back to work!"), but both pieces of software wouldn't do much besides remind you when to turn off the TiVo and get back to work on your PC.

by Matt Haughey January 31, 2004 in TiVo

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Thanks for the link! I agree with your assessment of the ultimate usefulness of this hack. It's actually a springboard to future hacks. Fwiw I'm pulling out descriptions now too...

http://grumet.net/weblog/archives/2004/01/29/000598.html

Regards,
Andrew

Posted by: Andrew Grumet at Feb 1, 2004 2:12:32 PM

Here is where I've sprung to: http://grumet.net/weblog/archives/2004/02/10/rsstv_syndication_for_your_pvr.html

Posted by: Andrew Grumet at Feb 10, 2004 8:58:55 PM

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