Best Buy streaming new music to TiVos

This is pretty cool news for folks that own a Series 2 TiVo with the Home Media Option and have it hooked to a broadband line (probably not the majority of TiVo owners, but a perfect demographic to sell to). Every Tuesday, music labels release new albums, and Best Buy will be streaming down a few demo tracks from new albums every Tuesday.

That was one thing I found kind of disappointing with the Home Media Option when I tested it last summer, the music didn't change very often and they weren't taking advantage of the potential the music feature offered customers.

So new music on your TiVo every Tuesday going forward sounds like a great idea, both for TiVo owners looking for new songs to sample, and for Best Buy, since they'll likely sell a few more albums this way.

Comments

[MegaZone]

80% of customers have broadband

60% of customers have home networks

That's from the TiVo con-call on 5/25. (I posted more info from that call in the 'tivolovers' Live Journal community and alt.video.ptv.tivo.)

What they need to do now is enable ecommerce from the TiVo remote. After listening to the song you need to be able to buy the CD from the couch.

[j]

if you want to hear shoutcast streams on you tivo, connect to the stream, save the playlist as .m3u file and publish the .m3u file to the tivo.

[Ryan]

Great! And don't all Series 2 owners have the Home Media Option now? Ow. The cost of being an early adopter...

[R]

I was extremely excited to get this e-mail from Tivo yesterday. This was my big reason for not getting a second unit - above the cost of the unit, which I think is reasonable, to take advantage of all the features available, you needed to spend $12.99/mo on each unit, $150 to get HMO on both units, and ~$70 to set another USB 802.11b adapter. So $150 for the Tivo, $220 for the extras, and then $12.99 more a month gets to be a LOT.

I'll probably go and buy a second Tivo this month, just to take advantage of the new features.

[C]

How sweet would it be if TiVo and the iTunes Music Store hooked up so you could preview new tracks on iTMS thru the TiVo (and thru my stereo!)? Maybe Apple needs to make iTunes for the TiVo -- you could search, buy and listen via iTunes/TiVo!

[Susan Carley Oliver]

Mmmm, I would *definitely* prefer buying a single track (a la iTunes model) than the CD . . . .