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Via DaveZatz, it looks like TiVo has released apps.tv for the TiVo Home Media Engine. The cool thing about apps.tv is that you connect over the internet to their server to get apps and you don't need to run the HME software on your local network. Instead, the service offers a subscription manager, making it a lot easier to try out new applications for your TiVo.
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Is there any word on whether or not this is an offical TiVo supported website? AFAIK, it's been around for a little while. The developer posted about it on TCF a month ago.
Posted by: sbutts | October 18, 2005 at 11:15 AM
perhaps I should try reading the site first...nevermind
Posted by: sbutts | October 18, 2005 at 11:18 AM
Sigh, and as always D*TV customers get a rock. Not that it's news, I just like to keep bringing it up in case anybody their might try and claim nobody cares :).
Posted by: Griffon | October 18, 2005 at 08:20 PM
Griffon -
Get a standalone...they are so cheap now.
Posted by: Tyson | October 19, 2005 at 07:53 AM
Works great... I like the idea of just being able to connect to a remote site to get my games like this...
Very easy to setup.
Posted by: Apex | October 19, 2005 at 07:55 AM
Anyone have any idea when we will start seeing the applications that won the Developer's Contest put into service? Some of those looked very sweet.
I like the "third party" applications/hosting here. I agree that this is a very easy setup and pretty cool service.
Posted by: Tyson | October 19, 2005 at 09:05 AM
Of course, since there is no way to personalize such remote apps you'll never see a weather application for your area, or an RSS reader, or pretty much any of the things in Galleon. Just games and other "stateless" applications.
Posted by: Joshua Ochs | October 19, 2005 at 11:21 AM
@Joshua Ochs
They are able to save which apps are subscribed to so they should be able to save other information such as your city.
Posted by: Allanon | October 19, 2005 at 12:13 PM
Josh - I think you are mistaken.
Posted by: Tyson | October 19, 2005 at 12:18 PM
No HD with the standalone, sadly. I have a MCE and Myth box, but we mainly use the tivo since it consolidates our HD data as well as the SD stuff, anything else get's to much for the family to deal with. What I shuold do is get one of the hacked drives, I have terrible hard drive karm and the one in our HD tivo has been problem free so far for a long time so I'm gun shy.
I don't really take the above point... if they are subscription apps, of course they should be able to load your specific data into them. Most are probable just xml front ends anyway... as long access is based on unique identifier that should be a no brainer. Graned I havn't looked into this in super detail, so if I'm missing somthing please share.
Posted by: Griffon | October 19, 2005 at 11:30 PM
Yeah, there is no reason the apps can't be personalized. The TiVo sends a unique ID that can be used as the key. So an app could allow you to, say, enter your zipcode and then show your local weather, movies, etc. And each time you return default to the zipcode you used the last time. It would just be up to the app developer to allow users to do this.
Posted by: MegaZone | October 20, 2005 at 01:45 PM