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EvokeTV for finding and sharing your scheduled recordings

EvokeTV is a site doing a lot of what I wished TiVo would do. You create an account, then track shows you want to record. You can rate a TV series as well as individual episodes and they even offer RSS feeds of your show schedule. It's a snappy, ajax interface that is easy to search for shows and get info on them. They even offer a show-sharing feature for bloggers (complete with RSS feed). Here's a list of two shows I tape each week.

Ideally, it'd be great if these features were incorporated into TiVo's online scheduling service (or even cable/satellite DVRs) so that clicking a show would automatically set a recording or season pass in my TiVo. The show sharing is also a feature I'd love to see at TiVo. Netflix offers a similar feature and it's great for finding new movies that your friends enjoyed. The sharing of shows is simple and straightforward, nothing like the hacking I had to go through to reproduce my now playing list last year.

Here's a screenshot of the interface in action. Be sure to also check out their blog which offers tips and new features as they are announced.

by Matt Haughey March 11, 2006 in News

Comments

Hi, I'm one of the developers of evoke. I just wanted to let you know that remote recording on your Tivo (and other PVRs) is one of the things we are hoping to do eventually. Unfortunately it's hard to get our foot in the door at Tivo as a small startup. Unfortunately we're no Yahoo. :)

Posted by: Tony Buser at Mar 12, 2006 6:50:10 PM

I know Tivo users outnumber BeyondTV users about 1000 to 1, but BeyondTV does the ideal feature noted by the author as missing for Tivo and evoke. BeyondTV owners use Snapstream.net to do remote recordings. If you have an old computer like I do, it just takes some effort up front to set it up as a PVR and you'll be recording (and even viewing) shows remotely. And best of all there are no monthly subscription fees.

Posted by: Adam at Mar 12, 2006 9:40:08 PM

this looks very cool!

i can't figure out how to get the code into my myspace page.

myspace doesn't allow javascript and it seems to not like the iframes either.

any help?

Posted by: chris at Mar 13, 2006 6:34:37 AM

Chris: We're working on creating an image listing to use on places like myspace that don't allow script...

Posted by: Tony Buser at Mar 13, 2006 8:33:18 AM

cool, at least i know i'll stop trying to figure it out myself

Posted by: chris at Mar 13, 2006 8:55:20 AM

I'm just about to check out this & cozomotv (http://www.cozmotv.com/) as well. I know with cozmo you can record directly to Tivo, but I like the show sharing stuff of evoke.

Posted by: Bill at Mar 16, 2006 9:30:18 AM