TiVo is a company that has been around for a while now. The company has a lot of products, but one of their most popular products is the TiVo Premiere. This product is used to watch television shows and movies on your computer or television. TiVo also has a software that can be used to power your next smart TV. This software is called TiVo Plus. It can be found on the TiVo website. The TiVo Plus software can be used to power your smart TV in two ways. The first way is by using it as an input device. This means that you can use it to control your smart TV in addition to watching television shows and movies. The second way is by using it as an output device. This means that you can use it to watch television shows and movies on your smart TV without having to use the computer or television set itself. TheTiVO Plus software has a lot of features that are not available with the regular TiVo software. One of these features is the ability to record television shows and movies into memory so that you can watch them later without having to wait for them to play back on your computer or television set. Another feature of the TiVO Plus software is the ability to pause and resume playback of television shows and movies so that you can keep watching them even if you are not at home or when they are scheduled to play back again. Overall, theTiVO Plus software is a great addition to any home theater setup because it allows you to control your smart TV in addition to watching television shows and movies from your computer or Television set itself
So, why does TiVo want to build its own TV software? Well, all the current TV software providers now push their products and services over competing options — for example, all TVs with Fire OS heavily promote Prime Video. Full customization for TV makers was mostly limited to Android TV, which TiVo used for its Stream 4K stick, but Google started to limit that with the introduction of Google TV. TiVo is now building a white-label operating system for TV devices, allowing TV makers to more fully control the software experience while still maintaining access to popular apps and streaming services.
It remains to be seen if TVs running TiVo’s software will be more convenient and easy to use for buyers, or if they will have the same amount of clutter and advertisements — just from other companies. TiVo says the software has “easy set-up and natural voice navigation,” but it’s not clear which streaming services will be available.
The first “Powered by TiVo” smart TVs will arrive in 2023, starting with models from Vestel, one of the top three European TV manufacturers.
Source: BusinessWire, TiVo
