CosmoTV Supercharges TiVo

Scheduling your TiVo online is a great feature, but let’s get real. The site is not the best when it comes to finding what to watch online. That’s where CosmoTV comes in. The company took a fresh visual approach and really made TV - and especially TiVo - pop online. And the tagging feature is very interesting.

So how does today’s CozmoTV work? Well, the current beta version is pretty simple. If you are familiar with scheduling your TiVo today online through TiVo Central or Yahoo!, you basically get the same functionality with Cozmo. First off, you enter in your TiVo email address and Cozmo finds your TiVo. You can have more than one TiVo tied to your account and you might, for instance, have one labeled TiVo bedroom and another labeled TiVo living room. It only works with Series 2 TiVos, of course.

Once you have your TiVos set up you can then begin browsing for TV to watch. Like TiVo, Cozmo will offer a wide variety of categories to browse from: history, documentary, science fiction, etc. and have full search capability. But this is where it gets interesting. In addition to searching by category, you are going to be able to tag television. Using a free form tagging system at Cozmo, it is going to have users generate far more meta data which then will be searchable for deeper richer searches where you can find great new broadcast content. Source: Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection.

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We Say: This is a no-brainer and what a smart company does. Takes the burden off TiVo’s shoulders and makes a nice little business out of it.

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