16,432 podcast Downloads from TIVO? WOW TIVO???!?!?!?!?

[Barefoot Radio.com]

Hey,

Does anyone know how to access podcasts on TIVO?? I checked on TIVO'S website and wasn't able to find any information. If anyone knows where it is please send a link.

I have a Tivo Series 2.

Is there something I have to do to set up and get the podcasts? Has it even been released yet?

Anyone who knows and can illuminate for me how to get podcasts on TIVO, I would greatly appreciate it.

[ToasterBoy]

Go Here:

http://www.tivo.com/4.9.11.asp

Scroll to the bottom and click SIGN UP FOR THE PRIORITY LIST. Then follow the directions. After about 2 or 3 days the service will show up in your Music, Photos & More Menu (along with games, weather, traffic, etc.)

Grant

[ElNacho]

how do u get on the tivo directory? is it the yahoo directory?

[ToasterBoy]

I wish I knew how we got there cause I'd go kiss the person that put us there. I assume it MUST be through Yahoo as Yahoo provides their Traffic and Weather info, but I don't know. They may just be keeping it small until they release it in a service update.

Grant

[Will-Casel]

I am able to see the Podcast section through my Tivo. I can't see very many people using this. Seems very user-unfriendly.

Check out the screenshot over at the Podcast411 forum:

http://podcast411.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=331

Each of the 7 categories listed only show 4 to 8 shows. You can browse no further!!!

Of course, you have the option of choosing "Enter a URL", but have you ever tried entering a URL with a remote control. It literally took me about 4 minutes.

A terrible integration by Tivo.

Will

[Barefoot Radio.com]

Hey Toaster boy,

Thanks for pointing that out to me. I signed up and I'm waiting now.

I'm stoked.

Thanks again!

[Barefoot Radio.com]

So the service got downloaded to my TIVO, and I found my podcast. I list it as a favorite, and when I go back to the regular TIVO menu, it erases my favorites. I wonder if this is a bug they're working out.

I must say though, that the shot of my podcast on TIVO exites me.

Anyone have any thoughts? How come my favorites get erased? Is it a bug?

[kickasspodcast]

dunno man, can't afford a tivo >shrugs<

best of luck though


jack

[Far From Subtle]

Yeah, I have been contacting TiVo reps up and down and out the wazoo with no help in getting added to their directory. :(

[Barefoot Radio.com]

Has TIVO just not yet gone public with the podcasting addons yet?

Is this a beta tryout or something? I ask because of the FAVORITES error when my favorites always get erased after I go back to using my TIVO normally.


Any words on updates to fix this issue?

[ElNacho]

kant u email them or somethin?

[SFEley]

Yeah, I have been contacting TiVo reps up and down and out the wazoo with no help in getting added to their directory. :(
Word on the street is that they're hand-picking the podcasts for their directory, with an emphasis on production quality and being family-safe.

Can't say I blame them. I'd do the exact same thing in their situation. (Even though it means Escape Pod doesn't qualify for them.)

[Far From Subtle]

Yeah, I have been contacting TiVo reps up and down and out the wazoo with no help in getting added to their directory. :(
Word on the street is that they're hand-picking the podcasts for their directory, with an emphasis on production quality and being family-safe.

Can't say I blame them. I'd do the exact same thing in their situation. (Even though it means Escape Pod doesn't qualify for them.)

Fortunately, I qualify... unfortunately, I am in no way prominant in the Yahoo listings, only iTunes listings...

[cdoelle]

Yeah, and they are also cutting out anyone who used the DirecTV TiVo service - that sucks. Folks at TiVo couldn't tell me when, if ever, they are going to include satellite customers and the folks at DirecTV said "huh?"

[Marilynfan]

I must say though, that the shot of my podcast on TIVO exites me.


We don't have TIVO in Canada :( Out of curiousity could you have a peek to see if my show is listed on it? I'd be interested to know.

Thanks!

[Barefoot Radio.com]

Word on the street is that they're hand-picking the podcasts for their directory, with an emphasis on production quality and being family-safe.

Where did you hear the stuff about family safe? I think it's a bit ironic that a tivo that will record ANYTHING on television won't list adult oriented stuff in their directory.

Have you heard that from somewhere?

I'm just talking about adding a favorite manually. In terms of WHO is in their directory, it's almost hardly any podcasts at all. Coverville is there.

[SFEley]

Where did you hear the stuff about family safe? I think it's a bit ironic that a tivo that will record ANYTHING on television won't list adult oriented stuff in their directory.

Have you heard that from somewhere?

It was a message on the Yahoo! Podcasters list a few weeks back, from Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central.

And it makes sense to me. Every television channel they offer rates its content and enables parental locking. There's no practical way to do that with podcasts, because podcasters don't submit to any uniform content standard. And putting up a directory with a subset of all podcasts implies some level of endorsement: some people will read it as TiVo approving that content.

All it takes is one mom to come home and find her kids listening to Dawn & Drew or Distorted View Daily, and learn that they found it by clicking on a picture inside their TiVo menu, for a lawsuit to wipe out whatever they hoped to achieve by offering podcasts. So going the conservative route isn't something I blame them for.

(I have my doubts that TiVo will provide significant audience numbers for anyone anyway. It just seems like a strange way to listen. I could be wrong, however.)

[Hollywood Adam]

(I have my doubts that TiVo will provide significant audience numbers for anyone anyway. It just seems like a strange way to listen. I could be wrong, however.)

Maybe we'll be returning to the 1940s where familys sat around listening to radio programs.

[monkey_one]

with all the heat the cable companys are feeling around so called indecency and having to create family friendly program bundles or possble unbundling of all channels by the F.C.C.
before the F.C.C. approve certain key mergers
Tivo is probbally being very carefull to walk on egg-shells not to raise the eybrow of the religous right around any new medium they are introducing to there paying customers
what I am trying to say is they are trying to avoid any such future debacle all together by avoiding it all together but in doing so they are limiting there subscribers to a real narrow view of whats out there in the world of pod/vid casting

[Barefoot Radio.com]

I'm not really sure the problem is the FCC. If it is, that totally sucks.

I hate the FCC. I hate the oppression of ideas, and that's partly the business they're in.

My humor is my business.

My show is my expression.

It's true though, that:
I have my doubts that TiVo will provide significant audience numbers for anyone anyway. It just seems like a strange way to listen. I could be wrong, however.


It's kind of strange watching throught the tv for me if I don't have speakers hooked up to my TIVO. I've hardly ever listened to Comcasts's regular music radio either. TV is an odd forum to deliver audio. People seem to want more there.
It's a little bit of a bummer because I think TIVO could deliver some good number to podcasters.

[monkey_one]

I'm not really sure the problem is the FCC. If it is, that totally sucks.

I hate the FCC. I hate the oppression of ideas, and that's partly the business they're in.

My humor is my business.

My show is my expression.

It's true though, that:


no I am not saying the problem is with The FCC at this point what I am saying is Tivo .
as a corporation is playing it safe so there will be no problem later on.
They are probabaly looking ahead for a posible merger buyout. Were the FCC has to give there blessing. They do not want the FCC to do to them what they are doing to comcast and timewarner. But this is only speculation on my part

[SFEley]

no I am not saying the problem is with The FCC at this point what I am saying is Tivo .
as a corporation is playing it safe so there will be no problem later on.
They are probabaly looking ahead for a posible merger buyout. Were the FCC has to give there blessing. They do not want the FCC to do to them what they are doing to comcast and timewarner. But this is only speculation on my part
That's a very interesting point. I don't know much about that industry, but your logic makes sense to me. Well said. >8->

What I don't get is why TiVo decided to start offering podcasts at all. It just seems like a strange business to be in for them... It's not generating any revenue for them, it requires active resources to maintain a directory, it's a slight to moderate legal risk, and it doesn't seem like it'd be that much of a draw. Nobody's going to say, "Hmmm, I could get a TiVo, or I could get Dish Network's house brand PVR. Oh, wait, the TiVo has podcasts! Done deal!"

Not that I'm complaining that they have them, mind you. I'm just highly curious about their logic.

[kinkysex]

Not that I'm complaining that they have them, mind you. I'm just highly curious about their logic.

I think it's what I call, "Checkbox marketing". Look on the back of a software package to see what I mean. It's just a list of features with checks next to them. Bloatware is famous for this.

I think TIVO just wants more checks than any other service. Podcasts are a cheap alternative to mainstream content. Really cheap.