TiVo, best known as a television recording service, wants to be known as a content aggregator as well. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the company is making a number of Disney films available to broadband subscribers. The yet unnamed titles will be brought to TiVo users through relationships with CinemaNow and Jaman. TiVo has been offering studio flicks through Unbox, Amazon.com’s video-on-demand channel, for months now.
By providing users with more entertainment options, TiVo hopes to lure customers away from other, less expensive DVR services offered by cable and satellite providers. DVRs have reportedly penetrated more than 36 million U.S. homes, while only 3.6 million homes use TiVo.
CinemaNow currently distributes such Disney titles as Dumbo, The Fox and the Hound and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. TiVo users will be able to select movies on their television sets, mobile devices or computers and download them to their TiVo hard drives through the CinemaNow and Jaman services.
