IFC to Make Its First-Ever Scripted Series Available for Download by TiVo(R) Series2 Subscribers
ALVISO, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR), announced today the launch of a video download trial in conjunction with Independent Film Channel (IFC), enabling select TiVo subscribers to download IFC programming over broadband to their TiVo Series2(TM) DVR. The only television services provider for DVRs to seamlessly integrate broadband video downloads and telecast content, TiVo is using this new functionality to begin a series of broadband features that will be deployed to TiVo Series2 users beginning this fall.
The availability of the IFC programming will be promoted to trial participants through a TiVo Showcase. Once a TiVo subscriber chooses to receive the IFC programming, the shows are downloaded via a broadband connection. During the trial, IFC will make its first-ever scripted series, "Hopeless Pictures", "Greg The Bunny", and "The Festival" -- which will premiere August 19 -- available for download by TiVo subscribers in advance of their network telecast premiere. In addition to offering the full episodes of each series, IFC will package exclusive content, including outtakes and other unaired footage, for TiVo subscribers.
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