Rhapsody and TiVo team up for good times in the home theater

Those RealNetworks folks are all about sharing these days, with Sonos, Sansa, iriver and now TiVo integration for their Rhapsody music service. TiVo seems like a pretty natural fit, and it sounds like TiVo and Real are doing it right, allowing access to the entire Rhapsody catalog from any broadband connected TiVo in the home. The functionality is based on Real's Rhapsody DNA API, allowing the TiVo to stream songs and flag tracks for playback on the PC. You can also access your PC music library from the TiVo box, but don't get too excited: Rhapsody and TiVo won't be rolling this stuff out until "later this year."

[Deirdre Menard @ Jan 9th 2007 1:02PM]

This is an interesting idea. I'm hoping that, as an existing subscriber to both services, I won't have to jump through any hoops or pay anything additional in order to use this combined service. IOW, I hope they're being intelligent about making things easy for loyal, existing customers.

[Trent @ Jan 9th 2007 2:11PM]

Good move Tivo, could you have maybe picked a partner with a worse reputation than Real? ....buffering tivo..... ....buffering tivo..... ....buffering tivo.....

[jerimiah797 @ Jan 9th 2007 9:44PM]

That joke is older than your mom