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TiVo users will get access to a slew of free and pay-per-view movies via the broadband connection on the set-top box from the end of this month. And at the beginning of next month, TiVo will be sold as a bundle with Internode internet access, with TiVo usage "unmetered" - or excluded from users' download caps.
Customers will be offered a TiVo box, ADSL2+ connection, TiVo wireless adapter and a wireless broadband modem for between $79 and $99 a month on a two-year contract.
Internode users will be the initial beneficiaries but the ISP is inviting other broadband providers to unmeter TiVo content as well.
Internode chief executive Simon Hackett said the process would be low-cost and "technically trivial" for other ISPs, as all current and future TiVo content would be hosted on Internode's nation-wide "content delivery network".
Robbee Minicola, chief executive of Seven Network-owned Hybrid TV services, which is TiVo's licensee in Australia, said the TiVo movie store to be launched at the end of this month would be powered by Blockbuster and initially contain between 60 and 100 movies. |
