TiVo Announces Availability Of RCA Personal Video Recorders With The TiVoô Service

20-Oct-00

TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of personal television, announced a relationship that will result in the introduction of RCA personal video recorders with the TiVo Service. THOMSON multimedia (NYSE: TMS), manufacturer and marketer of RCA, PROSCAN and GE consumer electronics products plans to introduce TiVo stand-alone recorders through RCA Digital Entertainment Centers at RadioShack stores beginning in November.The recorders will offer 20 hours of recording capacity and sell for a suggested retail price of $299. With a current $100 rebate offered by TiVo, the RCA recorder could be available at a local RadioShack retailer for as low as $199. The RCA recorders with TiVo will be offered at RCA Digital Entertainment Centers at RadioShack, the ""store-within-a-store"" retail concept that showcases the latest in digital home entertainment products from RCA.The state-of-the-art personal video recorders will provide current and future functionality of the TiVo Service. Functionality includes the capability to record a favorite program every time it airs with Season Passô, and teaching your recorder viewing preferences with TiVo's unique Thumbs Up and Thumbs Downô buttons. TiVo helps viewers find programs that match individual interests with TiVo exclusive content, programming and interactivity such as TiVo Takes, a weekly interactive video magazine and interactive previews that let the consumer record favorite programs directly from the previews for those shows.""This relationship represents a significant endorsement of TiVo's technology and personal television service. We are proud to have THOMSON multimedia's powerful RCA brand and RadioShack, one of the nation's largest and most innovative retailers provide the TiVo Service to consumers."" said Mike Ramsay, President and CEO, TiVo. ""Our combined efforts will bring even more choice to consumers, who will now have access to an even wider range of products from which to access TiVo's Service.""""The RCA TiVo product is further validation of Thomson's commitment to offer the consumer the latest in personalized television service and technology,"" said Thomson's Enrique Rodriguez, Senior Vice President, Multimedia Products Worldwide. ""We will continue to seek better and more convenient access to the broad range of interactive products and services presented in the new world of digital home entertainment.""For more information about TiVo, visit www.tivo.com.

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