CozmoTV brings Youtube content search to TiVo
By Vivek | December 26th, 2006 at 11:00 am ET
Earlier this month CozmoTV finally opened its service to beta testers that brings Youtube and other internet video content to your TiVo. Co-founded by Alex and Jason, CozmoTV is based out of San Francisco has been a long-under development service that solves a very basic problem we currently have - Users being be able to search web and TV content from one single place. The new service from CozmoTV enables you to search web+TV video content, create your own virtual TV channels, view this aggregated media from various sources on varied devices like PC, TV, TiVo, iPod, and PSP, and also provide personalized media ratings.
CozmoTV’s web interface enables search for TV content located on Youtube and other Internet video sources, and in another few days provide you with TV listing information. Powered with all these sources, you can quickly pick your favorite shows and add them to your channel list that can than be accessed through any device you want. Or to save your precious time, let the CozmoTV community work for you and grab a high rated channel from the Cosmos community. Either way you get a highly targeted content as per your tastes without the need to worry about which device you need to view it on.
CozmoTV is very much in a beta mode right now with more features being rolled out currently. TiVo remote scheduling using CozmoTV, which was available before, is offline right now but should be available in the near future. They also working on providing a larger database of shows that can searched for and more robust platform. CozmoTV is definitely a cool service to lookout for.
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on January 3rd, 2007 at 6:40 am
Thanks for the coverage. We’ll be rolling out a bunch of new features over the next month. Stay tuned…
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