The Associated Press reports that Tivo has plans to allow customers to download tv shows from their Tivo set-top box to the Internet.
TiVo has struck a deal with the Independent Film Channel to transmit several of the cable channel's shows through a broadband connection as part of a trial program. Participating customers will begin receiving the shows next week, said TiVo spokesman Elliot Sloane.
Sloan confirmed that TiVo sent messages to its customers - later posted on the technology Web log Engadget.com - offering to transmit three IFC shows beginning Aug. 19, before they aired on the cable channel.
Here is an Endgadget.com entry on the Tivo web download plans and here is an Engadget post with pictures of the download service. Engadget says it will just be the Independent Film Channel to begin with and will expand to include other content at a future date.
