TiVo Adds Movie Tickets, Photos to Offerings [USA Today]

TiVo announced the introduction of a suite of broadband services that will allow subscribers to use their TVs to buy movie tickets, share photos, check local weather and traffic, listen to podcasts and play games. TiVo’s interactive services partners include movie-ticketing service Fandango, Yahoo Photos and podcast-streaming service Live365. 300,000 of TiVo’s 1.3 million stand-alone subscribers have connected their DVR to a home networks and will have access to the new services, but will not be available to the 2.7 million DirecTV TiVo subscribers. 28% of the people who buy DVR service directly from TiVo have a home network, up from 12% a year and a half ago.