i.TV’s Fresh Trick
i.TV iPhone App is growing fast! i.TV is a nicely designed TV schedule app that does a lot. Aside from giving you a nice schedule grid, it also pulls descriptions, reviews and images from each show, YouTube trailers for any movie on TV, and allows you to bookmark individual shows, channels or genres to keep track of them individually. Oh, and it also finds nearby movie theaters for showtimes and trailers for current theater runs, too. Free. Isn’t that putting a smile on your face?
And it’s not enough. The already first-rate i.TV program schedule app has a fresh trick: a universal remote control framework that could finally turn the iPhone into the ultimate all-in-one clicker. To prove they’re serious about this, they’ve nabbed a pretty great first partner: TiVo. Now, that’s getting more interesting, right?
TiVo is a pioneer of the digital video recorder. It delivers your favorite television shows, movies, music, videos, and more to your TV. It’s your life, simplified. Now what happens if i.TV iPhone App & Tivo teams up? What a wonderful couple!
This means that TiVo HD and TiVo HD XL owners will be able to use i.TV as a full remote control. Yet still, while the prospect of a true all-in-one remote app is pretty exciting, hold yourself down for now because it’s firmly just a prospect. i.TV is simply offering a framework, not developing remotes themselves. So for now, just enjoy i.TV while we wait for updates of this exciting new concept. And if they’re serious about this, probably very soon we’ll get to actually experience this. In the meantime, check out this teasy video: