TiVo Adding Music With Rhapsody Subscription Music Deal

TiVo will unveil Tuesday a deal with RealNetworks to offer its Rhapsody subscription music service on TiVo DVRs. It's the first step in a TiVo campaign to broaden its audio service and further differentiate itself from in-house DVR offerings by cable and satellite providers. "I like to think of (a TiVo box) now as a digital video receiver," says TiVo CEO Tom Rogers. "The idea we're building toward is, anything that's out there, from any source, you need TiVo to get it, organize it and make it fast and easy to be able to find it." Rhapsody, RealNetworks' joint venture with MTV Networks, gives subscribers access to about 4 million songs that can be played on their PCs any time. Under the new deal, they also will be able to listen via their TiVo to music selected with their remote and played through their TV or theater system. Rhapsody's basic service costs about $13 a month, $15 to also hear songs on certain portable music players. Users don't own the songs: If they cancel service, the music stops and copies stored on portable devices self-destruct.
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