Television viewers have been reading the recommendations of local critics for years. Soon a subset of TiVo users will be able to automatically record a critic’s picks of The Chicago Tribune. TiVo, a leading maker of digital video recorders, is expected to announce on Wednesday a partnership with The Tribune that will deliver the recommendations of Maureen Ryan, the TV critic for The Tribune, straight to the TVs of users who sign up for the service. In March the company introduced downloads from YouTube and other Internet video. One in four households now own a DVR, indicating viewers are becoming more comfortable with the time-shifting abilities of the technology offered by TiVo and other companies. The recommendation service will be available only to the roughly 100,000 TiVo subscribers in the region surrounding Chicago. But Thomas S. Rogers, chief executive of TiVo, said in an interview that TiVo was in talks about similar partnerships with other print media outlets. The service, if extended to other markets, could create new relevance for local television critics, whose numbers have shrunk in recent years as papers cut expenses.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/technology/28tivo.html?_r=2&ref=media&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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