Teach Your TiVO New Tricks with the HME SDK

With the release of the TiVO Home Media Engine SDK, the TiVO isn't simply a standalone digital video recorder any more, it's a gateway to a massive convergence of information and multimedia.

by Laurence Moroney

March 18, 2005

f you aren't already a DVR addict, someday you likely will be! Being able to turn on your TV, push a button, and get a menu of shows that you want to watch—without surfing through hundreds of channels of junk—is a very pleasant experience. It really is TV on demand. TiVO, pioneers and ongoing innovators of this technology have recently released an open source SDK that lets you take the next step in innovating on their platform—the Home Media Engine (HME).

The HME is an extensibility platform for the TiVO unit that allows you to build applications to enhance it. However, at present it doesn't support the full DVR platform; unfortunately, the main missing part is the DVR functionality—meaning your applications can't interact with live video—so no program guide or TV show access for your applications yet. However, even with that lacking, there's still a lot left to explore.

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