Yahoo, TiVo Team Up to Blend TV, Web

Yahoo, TiVo Team Up to Blend TV, Web

Users of Yahoo's TV page will be able to click on a record-to-TiVo button
directly from a television program listing to remotely schedule recordings.

Holy moley, is that freakin' cool. If I'm reading this right, and if I were at a friend's house in NY and could tell my tivo in CA to record a show, it might just finally convince me to buy a Tivo.

[Update: Om Malik points out that this was already available via AOL, and also that DirecTV systems will be incompatible. I don't use either, so when I buy a TiVo I'll just make sure that stays true...]