TiVo Announces 'App Free' Video Network; Targets Cord-Cutters With New Antenna-Only DVR

TiVo announced a new video network said to make it easier to find content across live TV, DVR and online streaming services, along with two DVRs. The TiVo Plus network, coming to TiVo customers in the “coming weeks,” delivers live and streaming channels, movies and TV shows to viewers in “an app-free environment” in a way that makes them easy to find, said the company Tuesday. Categories are presented alongside TV and subscription services subscribers already use, it said. TiVo partnered with Xumo, Jukin Media and other publishers to make channels such as TMZ, Outside TV Plus, PowerNation, FailArmy, Unsolved Mysteries, Hell's Kitchen, Food52 and Ameba for launch; others will follow from Gannett, Loop Media, Revry, Newsy, Tastemade, Latido Music and Mobcrush, it said. New Edge DVRs from TiVo include Dolby Atmos, and, for the first time, Dolby Vision HDR. The Edge comes in two versions: the 4K Ultra HD ($399), designed to work with HD antenna or digital cable, it said, and an antenna-only version for cord-cutters at $349. The antenna model has a 2 TB hard drive for up to 300 hours of HD recording and four tuners; the cable version has the same storage but six tuners. Service plans are $7 monthly, $70 annually or $250 lifetime for the antenna-only model and $15 monthly, $150 annually or $550 lifetime for the cable model, it said.