Web videos

A TiVo^® box is your all-access pass to millions of web videos, free music videos and thousands of professional and amateur webcasts brought right to your TV. In addition to YouTube, your TiVo box makes accessing the most popular, or your most favorite, video podcasts easy.

You can:

Download just one episode of a video podcast or get a Season Pass^® and all episodes will appear in "My Shows"
Watch new web videos every day
Search for your web videos using TiVo Search
Enter your own RSS feed URL to play your favorite web videos on your TV
Publish your own video podcast using the industry standard RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and H.264 video standards.^†

And, you can add TiVo Desktop software to get thousands more titles, from your computer to your broadband-connected TiVo box.

Free videos are available on the Premiere and Premiere XL, Series3 and Series2 platform from these popular providers.

† Additional free Internet video using RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and H.264 video can be viewed on any TiVo HD, HD XL, Series3^®, Premiere or Premiere XL. Free Internet video is available to any broadband-connected TiVo box.
*Note that Internet Video Customer RSS feeds are only available on any broadband-connected TiVo HD, HD XL, Series3^™, Premiere and Premiere XL. TiVo does not control the video content quality.

Internet video — custom RSS feeds

If you are looking for an Internet video podcast or channel that is not listed in one of the categories under the “Browse web videos” menu on your TiVo box*, you may be able to watch it using the new Custom RSS Feeds feature. On your TiVo box, go to TiVo Central > Video On Demand > Browse web videos > Custom RSS Feeds. The Custom RSS Feeds feature allows you to enter addresses of video podcasts published via RSS (Really Simple Syndication).

In order to use this feature, enter the URL of the podcast or channel in a format such as:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/rss/speeches.xml

If the podcast or channel you are entering has been previously entered by other users TiVo will attempt to auto-complete the URL as it is entered.

Not all video podcasts may work on your TiVo box. There are a wide variety of video publishing formats available on the Internet. Internet video podcasts and channels published via RSS are provided by their publisher or creator. TiVo does not and cannot warrant that any particular Internet video podcast or channel will work or continue to work on the DVR. For more information on how to make an RSS feed work on a TiVo box, please visit: Developer Corner.

If there is a particular RSS-based video podcast or channel you would like to see listed in the “Browse web videos” section of the Video On Demand menu on your TiVo box, please submit your request via the following form:

Request a video podcast to be listed in the TiVo directory**

*Note that Internet Video Customer RSS feeds are only available on any broadband-connected TiVo HD, HD XL, Series3^™, Premiere and Premiere XL. TiVo does not control the video content quality.

**TiVo reserves the right to choose which feeds are added to the TiVo category menus.