Make Your Mark: The Insignia™ Blog

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Yesterday, it was reported in the San Jose Mercury news in part that Best Buy and TIVO are entering a partnership that includes "exploring adding TiVo software to Best Buy's store-brand televisions..." We are excited about the possibility of combining the TiVo experience with our Insignia product line to offer our customers high quality  and affordable solutions for easily browsing and finding the ever increasing amount of content available on the internet.  At Insignia, we have been experimenting with a lot of services connected to the TV and other devices for a while now.  And it is clear that more and more customers will begin to do the same thing.  But it is also clear that an affordable, well-designed and  simple solution is not yet available for mainstream customers whose primary entertainment system starts with the TV.  Pandora and Hulu, for example, are two services that that are being widely used.  For now they are being primarily accessed through the computer and mobile phones.  CrunchGear commented that "The HDTV brands of Insignia and Dynex probably need something to help them stand out against the big boys  of Sony, Samsung and Panasonic. I don't know about you, but an embedded TiVo would sway my buying decision."  While the TiVo and Insignia teams  begin exploring the possibilities, we would also like you to help us understand all the possibilities.   What are your thoughts?  How do you see the Internet and TVs coming together? What applications do you care about? If you could have one feature on a connected TV what would it be? 

 Scott Burglechner, Insignia's Director of Brands and Marketing 

Nigel Waites, Insignia's Director of Engineering and Technology Platforms   

CrunchGear http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/07/09/best-buy-and-tivo-get-in-bed-hdtvs- with-built-in-tivos-are-con... 

San Jose Sun Mercury News http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12788859?source=rss 

New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/technology/companies/09tivo.html 

Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/09/tivo-and-best-buy-alliance-to-yield-c o-branded-dvr-tivo-softwar/ 

TiVo http://tivo.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=395   

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Message Edited by Matthew-INSG on 07-16-2009 10:18 AM

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NOW that these TVs are out, I bought the "SMART TV" Insignia 42" expecting a choice of smart tv apps like the samsung platform or the countless ones on Blu-ray players. It only comes with a very limited TiVO interface that has no guide, just the annoying the TiVO sounds. It shows the current program you might be watching...It comes with Netflix, YouTube, CinemaNow, and Pandora. I wish it were more like other smart devices and I could download future apps. Getting ready to take this back because I doubt it will see updates because its an inhouse brand and its very buggy just with its basic features. GIVE ME HULU PLUS and I'll keep it. Looks like I'm going to take it back and going Samsung from SEARS, their SMART TV lines are on sale there and the 46 inch Samsung SMART TV with tons of apps(Hulu Plus, VUDU, Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, etc.)...beware of this TV, it crashes on a regular basis and is slow to respond.