TiVo Greater China has entered into an agreement with PacificNet iMobile to market and distribute TiVo products in China.

TiVo already had a limited presence in Taiwan, but PacificNet iMobile will distribute TiVo PVRs in major cities including Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. If we're lucky, that means more hyper-kinetic Chinese TiVo promotional videos like this one, released last year:


No word on when TiVo will roll out its expansion or what models will be available.

[via Engadget]

The YouTube phenomenon is certainly making for some interesting business arrangements. It seems like every "old guard" media company is either striking deals with YT to make sure their content is legally shown on the service. But now that Google is in the picture, it seems like companies are banding together to fight the online behemoth and create their own product. Some companies have done both.

Take NBC, for example. Last year they struck a deal with YT to create a channel for them to place legal clips of their shows on the service. But now, they've decided to join forces with News Corp., the owner of the FOX network, to create an online video site to show TV shows and movies from both companies. The networks will leverage their content partnership deals with Yahoo, MySpace (owned by News Corp.) and our corporate benefactors at AOL to distribute and link to the videos. This LA Times article goes into the details.