Yahoo! fires up Meedio free DVR service in record time

Last week, we blogged about Yahoo!'s acquisition of Meedio Software (and its top notch team) and wondered a bit as to what the implications might be. 

Well, it didn't take the company long to pull the home media products into the fold and begin promoting Meedio grown offerings to the public. As Om posted last night, Yahoo! is offering downloads of the super cool computer based digital video recorders (DVR's) for free. 

You gotta love the price!

Thus far, the major news media has not jumped on this story and waxed on the implications for Yahoo! -- nor has it mentioned how this might affect Tivo and the cable companies who sell DVR boxes and monthly subscriptions with similar services. But this is only a matter of time as the service begins to attract more users.

Yahoo! has integrated the product into its "Yahoo! Go" platform which hints at where the company might be headed as it appears it is bent on controlling an ever broadening swath of its users' social and multimedia experiences even fostering the convergence of the two.

It also serves as one more example of the dynamic potential of the portal model which, when you think about it, is still only in its formative stages.