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This past week TiVo unveiled its online Season Pass Manager, available through your account on tivo.com. Adding to the existing features of being able to view your Now Playing and To Do lists online, the SPM lets you re-order, copy, and delete the Season Passes on your TiVos from your web browser.

This can particularly be helpful when setting up a new TiVo (letting you quickly copy the SPs from your old box to the new one) or for easier mass-reorganization (say, during the new Fall TV season) without having to endure multiple “please wait” screens doing it on the TiVo directly.

In my brief testing, when I copied a Season Pass from my old original Series2(which has no HD channels) to one of my HD boxes, the SPM automatically selected the corresponding HD channel, which is neat. If I copied a show that aired on multiple channels, the SPM prompted me to select which channel I wanted to use:

Unfortunately, WishLists, manual recordings, and Guru Guides aren’t supported in the SPM so if you use any of those they won’t appear online. Thus the order shown in the browser might not exactly match what’s on your TiVo. For example, I have “dummy” auto-record WishLists (ARWLs) on my TiVo Premiere that I use to order shows by day in the Season Pass Manager (a tip I got from astrohip on the TiVo Community Forums) and those don’t show up in the SPM. So while the online SPM is cool, I’ll still be keeping all of my stuff documented in Excel.

Despite a few minor quirks (one time I couldn’t copy a Season Pass since the show wasn’t currently airing, and I had a few weird things happen while re-ordering), being able to manage my Season Passes online is a welcome addition to the TiVo service. It’ll be interesting to see if the development community comes up with any cool apps using this new feature.

Since I’m writing about TiVo, I might as well mention that Pandora internet radio was rolled out to the TiVo Premiere platform last month. You can now play your Pandora stations directly through your TiVo. I’m relatively new to Pandora but have been messing around with it on my iPhone and it’s impressive how well it matches my musical tastes just by creating a few artist-based stations. I still use Galleon to play my iTunes library and custom playlists through the home theater system (i.e., during a party or when I’m grilling in the backyard) but having another source of semi-random music (with minimal commercial interruption) isn’t a bad thing. Hopefully Pandora will be added to the TiVo HD and Series3 platforms as well.

Netflix on TiVo has been around for years but I only just recently became a Netflix subscriber and now have the chance to use their instant streaming on my HD TiVos, Wii, and iPhone/iPad. I guess this means I won’t be using Amazon’s Video On Demand service as much!

And finally, @tivodesign tweeted that the new 14.6 software rollout has begun for the TiVo Premiere. Hopefully we’ll see some more performance improvements in the HD menus!

That’s enough TiVo stuff for now!