The idea that ‘Me TV’ would overtake ‘Must-see TV’ is getting closer, it seems, with the TiVo fix. It’s part of the new broadband-enhanced package where people can create or download videos on their computer, andmake them available to their friends who also use TiVo.

It works like this. You create a video about your vacation, save it in a TiVo folder on your hard drive, and the software converts it into  MPEG2 vido format. Then, TiVo will let you to send that video to your set-top box, and make it searchable by others on your ‘private network.’ They have to sign up for a ‘Season Pass’ for this.

Beyond showing off your kids to grandma, we could apply this concept to small businesses, or groups, opening up a new way for video file-sharing. Companies could set up their own ‘knowledge channels’ that would be available across their network.