TiVo Home Media Engine SDK

Here is a TiVo Home Media Engine SDK screenshot.

It is pretty cool-looking.

The HME is TiVo's object-oriented programming framework for writing add-on applications for the TiVo.

It opens up the TiVo so programmers can program it in Java. It looks like a really decent framework.

That sort of surprised me. I expected a mass produced consumer equipment programming API to be complex and weak.

It does not look like it is either of those things. Seems pretty nice, in general.

One thing that does look kind of complicated is managing resources. That sounds like it does take some effort and attention.

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