Reason Magazine
- reason.com
- reason.tv
- reason.org
- Donate
- Site Search:
Reason on Facebook
Reason on Twitter
Reason on YouTube
Reason RSSGet Reason E-mail Updates!
Manage your Reason e-mail list subscriptionsadvertisements
Better and Better: Order Pizza Via TiVo
I squealed with joy when I read this (I really did. Ask the guys here at reason's DC HQ if you don't believe me): You can now order pizza from your TiVo.
From the press release:
TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), and Domino's Pizza, Inc. (NYSE: DPZ), the recognized world leader in pizza delivery, have teamed up to give broadband connected TiVo subscribers the ability to order pizza for delivery or pick-up, and track delivery timing, right from their TV sets using the TiVo® service.
Tell me that this quote from Rob Weisberg, vice president of precision and print marketing at Domino’s Pizza, Inc., doesn't make your heart overflow with joy at the wonders of the modern world:
"This is the first time in history that the ‘on-demand’ generation will be able to fully experience couch commerce by ordering pizza directly through their television set. You’ll see a television ad for Domino’s and you’ll click ‘I want it’ through your remote. In about 30 minutes, your pizza will show up at your door.”
Just in case you missed it, you can track your pizza from your couch.
Via Lifehacker
BDB|11.17.08 @ 5:27PM|#
"Just in case you missed it, you can track your pizza from your
couch. "
A truly amazing yet almost dangerous technology.
|11.17.08 @ 5:31PM|#
"Better and Better: Order Pizza Domino's
Via TiVo"
Fixed.
Domino's is not real pizza.
|11.17.08 @ 5:43PM|#
Since I'm usually on my laptop while watching TV anyway, I don't
see the one giant leap for mankind here.
It kinda reeks of "WebTV" actually.
[shudders]
|11.17.08 @ 5:45PM|#
So when will this start working for Vicodin and
Corvettes?
Why the hell would you want to order a Corvette? You'd have to get
your ass off the couch. What the world needs now is a La-Z-Boy that
flushes.
Doc|11.17.08 @ 5:46PM|#
As long as they don't have that new heinous 8 meat including
LAMB w/"Jim Beam Barbecue sauce" pizza Domino's is selling in
Australia w/optional puff pastry crust.
Just seeing it online made me throw up a little.
|11.17.08 @ 5:50PM|#
Although the pizza angle is new, shopping by remote isn't. In fact, TiVO is also partnering with Amazon to allow subscribers to buy product that is highlighted on talk shows. And, of course, TiVO is only one player--HSN and others are also experimenting with instant consumption via remote.
SpongePaul|11.17.08 @ 5:52PM|#
As long as they don't have that new heinous 8 meat including
LAMB w/"Jim Beam Barbecue sauce" pizza Domino's is selling in
Australia w/optional puff pastry crust.
Just seeing it online made me throw up a little
__________________________________________
come on doc, not adventourous. I would love to give it a taste! but
i do love to watch A. Zimmerman and his taste treats on tv. Try
everything once, then you will truley know if it is good or not! I
have eaten things around the globe that would make a normal
american hurl. food is different all over the world, and we do not
make the most of it in the states. I laugh when i hear about
someone starving lost in the woods, starving, really, unless it is
a dessert or in the dead of winter, food is abundant under your
feet in trees and such, one should never ever starve in the wilds
unless it is an extreme environ.
|11.17.08 @ 6:01PM|#
Domino's is not real pizza.
Exactly. Sorry, Katherine, but this is just not interesting to me
until I can order this through
my TiVo.
Doc|11.17.08 @ 6:09PM|#
SpongePaul,
I agree, I enjoy trying new foods all the time. I've had my share
of foods from 'Bizarre Foods'. I *like* Durian where as it made
Zimmerman gag. And I had these beautiful fish air bladders in Hong
Kong.
But cheap lamb and barbecue sauce seemed to a high a hurl factor.
When in OZ, I usually got the "Toni Pepperoni" (they have cute
aussie names for all the pizza's). And the Satyr they have in the
domino's commercials there is kinda hot.
What also ticks me off in the Aussie Domino's is that a "large"
pizza there is a "medium" one in the US. Rip off! That and one of
those delivered is $30AU. Double rip off! :-)
|11.17.08 @ 6:10PM|#
When I can order haggis with my television remote, I will know that the future has finally arrived. Well, when my haggis is delivered by a dude in a flying car, anyway.
24AheadDotCom|11.17.08 @ 6:14PM|#
TiVo: it's got electrolytes!
P.S. Reason is not just a corporate hack site that just constantly
refreshes BoingBoing and Nick Denton properties looking for
ideas.
Bingo|11.17.08 @ 8:07PM|#
You used to be able to order a pizza in Everquest II by typing "/pizza" in a chat window. However, this has even less buttons to press, so I think we can consider this progress!
|11.17.08 @ 9:26PM|#
I'm with you Doc, chain Pizza stores in OZ are rubbish. For me the slight inconvenience of getting proper Italian-style thin crust pizza from proper Italians is outweighed by the considerable improvement in taste.
|11.17.08 @ 10:25PM|#
You still have to get up to answer the door. I want it delivered straight to the couch!
|11.17.08 @ 11:19PM|#
I am on my couch now, on my laptop, reading this.
I can use this here notebook PC thingy and high speed internet
connection to order pizza from any pizze place that has embraced
20th Century pizza ordering technology.
Or I could use Tivo ( which I don't have but let's say I do) to
order from Dominos ( which I could also do from this internet
thing).
Revolutionary improvement there.
VM|11.18.08 @ 8:24AM|#
Epi - where is that from? looks tasty.
however ProGLib is right. We need take out/ delivery Haggis. And
the 80s pop band "Dead or Alive" has to deliver it.
"go 'way. batin"
.|11.18.08 @ 11:01AM|#
a "large" pizza there is a "medium" one in the US
Pizzas are not immune to the downsizing craze. A supermarket frozen
pizza is now the size of a dinner plate. Dominos boxes get smaller
and smaller. A two-pizza "special" is nothing more than two smalls
equaling what a large used to be.
thoreau|11.18.08 @ 11:29AM|#
Finally, an issue that can unite the Parents Television Council and the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
pistoffnick|11.18.08 @ 2:45PM|#
I haven't eaten Dominoes pizza since I found out who owned the company and what crazy things he did with his money.
gambypants|11.18.08 @ 4:36PM|#
ohmygawd, this has so much potential, and can potential make my blogging life that much easier. they need this for GOSUSHI.
Site comments/questions:
Media Inquiries and Reprint Permissions:
(310) 367-6109
Editorial & Production Offices:
3415 S. Sepulveda Blvd.
Suite 400
Los Angeles, CA 90034
(310) 391-2245