BBC may act on Tivo error.

The BBC is reviewing the future of its two-year-old deal with personal video recorder outfit Tivo following last week's backlash when BBC 2 comedy Dossa and Joe was downloaded to Tivo users without their consent.The download was slammed as 'TV spam' by some viewers who were outraged as it enabled their children to watch a post-watershed programme. A BBC spokesman told Broadcast: 'Dossa and Joe should not have been used. We are reviewing the future of the service.'But Tivo, maker of a so-called 'intelligent' TV recorder which enables viewers to download TV programmes with ease and automatically records shows according to viewers' preferences, has insisted that it still intends to continue with unsolicited downloads to the UK's estimated 50,000 Tivo subscribers.Tivo Europe vice-president Andrew Cresci admitted that while the BBC 'trial' was a mistake, Tivo's ultimate aim was to offer TV channels a new distribution mechanism for exclusive content that they could charge for. 'It doesn't have to be with the BBC,' said Cresci, who also has deals in place with broadcasters such as Channel 4, Sky and UK Gold.He added that downloading programme trailers and exclusive content was much more established in the US where Tivo currently has the bulk of its 422,000 subscribers, and that viewers had shown a strong interest in being sent previews of upcoming programming.Last week Tivo posted first quarter results which revealed that it had lost $25.8m (#17.7m) despite adding 42,000 new subscribers in the US and UK.