I was surfing YouTube and came across an interesting ad announcing the launch of Hulu Plus on TiVo. It appears that the ad was uploaded by the agency that created it, so it’s hard to tell what this means in terms of timing, but one tidbit that I was able to glean from the spot, was an announcement that TiVo will be giving away 1 free month of Hulu+ service when they launch it on their DVR. TiVo offered a similar promotion when they launched support for Rhapsody and while I ultimately didn’t turn into a subscriber, I did enjoy the opportunity to check out the service. The simple fact that Hulu makes their paying customers still view ads, kind of makes the service a non-starter for me, but if TiVo wants to comp me with backstage access, I certainly don’t mind taking a peek. While it’d be nice to see this launch sooner than later, at least some of the details are finally starting to leak out.

In related news, it also looks like the same ad agency uploaded a spot for TiVo’s iPad app to the site. Since TiVo announced on Twitter that this would launch by the end of January, it makes me wonder if both partnerships will be launched simultaneously. We’ll have to wait to see if this is the case, but methinks that we won’t have to wait long to find out.