Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection points to a Reuters report that TiVo is planning to expand into Taiwan with TGC (TiVo Greater China) Inc.

“TGC Inc., a closely held Chinese company, will sell TiVo boxes and distribute the electronic guide and video recording service in Taiwan. Currently over 80% of households in Taiwan subscribe to cable television.

TiVo is a minority shareholder in TGC, which also has the right to sell TiVo service in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Macao.”

Hawk also comments on TiVo’s plan to expand into Japan, whose capitalist-style market may end up being harder to crack legally than that of the Communist bastion to their west.

Earlier this year, TiVo also announced that they would be expanding into Japan in 2006. Of course the hostility of the broadcasters towards PVRs in Japan is perhaps even higher than here in the U.S. The President of Japan’s National Association of Commercial Broadcasters Hisashi Hieda was recently quoted as saying, “skipping the commercials would amount to a violation of the copyright law.”