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TiVo to Go Released
SimCityHippy wrote to us with the news that TiVo has TiVo To Go. Right now, the To Go feature is supported only on Windows XP & Win2k; no word on whether the feature will be rolled out to OS X or WinME. It's also interesting to note that while they recommend Windows MP, VLC gets a nod as well.
I've been staring at my Scientific Atlantic DVR with the usb and firewire ports for a while just willing them to go live so I can transfer my shows.
Are there any products besides the Tivo that support transfering video over the network or perhaps via firewire/usb2?
Now we get to hear from all the folks that say Tivo sucks and how Myth and ??? is better. If you haven't actually used a Tivo for a week then you probably can't say.
The same goes for me I guess becuase I haven't spent any time with Myth of whatever else is out there. I just know that my Tivo works and it is simple enough for my parents to use it.
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upload bandwidth, we still can't watch our favorite programs remotely. Perhaps tivo2go will create enough demand for increased to change their tune.
I have a feeling that the burning to dvd option will be a big thing. Big as in a desired feature and as a big problem with the studios.
People pay big money for full seasons of thier favorite shows.
If anyone can just set their tivo, and spend 5 minutes a week burning it to dvd, the studios may take issues with that.
Then it should be dead simple to get it to work under Linux. The Linux VLC port is nearly flawless, and I love the idea of streaming video on a home network where if I don't want to hang on the couch with the laptop while doing school work or stuff for work at home, I can still watch some tube or just simply listen to the audio portion.
It will be interesting to see how good this is.
I think the easiest way to disable would be to create a manual recording starting a few mins before the show you want starts, then using the record extra time you could start at the regular time.
Then for assurance of if the program changes time create a regular scheduled show but place the priority so manual recording is ahead.
You would get the info for the first show, which is the only problem.
"Here's what I want - I want to be able to watch Tivo recorded programs elsewhere besides the family room. I figure here are my options:"
"Build MythTV box. Not gonna happen in my house, as I could never get away with having a noisy server sitting in the entertainment center..."
You don't *have* to put the "media center server" in the same room as the TV... you can use thin clients over a wired network like MediaMVP (quasi how to "thrifty pvr" article on my site)
People use modd'ed xboxes as the front end of their mythTV/other media/PVR backend.
That's just one approach... there's a couple others that are worth investigating.
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I just switched from DirecTiVo (Sony SAT-T60, dual drives) to a Replay TV 50x0 with Commercial Advance.
I was amazed by the quality of my DirecTiVo at the beginning. But, just as surprisingly, I am amazed that the Replay doesn't give a noticable decrease in quality (on my 32" analog TV). Medium quality on the Replay looks like local channels on DTV, and high quality looks as good as premium channels like HBO over sat.
The one downside is that I lose Dolby Digital 5.1 over Toslink by going to either standalone TiVo or Replay. On the upside, DVArchive lets me use any host that has a Java JVM as a remote scheduling and network storage station. Store all the pr0n on the linux box and all the PBS shows on the Replay.
And the $80 I am saving per month for switching to cable for Net and TV (and dropping the TiVo's phone line) really adds up. Any inconveniences are pretty much wiped out by that extra $1000 in my pocket over the next year.
I notice my series 2 Tivo is running version 4.0b, and the Tivo-to-Go software is installed in version 7.
I guess they just started rolling out the updates, and when I signed up on the "priority upgrade list" to get the upgrade sooner, I'm told that it may still be weeks.
Has anyone else gotten the newer software? Is there anything else new? I remember the version 3 to version 4 upgrade as being pretty big, perhaps going up 3 major revs will be better (I'm expecting versions 5 and 6 were just for different hardware than I have, though)?
If they do nothing else but eliminate some of the raw *wait time* when I'm managing the box ("Please Wait - this may take a minute" usually takes me anywhere from one to 10 minutes??), I'll be a happy camper.