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TiVo to Mac Users: Buzz Off
jamie writes "Though TiVo's website still claims it's 'working hard to make the TiVoToGo feature' work on Macs, its CFO just admitted otherwise. Bringing your recordings to your Mac to watch, he said, seems unlikely 'unless we find a way to record it under the current platform, and I don't think that will happen in the next few years.' Translation: no DRM, no content. Fortunately for Mac users, there are alternatives..."
Well then, I guess Apple has nothing to lose by rolling out its own box and iTunes-based service, as has been rumored. Some say the mac mini is a trojan horse destined to serve exactly this purpose.
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I think you're right, and that may be on the horizon, but many people want PVR now. Hence EyeTV -- am I missing something here, or does EyeTV replicate everything that TiVO offers? Why would someone buy TiVo over EyeTV?
Maybe TiVo should offer their software OR connections to their scheduling servers as a service. That way, you could roll your own PVR and then put the "TiVo OS" on it. They make money off subscriptions and are no longer beholden to the MPAA because since you're just using their front end and scheduler, whatever happens with the files once their on your HD isn't their legal issue anymore (because you sign an agreement to use their software responsibly, the EULA).
lets stop being coy... post a link to the page... as an AC if you wish...
Well, that's kinda ture, but with Apple's DRM on tthe songs purchased from iTunes, you can at least play them on both Windows and on the MacOS. And with not too much effort, you can play those songs on Linux.
With TiVo's DRM or whatever, you're still limited to playing them on only Windows.
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matter of scouring a few forums for command line tools, huh? Hmm the only command line tools I have found are for Windows, and those still require the directx security to decrpyt. Please enlighten us as to what native mac tools you use to decrypt the stream? :(
The dealdatabase and tivocommunity forums dont currently have mac native tools.....
I wish I was proven wrong here
John Susek
I think this is either a troll or the this guy is confusing .ty files with .tivo files. There are lots of resources for splitting .ty files for both the mac and Linux but as far as I know (and I've looked) there are none for .tivo files.
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