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Tivo Testing Internet Download Service
knarfling writes "Yahoo News writes that customers will soon be able to download TV shows to their set-top boxes via the Internet. There is even speculation about being able to download an entire season at a time. Right now there are only three shows from the Independent Film Channel available on Aug 19, but it is a start. Will other companies follow this lead, or will this die down after the hype is over?"
I read the Tivo community site from time to time. It's a comminuty which Tivo allows some employees to participate in. There were some rumblings from an employee of a super secret beta test a few weeks ago... and he was looking for beta testers. Perhaps this was it.
PCWorld did an article on how to do it... But there's also free software out there if you look. I use media hopper for spanish... There's OHUK you wanna learn british
Yes!
http://www.akimbo.com/
Can I get an eye poke?
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There's a movie service that has allowed you to download movies for quite awhile. The only downsides to MovieLink are that a) It requires IE/Windows and b) It's only rentals.
Still, I was able to watch Dr. Strangelove that way. Which is more than I can say for the blank stares at Blockbuster:
Me: "Do you have Dr. Strangelove?"
Guy Rep: "Dr. Wha?"
Me: "Dr. Strangelove, or How I learned to love the bomb."
Guy Rep: "Say what?"
Lady Rep: "It's an old movie." [checks computer] "Nope, sorry."
(Blockbuster guy continues with confused look.)
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HD TiVo has been out for a while now (from DirecTV). It didn't make sense to do a stand-alone until CableCard took hold (although CableCard is only available from one of the local cable companies). DirecTV controls the feature set on the DirecTiVo; TiVo would love to upgrade them all with networking but DirecTV doesn't want that.
It would be nice if they put some of their resources into fixing problems with Tivo2Go that make it almost useless instead of new features:h p?t=228168&page=2&pp=30
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.p
I really *tried* to be a big Tivo fan. And heck, the concept is darn good overall. But I went back to my home-brew MythTV box for a while.
... Tivo has far too slow of a network connection for such things as downloading live programming from the net! I couldn't ever get it to find my wi-fi 802.11g USB interfaces. Had to settle for an old Linksys wireless b interface, and it takes almost 45-50 minutes to download a single movie from it to my PC using "Tivo2Go". The same xfer would take only 5-6 minutes between 2 PCs on my LAN over my 100mbit ethernet connection. Why in the world didn't these boxes come with wired 10/100 ethernet RJ-45 ports on them? At least in their later revisions....
For starters, my Series 2 stand-alone Tivo suddenly died on me. It was fine one night, and the next day I turned on my TV to see a black screen with a line of text at the top that simply said "Unexpected CPU Detected!". (Huh? What CPU *were* you expecting anyway??) A couple reboots didn't fix a thing. Just got the intial couple splash screens followed by the black screen and odd message. I can only assume the CPU went bad in it?
Being out of warranty, I have to pay Tivo $79 to swap it for another unit. (Irritating, too, because plenty of people would sell me a used/working Series 2 Tivo for much less - but then my lifetime channel subscription would be lost, since they tie those to the *box*.)
But beyond all that
I am a Tivo subscriber, and I also receive the "Tivo Newsletter." In the most recent edition, which was sent last week, the following information was included:
But again, as I so boldly teased at the start of this Q&A, that's just the beginning! This fall, we'll be introducing a host of fun, creative, useful and just plain clever broadband features, including:
* Getting select TV shows and programming via broadband to your TiVo® box (Begging
does not become you... I will tell you more when I can!)
* Games, streaming radio, podcasting, and more.
Thus, it appears that they're slating to release it sometime this fall.
TV shows--yes OMG even complete series!!!!--have been available over the net for years:
http://www.thepiratebay.com/
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Usually, I'd agree with you. Tivo likes to announce things long before they're viable. However, this time, Tivo users are being invited to beta test it, which indicates that it's nearly complete. You can see for yourself here. Now, to participate, you have to agree to a NDA, and to some other terms. Other than that, however, it's relatively easy for people to participate in.
An AC calling me a liar and linking to a blank page. Try for yourself. See for yourself how many local Blockbusters carry it in my area.
Blockbuster is (usually) not the place to go if you want to find movies for more than Blockheads. (i.e. Recent releases.)
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You can also use TiVo to Go with the Orb free streaming system. Just go to this site to download an add-on to Orb that lets you stream out your TiVo files anywhere you can access http://my.org.com./ You can stream as Windows Media, Real Video or 3G if you're feeling like streaming TiVo to your cell phones. Kinda like a slingbox, but free.
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Yup.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for
And this shows that Japan, producer of most Anime-style animation, is a signatory of the Berne Convention, along with the US. Thus copyrights must be mutually respected across both countries.