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TiVoToGo For iPods and PSPs
BushCheney08 writes "According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, TiVo is expanding its TiVoToGo service to allow recordings to be viewed on video iPods and PSPs. Files will be transcoded in real time and will include digital watermarks to try to cut down on piracy. The service begins beta-testing for select subscribers today, with a widespread rollout scheduled for early next year. An AP article is also available at Forbes."
FU Tivo.
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Seeing as TiVo hasn't even bothered to make TiVo Desktop compatible with Tiger yet, I'll take this report with a grain of salt.
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It only took me about 3 hours of work to skim through the HOWTO, order the parts from NewEgg.com, put all the parts together, and pop in a KnoppMyth disc I burned myself. Of course, I actually read all the HOWTOs before just getting in my SUV and driving myself down to CompUSA to drool all over the unsupported TV-in and TV-out devices. You're* mileage may vary.
* Since you cannot read a HOWTO, I'm assuming that you think this is the same word as "Your," which is the correct word to use here.
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Well, you can't really blame Tivo if wireless networking is slow. They have slowly been adding G support, but the problem is, all of the wireless G devices that keep on changing chipsets (quielty). Also, remember with wireless, (B for example) which is 11MBps, its a shared 11MBps, so if you are transfering to a machine also on wireless, you are instantly down to 5.5MBps. Using wired ethernet, its better than real-time for medium quality video. Keep in mind, it is already doing some level of transcoding when transfering clips from Tivo computer, so it makes sense that transfers to iPod would not be too much worse.
No, I can't blame Tivo for the wireless speeds but it still surprises me that 50% of Tivo users are utilizing this particular transfer method.
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Keep in mind, it is already doing some level of transcoding when transfering clips from Tivo computer, so it makes sense that transfers to iPod would not be too much worse.
I'm sure that it won't be much worse but with the transfers already being greater than real-time any additional time spent sucks
We get a news story about a group of mysterious stormtroopers breaking into the Tivo headquarters and slaughtering its executive board.
I mean, didn't the MPAA just force them to allow remove-deletion of content at will? I can't imagine that promoting copying of saved tv shows will sit well with the cartels.
This is pretty easy to do on my Replay TV. I have put a quite a few shows on my ipod video already. Keeps the wife busy on long car trips.
Dvarchive to grab the shows from the Replay TV and then use one of the many free converters to change the format to IPOD friendly.
It makes sense that they would support OS X. The old TiVoToGo relied on Windows Media DRM which was unavailable on the Mac. The tech to make this new watermarking method available on OS X would be trivial. The files themselves *must* be compatible with the Mac if they are to play on the iPod. There's no way TiVo is getting around that.
Also TiVo Desktop *is* compatible with OS X 10.4.2 and 10.4.3 (I've heard but not confirmed 10.4.4 as well). There was an incompatibility with 10.4.0 and 10.4.1, but the later releases of Tiger worked well. The installer gives a false "failed" message, but it does install and it does work very well (better than 10.3.x).
It should also be noted that the CEO of TiVo is a Mac user. They very much wanted to provide Mac support for TiVoToGo, but didn't want to take the legal risk of allowing shows to be transferred without any DRM. Considering Apple won't license their DRM and Windows Media DRM isn't compatible with the Mac, TiVo had little choice but to release for Windows only and/or develop their own DRM method. It looks like the success of the iPod has convinced TiVo that it was worth developing a watermark method that would make the files compatible with the iPod, and as result, the files must be compatible with the Mac.
The only question remains is whether TiVo will provide Mac software that *pulls* (or pushes) the files from the TiVo to the Mac. If they don't, there are plenty of ways of getting around it, but I can't imagine TiVo wouldn't dedicate the couple of hours to develop this software on the Mac.
Another device that'll record to PSP video is the Neuros Recorder2.
It doesn't have the wide array of Tivolike features, but if you just want to convert analog video to digital for your PSP, this should work well.
It depends on which series 2 Tivo unit you have. The first gen series 2 boxes (the AT&T branded ones, and the 60GB (TSN beginning with 140) were USB 1.1. The 2nd gen series 2 (40/80/140 hour), "nightlight" Tivos, and everything else are USB 2.0. Tivo has slowly been updating its software to support the USB 2.0 boxes (to support G, I suppose)
"DirecTV tivos never even supported TivoToGo in the first place. The whole idea terrifies them."
It isn't that DirecTV is terrified by the process due to legal implications; its because DirecTV's parent company - News Corp. aka "Fox" - owns TiVo competitor NDS which does not have a similar option. NDS has been slow to market with just about every platform they've developed, and Rupert Murdoch is using DirecTV as a means of making his investment in NDS not look like a foolish mistake. If TiVo-To-Go and the other Home Media features were enabled on all DirecTV branded TiVos, who would seriously sign up for the NDS DirecTV DVR model? The only things going for the NDS model is that it has a 90 minute live tv buffer and it can display Caller ID info on the screen for incoming telephone calls.
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"The 1 reason to move to the US (TiVo) just got even hotter"
TiVo is now in Canada officially. Just thought I'd mention that.
"Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
You don't need Tivo2Go to download shows from your Series 2 Tivo, you don't event need to mod it....if you go to 'https://tivo:@/nowplaying/index.html' you can download all the shows on your Tivo...Unfortunately, they come down as .tivo files. These files are basically mpegs with an annoying wrapper around them. I use a program (via Virtual PC :-( ) called "Direct Show Filter Dump" to scrape the wrapper off and leave with with an mpeg. It works pretty well, but still requires access to a PeeCee, well, sort of...
If anyone knows of a utility to scrape this off in the Mac natively, give a shout. I've tried ffMpeg without any luck, although it is still a very useful program.
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