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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."
The US dollar is on the verge of collapse and all you people think about is your toys!
You people just don't learn.
TiVo: caters to advertisers moreso than it does TV watchers by supporting so-called "content protection."
Sony: Oh, you mean that company that sells rootkits disguised as music CDs?
Apple: They claim that they need to use "trusted computing" to protect their proprietary, closed-source operating system. They are scared of me actually using Mac OS X on computers I built myself. How hostile.
When I say Myth, you say TV. Myth! Myth! Myth!
MPEG output. Open source. Built on any operating system you want. MythTV is simply everything TiVo, Sony, and Apple are not.
I'm not Seth Finkelstein. I still speak the truth.
I don't think it matters. In fact it was probably a smart move. It's a tiny market... iPods didn't do well until Apple started selling them to the Windows people. Also developing for OSX has been no small feet. Just ask Adobe and Quark! Tivo was tinkering on going bankrupt a few years ago; adding OSX could have broken the bank. It costs allot of money to develop/support software on more then one platform when you have a program that is so specialized.
Apple changes their APIs almost every year, without much backwards compatibility for many of the apps. Now granted, Apples swears this last one (10.4) was the last time, but since 2000 they have done it 5 times! 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4. Again, they say that 10.5 will retain full backwards compatibility, but I'm not holding my breath.
TiVo's announcement comes as it faces stiffer competition from computer companies, cell phone providers and television networks that are scrambling to beam TV shows into any handheld device with a screen capable of playing video.
This is great news and I don't mean to be a troll but isn't it a bit disturbing that companies seem more focused on systems that promote vendor-lockin by controlling content?
Television is bascially a one-way pipe to a dumb terminal. I'd much rather see companies working toward bringing greater Internet access to these devices whereby consumers can shop for competitive content in an open market.
Just a thought.
is a joke for watching video.
"The sad part is that Apple Mac users will not be able to transcode the Tivo files for Apple iPods because of Windows DRM. I keep around an old Windows notebook just to covert Tivo files to AVIs so I can store them on my Mac Mini hooked to my HDTV. What a hassle. Tivo refuses to support Mac users and release a Tiger compatible version of their software [versiontracker.com]. Tivo is supposed to make my life easier by conforming TV to my schedule not to Hollywood's whim. Once my two Tivos die, I will never, ever give money to that stupid TV with legs and arms.
FU Tivo."
Explain please why it's Tivo's fault you bought a Mac.
Right...
How pathetic are you that you follow me from topic to topic and waste all your mod points at once modding me down?
My question was
Why is it Tivo's fault you bought a mac.
The correct answer is "It isn't"
Everything in your post could have been edited out.
How pathetic are you that you follow me from topic to topic and waste all your mod points at once modding me down?
I wasn't serious, AC pussy.
Whatever you say, Kreskin.