“The video iPod isn’t the first portable device to play video, but it is an iPod and that seems to make all the difference. I think it will be a watershed in portable video–finally making it mainstream. TiVo apparently can’t ignore it either: today they announced that they will add support for creating iPod ready video to their TiVoToGo software. The new features will also be able to sync TiVo programs with the iPod. TiVo will also add support for the Sony PSP. To date, TiVo has only supported portable video players that no one actually owned,’ Phil Windley blogs for ZDNet.
“The new features won’t be free. You’ll have to pay TiVo a fee to turn it on to pay for licensing fees, etc. I’d gladly pay a one-time fee if it made the transfer convenient. TiVo will also watermark the video (presumably with the unique Media Access Key associated with your TiVo) to trace programs that leak onto the ‘Net. That doesn’t bother me either,” Windley blogs. “What does bother me is that in likelihood TiVoToGo won’t appear on OS X anytime soon. Earlier versions of TiVo Desktop ran on the Mac, but newer versions do not–presumably some squabble over competing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) schemes.”
Full article here.
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Solution: get rid of your tired ol’ Tivo and get a Replay! DVArchive has allowed me to download shows to my Powerbook for YEARS!!
Ser-prise, Ser-prise, Ser-prise.
Tivo is lame!
“Solution: get rid of your tired ol’ Tivo and get a Replay! DVArchive has allowed me to download shows to my Powerbook for YEARS!”
Exactly. The reason I bought a Replay over Tivo in the first place. No hacking or waiting for “official” vaporware to get my shows to my Mac — just get a freeware program and download from Replay, then watch/burn/etc. Simple.
They need to offer it at fast food restaurants. “I’d like large fries and my TivoToGo.”
TiVo will have a fun time with Apple’s lawyers and engineers if its software enables people to connect directly with an iPod without using iTunes.
Does TiVo even have a dual tuner, HD-recording model yet?
TiVo posted a job looking for a Mac software guy a couple months ago. I applied for the job, but I never heard anything back… and the job has still been unfilled.
Come on, TiVo, hire me! You wouldn’t have to pay moving expenses, since I live in the same county (MW)!!
FYI, FWIW, Apple and TiVo had some deal a year or so ago which was cancelled at the last minute. Stacks of TiVos at each Apple Retail Store were pulled from inventory and shipped back just as they were to be placed out on store shelves.
Excuse me.
How do you get to the iPod without going through OS X ?
Magic Word = “standard”
as in GOD GIVE US STANDARDS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.
theloniusMac,
Apple’s QuickTime Pro for Windows includes the export to iPod option.
This will not be available on the Mac platform for some time. The announcement refers to the Windows version.