“TiVoToGo lets owners of TiVo boxes transfer TV shows to their computers, including laptops. The content can also be transferred to gadgets compatible with Microsoft’s Portable Media Center format. TiVo is expanding that service by permitting shows to be encoded and transferred to Sony’s portable game machine, the PlayStation Portable, and to iPods capable of playing video,” Scott Ard reports for CNET News. “TiVo said beta testing will begin in ‘coming weeks’ for owners of newer Series2 boxes who also own a video iPod or PSP. By April of next year, all subscribers should be able to use the feature.”
Ard reports, “TiVoToGo does not support the Mac operating system, so this extension of the program also will not be available. A Mac version of the service is expected sometime next year. To recap: TiVo owners with a Series2 box who subscribe directly with TiVo and have a Windows-based PC and a video-capable iPod or PSP can use the service.”
Full article here.
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Oh, the good old “sometime next year” line, huh? Forgive us for not believing it until we see it. Long-time Mac users know that “Mac support coming soon” too often means “get lost Mac users, we can’t bother to support you.” Hey, maybe TiVo will be the exception to the rule? We’re watching and waiting TiVo.
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For the last year I have used a ReplayTV, ethernet built in, then downloaded DVarchive. What a great program. Turns a Mac into a software ReplayTV. Off load shows to it to store for later use. Stream the shows back to the ReplayTV or to other Macs running DVarchive. But best of all, convert the existing video file to whatever form you want. Oh, it takes about 20 minutes to download a 1 hour show from the ReplayTV box to the Mac. And I’m doing this on an old G3 300MHz box.
Forget Tivo.
Mike
I heard from the people who make “MediaShout” a live media/motion slide program often used in churches, etc that they’d have a “Mac version soon”…first I heard it in 2004, then 2005.
More of the same?