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January 27, 2005
TivoToGo
TivoToGo is supposed to allow users to transfer recordings from their TiVo's to their home computers. This sounded great until I realized:
1. No Mac support (even though TiVo Desktop for the Mac was always more robust than it's windows counterpart).
2. Unusable to those using wifi to connect to their TiVo.
3. Dependent on 3rd party software to burn to DVD.
TiVo has been in the news lately first with TivoToGo and the poor press it has received and secondly with the missteps with a potential deal with Comcast. In a nutshell TiVo is a great product with tons of enthusiastic supporters but opinions are changing quickly.
eHomeUpgrade | Poor First Impressions for TiVoToGo
Anyway for those who have a windows PC but need to burn TiVo content on a Linux box or Mac with a dvd burner, here are the instructions. This is for personal use only of course. Hopefully TiVo will release a Mac-native solution so I don't have to use VirtualPC as a hack.
Posted by beamz at January 27, 2005 3:39 PM