TiVo shows on your iPod

jacobdol · #1 November 21st, 2005, 03:15 PM

creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders, today announced an enhancement to its current TiVoToGo feature that will allow TiVo subscribers to easily transfer recorded television programming to their Apple iPod or PSP devices.
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**fryke** · #2 November 21st, 2005, 03:21 PM

On the PC _and_ the Mac? How big are 1h files? Are they MPEG-4 or H.264? Is it easy to handle, available internationally some day?

jacobdol · #3 November 21st, 2005, 03:32 PM

I'd imagine for both Mac's and PC's ... I bet it will be done via wireless connection as well as wired. TiVo supports Bonjour.

CreativeEye · #4 November 21st, 2005, 04:07 PM

pc only. no mac support.

terrible. maybe it'll piss steve jobs off and he'll finally green light a fully fledged dvr type thingy.

*edit* http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/11...php?lsrc=mwrss

**fryke** · #5 November 21st, 2005, 05:55 PM

And with the iPod 5G, it would definitely make sense... Although again: Apple sees the Mac as the hub of your digital lifestyle, so that thing would probably not sync to the iPod directly, rather you'd get the videos from the DVR to the Mac and _then_ to the iPod. My idea would rather be that the DVR would save the videos in a format that already is good for the iPod, and then you could simply dock the iPod onto that DVR thing for a couple of minutes and have your video content "to go". Then again, if the DVR saves video in H.264 at 320*240, that isn't really a DVR quality to write home about, is it... But if it saves at higher resolution, re-encoding is needed which - as we know - takes too much time with QuickTime, even on a good Mac. Bah: Let Apple surprise us.

RGrphc2 · #6 November 21st, 2005, 08:10 PM

I heard about this TiVo thing this morning, makes me want to sell my 40GB 4th gen and get a 60GB 5th even more...and a tivo...

**fryke** · #7 November 22nd, 2005, 09:56 AM

and a PC in order to transfer the TV shows... Hmm...

And for me it'd mean to move to the USA also. Maybe it's JUST a little TOO much hassle for me.

mindbend · #8 November 22nd, 2005, 01:19 PM

I'm glad I have absolutely no interest in this, otherwise it sounds like I'd be frustrated.

Aren't there direct-to-Mac TV services where you could record programs on the Mac (I have no idea, though I gather you can on the PC)? And then you could just run an automated batch process on those files to prep them for iPod.