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Mac TiVoToGo is here!

zatznotfunny.com — OS X TiVoToGo is here AND it's built into Roxio's Toast 8 Titanium. It'll cost you $80, but you can burn shows to DVD (with TiVo GUI), convert and sync to iPods, playback on your desktop or notebook I've put an overview and a few screenshots up until I get my review copy in a few days. PS, The first 5000 who buy from TiVo get a free remote.

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  • UnseenLlama, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18What's more interesting to me about the Roxio homepage for TivoToGo is the new support for Blu-ray drives....

    From Roxio Homepage:
    http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html

    "Blu-ray Disc Support: Burn up to 50 GB - 12,500 music tracks, or 50,000 photos, or 4 hours of raw HD video."

    Maybe Apple will update their Macs tomorrow with Blu-Ray drives?

    • kajoob, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12Took them too long to get it to market. And besides, $80 for what Wintel users can do for free? Psh. Just use TivoDecodeManager....

      http://thebenesch.com/tdm/
    • bytebreeder, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6My TivoDecodeManager doesn't work for me. None of the files that it creates play.
    • kajoob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@bytebreeder

      Try VLC:

      http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

      or install the codec pack for quicktime

      http://www.jacknjake.com/2006/12/27/codec-pack-for-all-the-new-mac-users/


      Either solution will allow you to watch your tivo transfers.

    • gxcdesign, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1So you still need a video input box I take it?

      For the time being I'll just download the torrents...though I'll get Roxio 8, but I get that for free via Accomadations anyway
    • VesperDEM, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4So what is so exciting about a program that costs way too much money and doesn't even support a series 3 TiVo? Of course, nothing seems to support the series 3 yet. So, now that I have a series 3, all kinds of software is out there for the series 2.

      I have used TiVoDecode manager and it's pretty good. It's still in development and still has a few bugs to iron out, but over all, it's a great little free program to pull down shows recorded with the series 2.

      So, if you have a series 2 and want to get your videos off it, don't spend $80 or $100, just get the TiVoDecodeManager.
    • griz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4@Kajoob

      TTG for windows is NOT free.
      Still it's ***** that they bundle it with Toast. I have no use for Toast. Give me my TTG for $24.95 just like Windows users have the option to do.
    • MauiMac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My Life is COMPLETE! (Kinda')... Now lets see if iTV can top Tivo...
    • sniplam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1yipes that's hellagood..but it won't be free, so use democracy (http://www.getdemocracy.com) and freetube (http://www.freetube.us.tc) for now.
  • digggfan, on 10/12/2007, -32/+0http://www.myspace.com/911falseflagop
  • digggfan, on 10/12/2007, -32/+0http://www.myspace.com/911falseflagop
  • kidtwist, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I want TivoToGo on my Mac, but I have no need for DVD burning software. No thanks. I just want to be able to archive shows to the much larger hard disk in my Mac, and copy them back to my Tivo when I want to watch them.
  • JohnnyRad, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1this is a dupe of another digg announcing toast 8.
  • drlha, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17$80? ***** you very much TiVo.
    • Quix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As a Mac user, I'm sick of getting screwed by TiVo. Bring on iTV Apple, and please include DVR functionality so I can dump TiVo for good.

      I was even one of the eager suckers who paid $100 for the Home Media option. Yes, I've been a TiVo customer for a long time. All this waiting and this is what we get? An opportunity to drop ANOTHER $80?

      What a slap in the face.
  • derekknight, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0OK ... now let's see Duke Nukem Forever!

    /hell's warmin' up, folks.
  • stryfe137, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3imagine this within itv. that would be all i need
  • JaredRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm stuck on a stupid DirectTV Tivo... even though it's Series 2, you can't network it (and keep it working)...

    So this passes me by. :(
  • synt4x, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4So I had to pay $100 extra for my TiVo (Home Media option) to have this ability, and now another $80 so my computer can connect? Thanks.
    • Dakk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Wow... you must have been an early adopter of Tivo's Home Media Option. Everyone gets it free now.
  • madmac66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm interested only coz I have been looking at the home media networking options out there and not really sure what to make of it all. I'm interested in little bits of it all and just wonder how much crossover there is between products. Do I need several of them or do they all do pretty much the same thing. Slingbox, iTV, EyeTV, TiVo, macMini w/FrontRow, those iPod dockable things that play video on your TV etc... Any recomendations to the best solution?
  • peterjhill, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I run the windows tivo desktop using parallels (on my macbook pro). Then I use some software that converts the .tivo file to a mpeg2. I then use VLC to convert the mpeg2 to mpeg4 that I then watch on my ipod.

    saves $100. The only reason I would use the roxio software would be if it were faster to transfer the files. Right now, it takes 3 hours per every 1 hour of programming to transfer things off the tivo.
  • 21.0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This is gonna be so nice for HD content.
    • greerso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't think the tivo to go stuff works with the Series 3, so no HD.
  • habu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Went to buy it off the Tivo site (it redirects you to the Roxio store) and got a 404 error message. I noted on the message the following code for 10% off
    404SAVE10

    When i finally got to the page to order it the code worked so got the Software & Tivo Glo remote (first 5,000 orders) for the MacWorld/CES discount and 10% additional off for the 404 error came to $89 w/ shipping.
  • sassyjack, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Not to be a Windows hater, but TivoToGo was released in January of 2005, and it took almost two years to release the Macintosh version. The Windows version is free, and the Macintosh version costs, essentially, $100. People have dedicated huge amounts of time and energy for a workaround because TiVo couldn't get their act together for the minority of Mac fanatics that were (in the past tense) TiVo fanatics who are now BitTorrent, El Gato, and iTunes fanatics. Every time TiVo offered some amazing upgrade to TiVo Desktop for Windows users, Mac users grew increasingly frustrated and worked that much harder on workarounds. While Microsoft offers what seems to be a more compatible framework for DRM (and we all know how well that works), they also make products that essentially do the exact same thing as TiVo without the burden of actually waiting for television shows to air. Now, Windows users don't care because they have successful alternatives to TiVo, and Mac users don't care because TiVo doesn't care about them.

    Too much money, too many more successful alternatives, too late.
    • griz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3TTG for WIndows is not free. You need Tivo Desktop Plus which costs $24.95 to get Tivo To Go functionality.
    • audioscience, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1TTG for Windows is indeed free. I have Tivo Desktop version 2.3a running and I have never paid a cent. I've been running TTG since it came out in '05. Tivo Desktop Plus is strictly to transfer to an iPod, PSP, etc and that is what you are paying for. I have no need for that but there is a workaround for that too. Transfer to and from your PC is free.
  • rufo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You folks can pay for it for all I care... I'll keep using Dave Benesch's TiVo Decode Manager, which works fine and is completely free:

    http://www.thebenesch.com/tdm

    Although, it is nice to have an official solution, in case TiVo screws us over with a different DRM scheme later on down the line...
  • archer823, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Between TDM and VisualHub's Tivo Desktop System Preference Hack to publish videos from your Mac onto to your Series 2 Tivo, why do you need anything else?
  • totorototoro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Damn. I've been avoiding Roxio products as much as possible (got tired of all their company switching/product upgrading/yadda yadda on the PC side)...and now this?
    • Dakk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Like everyone else is suggesting... Embrace TiVo Decode Manager.
  • bysubmitted, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Get Toast alone for $51.14 shipped after rebate: http://www.fatwallet.com/t/18/691825/
  • angelp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2$80? I'm glad I keep a spare PC around...I just use free Windows software and download it to an external and watch it on my Macbook. That's pretty much the only thing I use a PC for at home.
  • jashspi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0pretty sweet! anyone know if the new directv hd dvr, hr20, will have a tivo2go type functionality?

    thx
  • TheRealStyro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmm. Nothing in there about an editor. I don't suppose they would include an editor so you can remove offensive content (advertising) before watching what has been recorded.

    Guess I'll continue using sagetv and a couple capture cards...
  • skaat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I don't get it. The last version already did this as part of eyeTV. And burning one takes FOREVER and requires lots of extra disk space and .... Just watch the darn show from your hard drive and then delete it! In the case where you want to watch it again, it is much cheaper to just buy a DVD of the show, and not have to scroll through the commercials, than it is to spend the time and money to burn one. Hard drive space is much cheaper any way to store those few great shows that you would want to watch over and over again. And then you also have to manage all of those disks, put them in racks, etc. Disks are on their way out for all of these reasons.
  • EggNerd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It's a shame this wasn't released 2.5 years ago. Back when Tivo was still relevant.
    • cbergeron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow, how in touch with the general population you are.

      Did it ever occur to you that just because you're a bleeding edge tech-nerd that the rest of the country isn't?

      Tivo is as relevant today as it was 2 years ago (probably moreso), because your average Joe and his mom and dad don't know how to configure a MythTV box from scratch.

      Just because Tivo isn't kewly, doesn't mean it's not relevant - not by any stretch.
  • crazyboy1121, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1WO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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