TiVoToGo… Just What I Want!

One of my TiVo-using friends forwarded on a link to me today to a TiVo survey regarding the forthcoming TiVoToGo feature.  TiVoToGo is a feature that would allow users to transfer recorded shows/movies from their TiVo unit to their computer.  Once there they could take it with them on a laptop, burn it to :DVD:, and—hopefully—edit the video as needed.

In order to be able to use the transfered video on your computer, you’ll need to use a USB “key” to unlock it.  This, of course, is done to help prevent people from just sharing their recorded shows/movies with the whole world and that’s perfectly fine with me as long as it doesn’t unduly prevent me from doing what I need with the content; specifically, editing out the commercials and then burning to DVD for my own use.

This is a feature I would love to have and I’d definitely get their “Home Media Option” in order to have this.  Things would just be so much easier for me if this were possible.

Posted Monday February 23, 2004 in TiVo and DVR by Chris Curtis

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Comments

i just dont like any of the ideas of tivo… having to pay to record tv? a usb key? that rather makes me mad… no one cared when it was VHS… i would much rather have a free dv recorder or use my tv capture card… i just cant see paying a monthly service to record tv… thats ass.

By Greg Ferrell on February 23, 2004 at 09:02pm link

It’s a bit more than just a recorder, bro.  You might want to investigate TiVo a bit deeper, or better, find someone that has one and go use it. wink

By Derek Jones on February 23, 2004 at 09:21pm link

I’ve got both (TiVo and a TV-capture card on my computer using the Snapstream service) and let me just say that TiVo kicks freakin’ ASS!!

It sounds hokey and cheesy when people say that they don’t know how they watched television before they got TiVo but it is 110% correct.  Seriously.  I’m constantly reaching for a remote to pause or rewind TV when I’m at someone else’s house.

By Chris Curtis on February 23, 2004 at 09:56pm link

Futurama’s opening sequence the other night had the phrase at the bottom:

Hey, TiVo…Suggest THIS!

By Derek Jones on February 23, 2004 at 09:58pm link

Im aware of all it does. Ive looked into it when my money was more stable. Pausing live tv must kick ass indeed. But for certain i wouldnt get it unless the only thing you had to subscribe for was the suggestion recorder. I can see no other reason to pay a monthly fee. However, adding an export tool would make it far more worth your while.

What i would like to see would be something for your computers tv program that accepted vcrplus codes.

By Greg Ferrell on February 24, 2004 at 06:21am link

Well, now that you mention it, I do find it odd that there are no manufacturers that have made a vanilla DVR that has the same limited functionality of a VCR.  With or without pausing live tv (don’t see why they would leave that part out).

By Derek Jones on February 24, 2004 at 09:19am link

You are not paying for the suggestion, you are paying for the interactive tv guide with discriptions with almost everyshow on tv in north america

By Jim on May 22, 2004 at 03:34am link

Greg,
TiVo is a lot more then you described.  Besides most people are not as technically compitent as you appear to be.  I’d like to see my Dad setup a mythTV.

With TiVo you turn it on and everything just works….

Alex
http://www.tivoblog.com
http://www.raianofamily.com

By Alex on August 14, 2004 at 08:58pm link

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