"TiVo Inc. pioneered digital video recording as a new way of watching television - when you want it. Now it could be TV where you want it, too. The long-awaited service feature called TiVoToGo, set to launch Monday, will give users their first taste of TiVo untethered.

No longer confined to TiVo digital video recorders in the living room or bedroom, subscribers will be able to transfer their recorded shows to PCs or laptops and take them on the road - as long as the shows are not specially tagged with copy restrictions. That's also the case for pay-per-view or on-demand movies, and some premium paid programming.

TiVoToGo will be an automatic, free service upgrade for subscribers who own standalone Series2 TiVo DVRs. It will not work for subscribers owning DirecTV-TiVo satellite boxes. Also, the technology will work only with computers based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP or 2000 operating systems, although a version for Macintosh computers is planned, TiVo officials said" [Via ABC 7]

Absolutely unacceptable.

Unbelievable! Have the development team take a field trip to an Apple retail store and then tell me why the finest most powerful Media platform in the computer business is basically being ignored by Tivo. There's no time line or even a suggestion of a release date. Working hard doesn't cut it.

AAC file support was supposedly being worked on hard for over a year now.

Look, the Cable companies are now offering set top boxes for $9.95. Tivo needs all the users it can get and they basically are abandoning the Mac community. All this build up, and it's.... sorry Apple. Windows Media 10? Have a nice day? We're working hard on that...someday. What!!!!

Newsflash: Broadcast networks are using Quicktime as a media standard for delivery to multiple platforms. Hello! You've got to come up with something better than market share BS. Try telling that to BMW & iPod owners.


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