Tag: TIVO

TiVos are smart little pieces of hardware, but by design can only play TiVo-encoded video files, which is a shame. But if you've ever wanted to do more with your TiVo, you can. Will O'Brien over at our sister site Engadget has penned a great how-to on making your TiVo serve up video files from any networked computer. The keystone of the tutorial is TivoServer, open source software that masquerades ...

Product Description SnapStream's Beyond TV product is a Windows-based Personal Video Recorder (PVR) similar to TiVo or Microsoft's Media Center PC television functionality. It allows you to take any Windows PC (that meets the hardware requirements) and use it to pause and rewind live television, as well as schedule shows to be recorded based on a number of different schedules. The Beyond TV ...

Over at the TiVo community there's a cool hack to enable an undocumented feature in TiVo Desktop for Mac OS X.  By default TiVo Desktop lets you share music, photos, and TiVo-recorded video between networked TiVos. With some command-line magic, however, users have found out how to make any TiVo-compatible MPEG video file show up on networked TiVos' Now Playing list. Cool. [Via Street Tech] ...

Does it really have to be so difficult? I seem to remember the CEO of Motorola waxing poetic early in 2004 about "liquid media," that elusive, end-to-end solution where you buy some content, and you almost effortlessly push said content to any device you own. And then we get the gotchas: as long as it's from Motorola, or as long as it's from iTunes, or as long as it Plays for Sure... Who ...

Our pal Todd Carter over at PVR Wire points us to TiViTunes, a nice little Windows app that lets you access your iTunes playlists from your PC-connected TiVo. It works by shuffling the playlists around on your hard drive so they're somewhere TiVo Desktop can see them. It's shareware, so until you pay $5 it's limited to the first five songs in each playlist. Thanks, Todd! ...

TiVo has released a public beta version of new software that will convert TiVoToGo video to formats playable on the iPod and Sony PSP. The software will automatically transfer your recorded TV shows to your iPod or PSP while you sleep, which is a blessing because apparently the transcoding takes awhile—up to twice as long as the video itself. The beta is free but when the final version is ...