http://www.tivo.com/4.9.19.asp
Anybody try it out yet? I can’t wait to get home.
Arrgh! I’ve got a Direct TV unit with TiVo, so I can’t do it. Curses!
Don’t get too excited.
From here:
Bolding mine.
So basically, you can transfer TiVo stuff to your PC, play it on your PC, and burn DVDs for backups. But you can’t, for instance, burn a show onto a DVD and give it to a friend to watch.
Better than it was, but still not all that great.
This is why I like my semi-new Pioneer DVD player/burner with Tivo. I can Tivo anything and then burn it right onto DVD in the same unit. I can also take stuff that’s on videotape (old home movies, movies on video), upload it to the Tivo, and burn to DVD.
I like my player. I hesitated buying it because I read some people complaining about bad pixellation problems, but I haven’t really experienced them. I record everything at Medium and don’t have the problem at all.
Karen
I’m really new to the whole recordable DVD scene, having just gotten a DVD±R drive for my PC and a Humax TiVo DVD burnder for Xmas…
How can you have a DVD that won’t play on a DVD player?
It’s a matter of formatting. To play a DVD in a DVD player made for TVs (as opposed to the one in your computer), the DVD must be formatted a certain way.
The TiVo formatted DVD players will play in a computer, using special software. They will not play in a DVD player attached to a TV.
It’s the same thing as data-only CDs and audio CDs. You can play an audio CD in your computer, but you can’t play a video game that comes on CD in your CD player that’s attached to your stereo system. The TiVo system formats its DVDs in a way that a standard TV based DVD player doesn’t recognize.
The word from TiVo is that they will be rolling this out to units slowly over the next few weeks. There’s a priority sign-up list, and they assure us that the people on that list will indeed get the update ahead of the general population, but it might be awhile. They are going to roll it out to random TiVo’s here and there slowly at first to gauge the amount of support this update will require… once they have that info in place, the priority sign-up people come next.
As for the DVD burning, that capability won’t even be available until mid-January – it’s dependent on Sonic’s MyDVD software being released…
Sounds good to me. Even if I can never (legally) burn it to a playable DVD, and they keep it restricted it to non-PPV content, it’s still a free, useful feature.
I’ve signed up to be on the priority list, but I imagine it’ll be a few months before the new software finally arrives.
FYI, at this point this is PC only. It does not support Mac OS X.