TiVoToGo Now Available for Mac, and Nobody Cares

I think TiVo might have just leak some of the keynote’s news. If you follow the Read More link, click on the “Mac OS X users start here” link. You’ll see the following line: “Archive an entire season to Blu-ray Disc (up to 50 GB) or across multiple DVDs.” Macs don’t yet have Blu-ray players, or burners, in them. Will that happen tomorrow?

I think they might be talking about an external drive.

“Our recommendation: TiVoDecode Manager, it’s free!”

…and creates files that you can’t do much of anything with without recompressing them. If this new solution can create standard DVDs of the Tivo footage without having to recompress, then it’s the best news I’ve heard in months.

Yea, but TiVoDecode manager, cross compresses to MPEG4 and can make standard DVD files.

I think the nature of the .tivo file is it NEEDS to be re-compressed – hence making the free solution better then the $100 solution

This software by Roxio is completely different from the TTG for Mac beta that was shown about 6 months ago at some trade show. I wonder if TiVo ran in to some major roadblocks, gave up on it, then TiVo’s encryption was broken, so they quickly scrambled and hired Roxio/El Gato to build it for them quickly.

No matter what, it’s too little too late. I’ll probably be getting Toast 8 anyway, because I burn a fair amount of media, but I’ll continue to use TiVo Decode Manager. TiVo jerked around Mac users for way too long.