TiVo Home Media Option for $59

TiVo's Home Media Option is currently on sale for $59 (a full review of the HMO to will be posted tomorrow)

Comments

[Tim]

I. will. not. explode. with rage.

sigh

I realize that when you wait, you often get the better deals as the manufacturer tries to sell slow-moving inventory...

But all I got from signing up early was the ability to use iTunes with TiVo for, what, three weeks before iTunes adopted AAC and rendered the coolest part of HMO essentially useless for anything recently added to my iTunes library.

Which reminds me, what up with AAC support on HMO?

[Matt Haughey]

I'm with you Tim, I just bought the HMO a few weeks ago for the full $99, and I'm also wondering how long until the HMO gets updated to provide AAC support.

My guess is that it won't happen, since Apple currently doesn't let you stream purchased music to other users on your network.

[Ron]

Matt:

It isn't technically true Apple doesn't let you stream AAC. I do it here at work all the time. But you have to authorize the target machine for the songs, just as if you had copied the files to another machine.

Not sure how that would work if you were streaming to a TIVO. Would they think of the TIVO as another computer or as a different kind of iPod, which doesn't use up any of your authorizations? Probably as another computer since you are streaming it and not just moving the file.

[Matt Haughey]

Oh right, Ron, I forgot you could do the authorization thing from other computers. It'd be nice if TiVo was considered another computer that could be authorized to play them, though it would require an outbound broadband connection in order to check the apple site.

[Justin]

AAC support may be on the way, or at least they're hinting that it's coming:

"Please note: Does not currently support AAC audio files"

The "currently" is what makes me hopeful.

http://www.tivo.com/4.9.4.1.asp

[rob]

Must. not. explode. with. rage. at. DirecTV... for not supporting HMO on the combo units, which I bought specifically for this purpose (before HMO came out and we learned that little detail.) Anybody heard any updates on that issue?

[karen]

Hiya I am looking to getting tivo for just my cox communication do you know who in las vegas sells those?!?!
Thanks so much.
Karen

[Matt Haughey]

Your best bet to try a local superstore like Circuit City.

[Steve]

I don't understand the whole PVR / DVR industry. They want us to pay for everything. Pay for the hardware, pay to record, and pay to connect to our home network. Replay TV had an outstanding product but seemed unwilling to let us set our own timers. Now they have included 36 months of service and jacked up the price to higher than the previous model with life-time service. This scheme must have come from the same brain-child that told the RIAA to start suing the consumers. All I want is a DVD+R(W), a large hard-drive, ethernet 10/100 and NO monthly service charge. Sony just released a promising model in Japan but I'll bet the same unit never makes it across the Pacific. Digeo's Moxi Media-center looks fascinating but is only available to the cable companies. Why won't they give us a choice? And why does HMO cost $99? It's just a software upgrade. There seems to be a major "Big Brother" approach to digital recording devices. My computer doesn't make a very good VCR but until there are some actual choices in the market it is what I will use.

[M. Frank]

gotta second Justin on the DirecTV not supporting HMO on the combo units..."Anybody heard any updates on that issue?"