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October 14, 2004

Gizmodo: A few more TiVoToGo Details

Everyone's dying to know when TiVoToGo is coming out, and the folks at Gizmodo also got to corner a TiVo rep and got a few answers.

The gist is that it'll be released sometime after November 1st, and you'll be able to transfer shows and burn DVDs, but with some DRM attached. Hopefully you'll get unencumbered DVDs that work on all players and hopefully it'll work on macs as well, but heavy windows media player DRM makes me think it'll be windows-only.

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Just wanted to post something weird I found. At 4 a.m. this morning, I awoke to find my TiVo playing one of their feature update "commercials." The ones with the attractive brunette touting new TiVo features. This commercial was describing a new 40-hour TiVo box with a built-in DVD recorder for $499 + $100 rebate. At the end of the commercial, she said to see www.tivo.com/dvdr for more information. The weird part is that the link doesn't work and I don't have anything on my TiVo menu to watch that commercial again. It just starting playing this morning and then went back to live TV when it was done.

Man, now I need to get a TiVo for my TiVo so I can catch its secret 4 AM updates.

Weird, huh? I assume they are going to add it to the TiVo menu in the next couple of days.

UPDATE - http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5409950.html

You can see the model at Humax's Web site: http://www.humaxusa.com/

Since no one has mentioned it explicitly, from the look of the commercial the DVDs are ordinary and can be played back in any DVD player (you do get a TiVo-esque interface for playback). There doesn't seem to be any DRM going on. Nice.

Guys, The Humax recorder is not TiVo-to-Go. Different beast. There's no networking-to-computer involved and therefore no chance of propagation via internet, which is why we're seeing units like this one and the Pioneer pop-up. TiVo-to-Go is about sending the videos from a networked Series 2 to a computer on the local network for playback or burning on a DVD-R device.

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