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Dave Zat offers up a comprehensive primer to Tivo To Go. It covers pretty much all the common questions, with tips and links to helpful utilities. If you're just getting started with it, or wondering how it might work, this tutorial is a great place to start.
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Matt, many Tivo owners are reporting that the 7.1 upgrade has caused their Tivos to show 3-5 seconds of pixelization and audio dropouts during channel changing, along with significant menu slowdowns, and the need to press remote buttons repeatedly to get the unit to respond. Tivo's service responses have been lacking. First, denial. Second, "reboot and that'll fix it" - sometimes, yes, just as often, no. Updates and communications have been poor. This issue needs public attention to get Tivo to respond to the customer complaints, an item on your blog would be great. Thanks!
Posted by: Brad | February 11, 2005 at 09:42 AM
Dave's write-up on TiVo ToGo is really great. However, he states that "Nero 6 Ultra Edition has demonstrated the ability to load, edit, and create DVDs from the original .tivo files once Nero's advanced codec pack has been downloaded and as long as the Tivo Desktop remains open." I've been pulling my hair out for a couple of days not trying to get that to work. Maybe I've not got the "advanced" codec pack that he's mentioning or possibly I've just missed a step. I'd love for this to work, but my video in NeroVision Express 3 is heavily clipped and the audio is in short blasts and not synced. If anyone has gotten a tested method for opening, editing, and burning .tivo files with Nero, I'd love to see a post (here, or anywhere) about it. Sonic needs some competition.
Posted by: Jason Coleman | February 12, 2005 at 12:48 PM
I can verify that this works, however I had to first open the tivo file in Windows Media Player and select "save as". This file can then be recognized as a Video file by Nerovision Express 3.
Posted by: hexe98 | February 14, 2005 at 07:20 AM
In response to Brad's post, I export the .tivo file to an .mpg using the export button at the bottom of the NVE 3 "Make Movie" dialog and then use the resulting .mpg in a new "Make Movie" project. I have used this method several times with no problems. TiVo-To-Go Rocks, Sonic... doesn't.
Posted by: John | May 04, 2005 at 05:27 AM