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Tivo Content Download Service ready to release?

Chris Davis writes:

Got a service message from Tivo last night with the title 'An Important Message on Privacy from Tivo' which sounded boring, but I read it anyway. The interesting part is the third sentence of the second paragraph:

'For this notification, the updates [to the privacy policy] pertain primarily to the addition of new functionality that will enable TiVo subscribers to download content to their Series2 DVR.'

I dont really care about the privacy policy updates - I already assume somebody can see every little thing I do with my tivo. But 'download content to their Series2 DVR' ?!? Yowza! I just hope the download TO the tivo isn't as stupid slow as download FROM the tivo is...

Hmm, that sounds pretty cool if it's true that users will be able to move video to their TiVo for playback. I would guess it'd require an application to transcode your own video to TiVo MPEG2 format and send off to your TiVo, and perhaps a new version of the TiVo desktop is coming to make that happen.

update: Dave Zatz passes along the offical TiVo site explanation for the policy change.

by Matt Haughey August 3, 2005 in TiVo

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