We will see how long Microsoft continues to get away with this but I hope it’s for a long long time.

With the difference in price, a pc dvr BETTER have a leg up! It better have a HUGE leg up.

How can I have any faith in a reviewer who can’t even get his network working correctly?

Also, it’s going to take hours to render an mpeg file in any app that wants to re-encode the video, weather the file is from a tivo or a cable box or a simple capture card.

There are apps out there that will create a dvd file set without re-encoding, some are even free- or donation-ware.

Be very wary of the opinions of the ill-informed, no matter how pretty or important their blog page appears.

And there’s the problem… I am in no way opposed to purchasing yet another new dual-tuner, DirecTV, TiVo Series 2 player (assuming they ever release one), but given that there’s no software for the Mac yet, and that they could start tagging all my favorite shows as “non-transferrable” at any point in the future, what’s the use? Let’s say I buy a TiVoToGo capable player and Mac software is released, but then ABC, NBC, and CBS refuse to grant TiVo transfer rights for any of their programs… what happens then? 80% of the shows I’d want to transfer would no longer be available, and I’d have spent the money for nothing.

This is progress? All it’s done is forced people to come up with new ways of circumnavigating a system of roadblocks to getting the convenience we should be able to have in the first place.

B speeds aside, I do think its mindboggling that TiVo didnt include some type of G support with this roll-out.

Its hard to understand why G support wasnt rolled out to support HMO and multi-room viewing…

Does Dave travel with his VCR? I have never in my life been next to someone on a plane with a VCR and TV on his lap. Ive actually never seen anyone leave their house carrying a VCR.

And Im surprised that it isnt more obvious to you Thomas why TiVo would develop something specifically targeted at its stand-alone customer base exclusively – because TiVo realizes that over the long term, the more customers it can port from DirecTV to stand-alone, the better.

It should be interesting to see what happens to MSFT if they dont develop more stringent copy-protection mechanisms over the long term.

However, not having a dual-tuner box in the market is an unforgiveable mistake that has cost TiVo dearly in the short-term.

Personally, I think their time would have been better spent developing a stand alone dual tuner unit or a stand alone HDTV unit, both of which are promised future developments at this point.

2. It doesn’t work for DirectTivos not for technological reasons, but b/c DirectTV has choosen for it not to work. It, along with HMO, could work on DirectTV units, but they don’t want it too. Your issue is with them, and not Tivo.

3. If it’s taking 5 hours to transfer a half our or even and hour show, something is wrong with your network. I’ve seen reports of people, over wifi b networks, transferring 1/2 hour programs in under a 1/2 hour, or at about real time if at best quality. Remember, these files are HUUUUGE.

Although I do agree that not having an ethernet port is a mistake, and not having full g support is a mistake too. But it’s hard. Remember, when you buy an adapter in the store, it comes with a disc. You use that disc to load the driver on your computer. For tivo, it would have to download the drivers (for each and every single adapter) with is quite difficult.