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[Tech Talk] There’s been a bit of a fuss recently over an article where TiVo CFO Dave Courtney appeared to say that there wouldn’t be any Mac support for TiVo To Go because of cost. This of course has the Mac users up in arms and screaming for heads.
Some slightly related:
[Engadget - www.engadget.com /] First look at TiVo Desktop 2.1 >: A few weeks ago we got Engadget amigo Dave Zatz to check out the beta for TiVo Desktop 2.1 for us, and now that the final version has arrived we figured we’d ask him to take a second look and tell us what changes they might have made (oh, we should mention that TiVo Desktop is still for PCs only—a Mac version of TiVo Desktop is still years away). Here’s what he found:
[Blogography] Erasure: Erasure After going through a mile of bubble-wrap to get all of the fabulous Blogiversary 2 prizes packed up (just waiting for the T-shirts!) I thought I would update my Mac G4 Cube to Tiger and watch a little TiVo and a couple of NetFlix DVDs.
[Valley of the Ignorant] How-To: Podcasting, Podcatching, and Making New Feeds: The term podcasting plays upon the terms broadcasting and webcasting and is derived from the name of the iPod portable music player, the playback device of choice of many early Podcast listeners (though podcasting is not directly associated with Apple's iPod device or iTunes jukebox software.) Podcasting is similar to digital video recorders (DVRs) such as TiVo, which let you record and store TV programs for later viewing. Podcasting differs from DVRs in that it is mainly used for audio content (though it can be used to pull any kind of file, including software updates, pictures, and videos.) - Wikipedia entry
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[TiVoBlog.com] No TiVoToGo On The Mac?: According to PVRBlog and Obvious Diversion, it looks as though TiVo isn’t going to release a Mac version of TiVoDesktop anytime in the near future. While I am not a Mac user, I understand the frustration that many Mac users are expressing. On several occasions, TiVo has suggested that a Mac version would be released in the near future.
[PVRblog | TiVo, ReplayTV, and other PVR news and reviews] TiVo CFO: No TivoToGo for Mac OS X Due to Cost: admitted that it isn't in TiVo's plans to release a version of TiVoToGo that will work on the Mac: "We... that TiVo was going to use Microsoft's version of DRM on windows, I knew a mac client would be non-existent or very far off, but up until now TiVo officials have stated that mac support was always right
Posted at May 09, 2005 12:57 PM
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