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Nov 21 2005

TiVo announces plans ToGo iPod… but not Mac

Associated Press is reporting that TiVo will be expanding its video recording service so users will be able to transfer recorded television shows onto Apple new video iPods. The enhanced TiVoToGo feature being announced Monday will also add more copy-protection measures to discourage possible copyright abuse that would anger Hollywood.

Some tech-savvy owners of the new video-playing iPod have already figured out on their own how to sync TiVo shows with the portable players, but the process involves video format conversions that many consumers would rather not tackle. By adding support for the MPEG-4 video format, TiVo hopes to make the process easier and capitalize on the popularity of the iPod.

Now before you get too excited, it is important to note that the transfer process from a TiVo Series2 set-top-box to iPod is facilitated through a Windows PC. No Mac client for this process has been mentioned at this time.

UPDATE: When asked about Mac support for this feature, Jim Denney, TiVo’s vice president of product marketing told MacCentral, “We hope to have something in mid-2006….I would prefer to underpromise and overdeliver in this case. We haven’t set a date but we’re actively working on it.”

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