

– Ma- TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced TiVo® subscribers can now watch video content from the Web directly on their television sets.

TiVo Gives Consumers an Easy Way to Download Internet Video Automatically to Their Television Setsįirst announced at CES, Season Pass™ functionality applied to web video now availableĪLVISO, Calif. As of today, TiVo users can grab hold of the latest version of Desktop (Windows only, we're afraid) and "enjoy a broad range of web entertainment available directly from their TV." More specifically, these customers "can choose web videos downloaded on the home PC using web browsers, RSS video clients such as iTunes podcasts, or other video download software to automatically copy to their TiVo DVR's Now Playing List alongside recorded broadcast and cable TV shows." In case you couldn't tell, Desktop Plus 2.6 can be downloaded today for a one-time fee of $24.95, but consider that waived if you're upgrading from an earlier version. Truth be told, there's not a whole lot here that you didn't already get a taste of in our hands-on at CES, but here's the skinny. compatible with all modern versions of Windows.Well, what do you know? TiVo's delivering as promised with this one, as Desktop Plus 2.6 is indeed going live in March - just like we were told back in January (and nary a week after TiVo promised YouTube access later this year).users can create a media library on the computer.contains instruments for transferring files between the TiVo DVR player and the PC.It is important to mention that TiVo Desktop is an obsolete program and no longer supported by the developer. Moreover, it is possible to change the amount of system resources dedicated to the app. Maximum cache size can be adjusted for improving the overall performance. To convert clips and movies to these formats you can download Hamster Video Converter.Īdvanced server properties are available. Please note that this utility supports only MPG and VOB video files. It is necessary to link the TiVo user account for using this functionality. You can enable the auto-transfer feature for quickly copying all added items to the DVR device. There are instruments for creating a media library from various audio files, video clips and photos. Additionally, the Apple Bonjour service is necessary for working with this program. Personal media access key is required for interacting with the DVR system. Users can run the included executable file to begin setting up the utility. There are tools for automatically adding transferred clips to your Windows Media Library. TiVo Desktop is a Windows software for copying movies, songs and images to and from the TiVo digital video recorder.
