Move Your Media: TiVo HD : TiVo Meets PC

By William Van Winkle , published on March 2, 2009 at 1:31 PM
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We made the initial mistake of thinking that our photos would now be listed under Music, Photos, and Showcases—and they are, just not where you might first suspect. The Photos area lets you interact with photos you’ve uploaded to services such as Picasa and Photobucket. This is good stuff but not what we’re immediately after. Keep scrolling down. After setting up the Desktop application, our TiVo HD automatically recognized and initiated contact with the PC, resulting in two new entries in this area: William’s Music on WILLIAM-PC and William’s Photos on WILLIAM-PC.

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TwoDigital 03/05/2009 4:56 PM
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I had and loved my original TiVo for several years. As the author mentions, there are a lot of good features and the online ability has come a long way since the original v1 and v2 TiVo added the networking features.

The two most annoying things to me: (1) there's no way to control or even pass-through DVD or BluRay playback through the device. If I want to watch movies, I better have 2 HDMI inputs on my TV and I'll need to dig out the TV remote again to switch it (and a third remote from the BluRay player.) (2) you can't play your own media on a TiVo... it only plays something that a TiVo records or something you've downloaded from one of their partners.

Moving to a low-profile Vista Media Center fixed both issues for me (as well as giving me the two CableCards that an upgraded TiVo HD would have given me.)

redhat 04/18/2009 5:49 AM
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I like all kinds of media player that I have some of them with me all day , they can give me much pleasure , I like them very much!

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