Song playback works well enough. You can pause, rewind, skip tracks, and so on. There’s no eye candy to watch while music was playing, so once we had AC/DC’s "Dirty Deeds" album cranking away, we went in search of photos...and discovered that TiVo’s music playback stops the moment you back out of the Music area. So if you want to play slideshows from your PC with a music soundtrack in the background, bring a harmonica.

The William’s Photos area feels much like William’s Music, only now TiVo switches to a grid of thumbnails instead of lists. Again, depending on how you organize your media, this could mean a lot of scrolling right through endless pages of image previews. In general, though, we found the interface intuitive and friendly. Clicking on a thumbnail gives you a larger thumbnail preview along with metadata about the photo, the ability to rotate it, and the option to start a slideshow. We would have liked the ability to create a custom slideshow from multiple folders on the TiVo—as well as custom playlists for music—but this isn’t currently possible.