Move Your Media: TiVo HD : Search and See

By William Van Winkle , published on March 2, 2009 at 1:31 PM
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Hit the TiVo button on the remote to return to the TiVo Central page. The first of eight listed items here is the Now Playing List. This is not like the Now Playing item on your iPod. The Now Playing List is also your queue and holding area for saved items. Let’s say you’ve been dying to watch Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video. Use the remote control’s arrow pad to navigate down to Music, Photos, and Showcases. Hit the Select button located under the arrow pad. There are two ways to get your Thriller on. First, you can go to Music Videos from Music Choice, then select the Search for a Video link. This brings up an on-screen keyboard. Use the arrow pad and select buttons to spell THRILLER. Sure enough, a hit comes up for Michael Jackson: “Thriller.” (You could also find Thriller listed under Genre > ‘80s.) Arrow over and select this. You’ll see some metadata info for song duration, rating (TV-14 in this case), and genre. Pressing the remote’s Info button will add artist, title, and copyright restrictions. Finally, go to the bottom of the page and select Request this video. The second method, also available within Music, Photos, and Showcases, is to use TiVo Search. Currently in beta as of this writing, TiVo Search is a more global interface that can currently scan through TV listings, YouTube, Music Choice, and Amazon Video On Demand from one query. In the future, expect TiVo Search to span even more of TiVo’s content areas.

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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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