Move Your Media: TiVo HD : To Watch, Return To Now Playing List

By William Van Winkle , published on March 2, 2009 at 1:31 PM
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Here’s the confusing part. You might expect at this point that your "Thriller" video will buffer up and start playing, but no. You need to go back to TiVo Central and select the Now Playing List, where the video will show up after you’ve given it a few minutes to download to the TiVo’s hard drive. If you select multiple videos in fairly quick succession, you may not see them listed immediately in the Now Playing List. Music Choice music videos are just one example of the media partnerships through TiVo.
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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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