Move Your Media: TiVo HD : Prep the PC

By William Van Winkle , published on March 2, 2009 at 1:31 PM
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You can literally spend days exploring all of TiVo HD’s content partnerships, but let’s get back to business: moving your photos, music, and videos to your TV. The key to sharing your media with the TiVo HD—and to sending TiVo recordings back to your PC—is to go to www.tivo.com/desktop and download then install the TiVo Desktop application. Note that this is a free application, but it will only let you share audio and photo files. If you want to share your videos, you’ll need to purchase the Upgrade to Desktop Plus for $24.95. The single hiccup we encountered during this installation was a “Files In Use” pop-up advising us to shut down some running applications. We couldn’t actually close down the Print Spooler, Windows Explorer, or Windows installer processes, so we hit Ignore to move past these and the installation completed successfully.
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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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