Comments on: New version of JavaHMO – with TiVoToGo support

By: bkdelong

bkdelong — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 13:30:05 +0000

I was just thinking about that the other day. That would rock if, while sleeping, I could get Tivo to download the new Jon Stewart, BBC News and other shows to my desktop. VERY cool.

By: megazone

megazone — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:44:02 +0000

You’re right. While you can transfer to *any* platform right now (just use a web browser if nothing else), the only platform with decryption support today is Windows – specifically 2k/XP.

By: benclark

benclark — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:45:18 +0000

Yes, Java is great in that respect — but the files coming from the TiVo still have a Windows-specific DRM attached to them, am I right? So, even though I can get the applet to run on Mac OS X, I probably wouldn’t be able to open the ToGo video files… Or am I way off base here?

By: wickerdotus

wickerdotus — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 02:27:38 +0000

I saw on the Tivo Community web site that a Linux version isn’t available yet, but a Mac one is. That is the great thing about Java applications. They should be platform independent..

By: benclark

benclark — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:49:24 +0000

Forgive me for not being entirely familiar with JavaHMO, but I assume that this support for ToGo is still Windows-specific, despite the app being ported to other OSes?