Comments on: TiVo Software 7.2 and TiVo Desktop 2.2 (for Windows) are out!

By: auryn29a

auryn29a — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:01:02 +0000

Ooh. I am so jealous. Or, I would admit to being so, if there were such a confirmation.

By: jlindquist

jlindquist — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:54:30 +0000

it just takes a lot more work on the Mac.

No.

By: travisd

travisd — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 03:21:28 +0000

Argggh…. Still doesn’t seem to deal with mapped drives for file storage. I have a BSD file server and use that for storage space for the windows PC. I’d love to just point the Tivo desktop software at the mapped drive but it complains about it.

Note that it’s perfectly happy though sharing the MP3 library that’s on the fileserver (at the same mount point no less) so I don’t think it’s a permission issue…

By: unteins

unteins — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:01:55 +0000

Well Hooray and Pass the Beer Nuts!

I hope they get it out soon, I need to pull some stuff off my Tivo to send to my brother who is serving overseas in the Marine Corps.

By: megazone

megazone — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:45:36 +0000

I’ve talked directly with people at TiVo. Unless they lied to me, they have people working on code for Mac.

By: unteins

unteins — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:41:20 +0000

Curses foiled again!!!

I do hope that by working on it you have first hand knowledge that they are in fact writing code and have things working in some way.

I continue to be disappointed that they can’t get the Tivo Desktop working for Mac….

By: megazone

megazone — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:13:50 +0000

Well, they had also started the early roll out before the announcement there are people who already received it.

And the fact that there was an Open Beta is public knowledge. But if anyone was *in* the Open Beta, it would in inadvisable to admit it.

By: megazone

megazone — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:12:32 +0000

Actually the TiVo Desktop doesn’t do anything with HME. HME is an interface on the TiVo itself that any number of different applications can talk to. You need neither TiVo Desktop nor Galleon to use HME – there are other applications out there, see http://hme.pvrblog.com/ for many.

By: tarzxf

tarzxf — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:10:31 +0000

HME front end mainly, Galleon’s a resource hog.

By: megazone

megazone — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:07:41 +0000

‘Galleon-like’ in what way? Galleon does a LOT of stuff TiVo will likely never put in any of their official releases – they deliberately publish the HME, etc, protocols to allow for 3rd party vendors to make fancier things.

If you mean the TTG/TTCB capabilities in TiVo Desktop for Mac – I don’t know the timeframe but I do know they are working on it.

By: tarzxf

tarzxf — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:56:48 +0000

Any word and when Galleon like capabilities will be available within the desktop software?

By: trinsf

trinsf — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:15:53 +0000

Sooooome of us might have already had 7.2. *cough* Not that I’m confirming anything, since if there was a Tivo Open Beta, it had a hearty NDA.

*grin*