WRT Tivo Desktop, I have to say its somewhat maddening. I have it set up to copy over and transcode G3′s Attack of the Show, and (a) it only transfers some of the shows, (b) it always transcodes them when I’m using the computer, never in the middle of the night like I’d want it to, and (c) sometimes the shows don’t get added to iTunes. Works well enough that since I don’t have time to watch all of the shows anyway I get by, but it would be unacceptable under other circumstances.

Similarly, if I queue up a transfer (of Top Gear say, given that Season 11 just started) from my PC to the Tivo HD in our family room, and start to watch it while it is being transferred, most of the time I run into trouble. It stops transferring, some error appears on the PC in a popup window, and Tivo Server craps out. And if I try to cancel the transfer which is clearly hung, I can hang up my Tivo HD, requiring a power plug pull. Seems as though I might want to go back to transcoding these things myself like I used to do…

With all of this, I’m not interested in any of this “thru the computer” stuff anymore. The YouTube interface needs to be the way things work in the future, i.e. subscribe to h.264 podcasts from the Tivo directly. Download and watch them from there.

And there needs to be (a) a way to schedule TTG to run at night, (b) a way to limit the amount of disk space it can use up.