TiVo Desktop 2.4 for Windows Preview Release

Posted on Thursday, February 22, 2007 by MegaZone

A preview release of the coming TiVo Desktop 2.4 for Windows is now available for download. If you have a Series3, this includes the promised HD Photo viewer. Photos are now converted to 1280×720 for the S3, instead of being converted to SD resolution (I think the old photo app was 640×480).

2.4 also includes auto-transcode for other video formats into MPEG-2 for the TiVo. The details state that Windows Media (.wmv), QuickTime (.mov), MPEG-4/H.264, and MPEG-2 videos are supported. This feature does require a TiVo Desktop Plus key.

This is a preview release, which puts it somewhere between ‘beta’ and ‘final release’. You can always remove it and reinstall 2.3a if you have problems.

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Amazon leaks Slinglink Turbo

Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 by MegaZone

Gizmodo is reporting on an ‘oops’ by Amazon that exposed a new Sling product. The Slinglink Turbo looks like a new powerline Ethernet adapter that uses the HomePlug 1.0 Turbo standard to support 84Mbps traffic over power lines, as opposed to 14Mbps supported by the old Slinglink. And the new units are physically similar in design to the Slingboxes. One box has a single Ethernet port, which provides the connection to the home network, the other has 4 Ethernet ports to connect to your devices. I’d still like to see Sling support a USB WiFi adapter, like TiVo, but this is a nice improvement.

I’m currently sitting in Jupiter, FL (visiting my parents), watching L&O: SVU from my Series3 TiVo in Worcester, MA. I setup a Slingbox Pro before I left. :-)

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TiVo lowers one-year rates

Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 by MegaZone

TiVo appears to have lowered the one-year pre-paid rate from $199 to $179, and the monthly rate from $19.95 to $16.95. See the pricing plan page. The up-front cost on the Series2DT appear to have gone up – $99 for 80-hours and $199 for 180-hours.

Picked up from ZatzNotFunny.

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A little TiVo humor

Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 by MegaZone

The Order of the Stick isn’t one of the webcomics I normally read, but a friend of mine forwarded me the link to this one and told me I must read it immediately. You’ll see why. :-)

The Order of the Stick has some fun with TiVo, I mean ‘Teevo’. :-)

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A TiVo Tour video

Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 by MegaZone

There was recently a TiVo promo about careers at TiVo which included a tour given by TiVo Shanan – and now she’s posted it on YouTube.
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