A quick note – Corel recently released an update for InterVideo DVD Copy 5, which has a number of updates, but the pertinent one is that it now supports TiVoToGo video, so you can use it to burn transfers from your Series2 to DVD. It also supports conversion for portable devices such as the iPod and Zune, as well as being certified for Windows Vista.
(The downside to Las Vegas – smoking. I’m allergic to tobacco.)
Something else PVRWire reported today.
This is more for the technically adept. You need to install Python, and it is still in a very early state.
How’s this for a chain? PVRWire is reporting that Gizmodo is reporting that Team Xbox is reporting that Dean Takahashi of the Mercury News leaked some details that weren’t supposed to be announced before CES. The report is that an updated XBox 360 will be coming out with an integrated HDMI port and a 120GB hard drive. But, more to the point, it will support an IPTV service for video over broadband and DVR functionality. Microsoft developed the IPTV platform used by several providers around the world, so they have the resources to implement this in the 360. Unfortunately, all of this went down while I was on planes today and it looks like both the Mercury News and Team Xbox pulled their stories. Which lends some weight to the reports.
So, we’ll see how much of this pans out over the next few days of announcements. Bill Gates does the opening keynote Sunday night, he may announce details there.
It looks like the TiVo Series3 will be getting more competition in the CableCARD market. News surrounding CES is starting to pop, and one of the first is this article in CE Pro. Niveus Media is releasing an external digital cable receiver that works with Windows Vista. It takes two CableCARDs, like the S3, to tune two channels at once. Like the S3 it appears to be limited to uni-directional CableCARD 1.0. The article also has some good general info on CableCARD use with PCs. In order to support CC vendors need the blessings of both CableLabs and Microsoft. And CC OCUR devices, like this one, may only work with Vista PCs from the same vendor.
I picked this up from PVRWire
TiVo’s Director of TiVoCast Operations, E. Stephen Mack, posted an entry in his blog about the troubles with TiVoToGo on MacOS.
On a semi-related note, I’m in Las Vegas. I’ll be here all week for CES, and I’ll be posting whatever TiVo & DVR news I encounter.
