Decrypting .TiVo (TTG) files.

Actually I’m surprised it took as long as it did. Next someone will write a point-and-click DRM stripper I bet – just like for every other DRM system. It really wouldn’t be hard to do given the architecture.

TiVo promotional email…
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The government has a plan to help speed the arrival of digital TV and let you dump your cable box. It’s called CableCard, and it’s poised to come out from the wings, if not take center stage, in the cable TV market this year.

I’ve posted info about CableCARD in the past, but this is a decent beginners FAQ.

The free Sonic Trial to burn TiVoToGo transfers is out.

There is a beta version of JavaHMO 2.3 out which adds native support for TiVoToGo – meaning it can replace TiVo Desktop. It also has the ability to *automatically* transfer shows to your PC based on pre-set criteria. So you could have a PC with big drives snarf over shows as they’re recorded to auto-archive, etc.

I’ve been meaning to rebuild one of my old PCs, which has a RAID motherboard, into a media server – this seems like a good reason to bump that up my To Do list.