Gizmo Lovers Blog » downloads http://www.gizmolovers.com TiVo, Slingbox, Android, Blu-ray Disc, and whatever other tech I feel like blogging about... Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:16:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Download TiVo Wallpaper For Your PC Or Machttp://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/04/10/download-tivo-wallpaper-for-your-pc-or-mac/ http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/04/10/download-tivo-wallpaper-for-your-pc-or-mac/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:25:47 +0000 MegaZone http://www.gizmolovers.com/?p=2393 Here’s a fun little item that TiVo Blog picked up on. TiVo has downloadable desktop wallpaper for your PC or Mac for you to show your TiVo love.

]]> http://www.gizmolovers.com/2008/04/10/download-tivo-wallpaper-for-your-pc-or-mac/feed/ 4 Pioneer jumps into the broadband fray with SyncTVhttp://www.gizmolovers.com/2007/11/20/pioneer-jumps-into-the-broadband-fray-with-synctv/ http://www.gizmolovers.com/2007/11/20/pioneer-jumps-into-the-broadband-fray-with-synctv/#comments Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:50:04 +0000 MegaZone http://www.tivolovers.com/2007/11/20/pioneer-jumps-into-the-broadband-fray-with-synctv/ Continue reading →]]> Sync TV, Inc, a subsidiary of Pioneer Research Center USA, Inc, launched a private beta of their ‘Unlimited Download’ service for TV today, and they sent me an email about it. They’re joining an increasingly crowded market, but there are a few things that could set SyncTV apart. It is based on open standards and works on Windows PCs, Macs, and Linux PCs, with plans to work on TVs and portable devices in the future. There is DRM – but it is an open-standards system known as Marlin. The entire SyncTV system is an open platform, allowing other vendors to implement support.

SyncTV claims the service will provide ‘home-theater quality’ downloads with quality as good as, or superior to, DVD. There will be programming available with 5.1 Dolby Digital Plus surround sound, and in high-definition when possible. There are plans to enable streaming of content from a PC to a DLNA enabled TV, and presumably other DLNA enabled devices. Personally, I’d love to see them hook up with TiVo and, if not enable downloads right to the TiVo, work something out so their software can wrap things in TiVoGuard (TiVo’s DRM used on TiVoToGo) so we can transfer downloads to a TiVo for viewing on a TV. Though I have a PS3, and that supports DLNA, so I’m set there. ;-)

SyncTV will be a subscription service, with content organized by ‘channel’. You subscribe to a channel for a ‘low monthly fee’, and you have unlimited downloads from that channel. Some of the channels may be existing TV channels – they give Showtime as an example. Some channels may also make content available on a pay-per-download basis. Content can be played back on up to five devices, including the PC on which it is downloaded. Once compatible portable devices are available, you’ll be able to specify up to ten portable devices as well.

If you’re interested in beta testing, sign up on their site. They also have a blog for product updates. (Hey, SyncTV, if it is a blog, how about some RSS love! Give us a feed!) They also dropped a press release.

]]> http://www.gizmolovers.com/2007/11/20/pioneer-jumps-into-the-broadband-fray-with-synctv/feed/ 0 Playing High-Def Downloads on your TiVo using a Machttp://www.gizmolovers.com/2007/11/16/playing-high-def-downloads-on-your-tivo-using-a-mac/ http://www.gizmolovers.com/2007/11/16/playing-high-def-downloads-on-your-tivo-using-a-mac/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:53:00 +0000 MegaZone http://www.tivolovers.com/2007/11/16/playing-high-def-downloads-on-your-tivo-using-a-mac/ Continue reading →]]> Reader Michael Alderete sent me a pointer to a blog post in which he details the process he uses to download high-def content via BitTorrent and than converts and transfers it to his TiVo for viewing, via his Mac. As he described it in his email:

The article covers installing and configuring TiVo Desktop software on your computer, downloading video from the Internet using Miro, converting it to a TiVo-compatible format with VisualHub, and transferring it to your TiVo for playback. Currently the instructions are Mac-only, but a reasonably savvy person could easily figure out how to use them on a PC, with slightly different software (pointers are given in the article).

Enjoy.

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