TiVo To Exchange Recordings With PSP and iPod
TiVo has announced an expansion of its TiVoToGo service to include PSPs and iPods.
The move will be welcome news for TiVo users who own one of the popular video playback devices. Up until now, moving video from a TiVo box to a PSP or iPod, involved a complex chain of conversion software to get files into the required MPEG-4 format. Now the conversion will happen natively as part of TiVoToGo.
The TiVoToGo service was rolled out earlier in the year and allows TiVo recordings to be played back on compatible devices such as Portable Media Centers. However, the process is still a little cumbersome. Firstly the recording has to be moved to a PC which happens in realtime. Then the transferred recording is synced with the playback device, which happens a little more quickly. It could still take over an hour to get a one hour show from TiVo to a PSP.
TiVo officials said shows recorded via TiVoToGo will have digital watermarks. The extra encoding will follow the copied program wherever it goes, giving TiVo the ability to trace the origin of a transferred program that might get posted freely onto the Internet.
The PSP and iPod service is available now as a beta to existing TiVoToGo users, but will be rolled out to new users in January.
Source: MediaCenterPCWorld.com
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