January 11, 2005

TiVo To Go has launched. A feature of the new TiVo Desktop software for interfacing your home computer with your TiVo, TiVo To Go lets you transfer shows to your computer for viewing on the road or burning to DVD-R. The new TiVo To Go feature is currently only available for the Windows version of TiVo Desktop; the feature is supposedly coming soon to the Mac version. (The older Mac version of TiVo Desktop still does music and photos.)

My Humax TiVo DVD burner takes some of the excitement out of this feature: I can already burn shows and watch them on my laptop like any other DVD. But it might be nice to be able to casually play a show on my Mac in the office without the intermediate DVD burning step.