Digital Home Thoughts: Tivo Makes a Move with Video Portability

"TiVo pioneered digital video recording as a new way of watching television -- when you want it. Now it could be TV where you want it, too. The long-awaited service feature called TiVoToGo, set to launch Monday, will give users their first taste of TiVo untethered. No longer confined to TiVo digital video recorders in the living room or bedroom, subscribers will be able to transfer their recorded shows to PCs or laptops and take them on the road -- as long as the shows are not specially tagged with copy restrictions. That's also the case for pay-per-view or on-demand movies, and some premium paid programming."

Not having a Tivo, nor having the ability to use one with service in Canada, I'm not all that familiar with exactly how they work (much to my dismay). The additional features included with TivoToGo sound great though. With my ReplayTV (which I hacked into working in Canada) I found some software to allow me to move my videos from the ReplayTV to my PC, but I was never able to get it to work properly - it would constantly fail when I tried to transfer or even stream a file. Since ditching the ReplayTV and switching to SnapStream Beyond TV, I relish being able to move, copy, edit, and burn my TV shows as I see fit. :D