Thursday, March 11, 2010
HP MediaSmart Home Servers Gets TiVo Add-in
Posted by Andy Dixon in "Digital Home Software" @ 06:00 PM
"For those enjoying media bliss thanks to a little MediaSmart box humming away somewhere in the corner, life just got a even more lovely. HP has announced a partnership with TiVo that allows MediaSmart users to install a Windows Home Server add-in, enabling the two devices to talk sweet nothings to each other. From within the WHS console you'll be able to suck recorded content from the TiVo onto the MediaSmart's expansive storage array and, from there, play it on any of your compatible devices (PC, Mac, Xbox, PS3, etc.). Or, when you start to miss those happy TiVo sounds, you can send that content back over to DVR to view from there. The WHS extension is available right now to MediaSmart owners, so get on with the downloading already."
HP have released a Windows Home Server add-in for their MediaSmart servers, that allows you to link your TiVo to your HP Windows Home Server and enables you to store and then playback your recorded content. This is another good example of just how flexible Windows Home Server is and how features can be added via the add-in functionality. So if you have TiVo and an HP WHS, check it out and let us know whether it's any good. I'd be interested to know if the add-in works on other servers and not just the HP ones.
