Once upon a time Dave in Boston shaped the electrons to say... > I am thinking about buying my second Tivo (for the bedroom). I was thinking > about buying the Tivo unit with the DVD Burner. > > http://www.tivo.com/2.1.2.2.asp
I have two of those - a Pioneer DVR-810H and a Toshiba RS-TX20, they're good units. > 1.) When I burn a program onto DVD with this unit.....can I give that CD to > someone else to watch in their on regular (non-Tivo) CD Player? Not CD player, but DVD player, yes. > 2.) What formats does this unit record in? It will record on DVD-R or DVD-RW media. The data format is the DVD Video standard, same as commercial DVDs, so it plays in any player than can handle the media (nearly all). There are four quality levels - Best, High, Medium, Basic, which fit 1, 2, 4, and 6 hours on a DVD, respectively. (Personally I almost always use High, sometimes Best - I find Medium and Basic too poor to use. Opinions vary.) > 3.) Will Tivo-to-go work on Win 98? Are there any other Op System that > Tivo-to-go will NOT work on ? No. See http://www.tivo.com/4.9.19.5.asp - TiVo Desktop requires Win2k or WinXP. From other reports it will work in Win2k3, but hardly anyone uses that as a desktop since it is a server OS. Galleon, which allows for transfers, is written in Java so it may run on WIn98 - but you wouldn't be able to do anything with the files since you need the decryption DLL from TiVo Desktop to use them. > 4.) DO I understand this right? With Tivo-to-go, I can put the program on a > disk and take it with me? Right? Do I need to burn it onto a disk from a > computer with a "DVD Burner"? Or can I simply use the CD burner? TiVoToGo has nothing to do with the DVD burner in the TiVo, it refers to the ability to transfer shows to/from a PC. If you want to burn a show to DVD it is simpler to use the burner in the unit. With TiVoToGo you can transfer shows to a PC. Once you have them on the PC, then, depending on software, you can use a burner *in the PC* to burn a DVD there. Or you can transfer them to various portable media devices, etc. And, of course, just watch them on the PC. (Most useful with a laptop so you can take them with you.) Again, DVD and CD are not the same thing. To burn a DVD you need a DVD burner. CDs only hold 650-750MB, DVD is 4.7GB for a single layer blank. CD really doesn't handle video well. (Yes, there is VidCD, SVCD, etc - ways of putting video on CD. But it is highly compressed and something most users won't want to attempt.) > 5.) With Tivo-to-go can I make a disk and give it to someone else? Yes, though technically that is a copyriht violation - just as making copies of CDs, or mix-CDs, etc, is also a technical violation. But if you have the DVD burning TiVo it is much easier to make the DVD in the TiVo and not bother with TiVoToGo. > 6.) What copy-protection does the Tivo use restricting me making DVD of > programs? On the TiVo itself, for local DVD burning, the unit supports Macrovision. It is possible for a program to be flagged to prevent copies being made, including burning to DVD. In practice this is never used. For TiVoToGo they have a proprietary DRM scheme that encrypts the .TiVo file. The only officially supported burning software is Sonic DVD I believe. However, there are other burning programs that will handle .TiVo files (Nero is one), and there are also a number of ways to strip the DRM and be left with raw MPEG2 that any program can handle - TVHarmony.com, DirectShow Dump, etc. There are more TiVo resources at http://www.tivolovers.com/info -MZ -- <URL:mailto:megazoneatmegazone.org> Gweep, Discordian, Author, Engineer, me. "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171 <URL:http://www.megazone.org/> <URL:http://www.eyrie-productions.com/> Eris Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tivocentral/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
