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Can I get that TiVo to go please?

By Meredith Farkas | January 7, 2005

It’s like a TiVo hack created by TiVo themselves! TiVoToGo is their newest offering, a free service that allows users to transfer the shows recorded on their TiVo to their computers (via your wireless or wired network). It’s only for series 2 TiVo’s and currently only works on computers with Windows 2000 or XP, but they’re planning on making it available on all TiVo’s and other operating systems. I know there are plenty of cool TiVo hacks, but how nice is it when a company realizes what people want to do with their product and design a way to do it?!?!? I plan to spend our long drive up to Chicago next month with the laptop on my lap watching all of my favorite shows.

For more information on TiVoToGo, take a look at these stories from the New York Times and Wired.

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One Response to “Can I get that TiVo to go please?”

  1. Jenny Levine Says:
    January 7th, 2005 at 6:56 pm

    You’re right - it’s great! ReplayTVs have had an “internet sharing” feature for years that lets you send a show to another user’s ReplayTV. It runs like a web server, which lets users run software like “DVArchive” to pull the shows onto their computers without any restrictions. Long live ReplayTV! :-)