06-08-2005, 11:00 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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It's Official: TivoToGo on Your Windows Mobile Device!
"For TV-loving road warriors, leaving home often means leaving their favorite shows behind. But just in time for the busy summer travel season -- the Travel Industry Association (TIA) predicts a record-breaking 328 million trips will be taken from June to August -- millions of people will now be able to hit the road, rails or friendly skies with their favorite TV shows in tow. TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO), Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Intel Corp. today announced a nationwide upgrade to the TiVoToGo(TM) service, enabling people for the first time to move TiVo content stored on a Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP-based PC onto Windows Mobile(TM)-based Portable Media Centers powered by Intel(R) Mobile Media Technology as well as newer Windows Mobile-based Smartphones and Pocket PCs."
TivoToGo and Windows Mobile users: convert no more! The service has undergone a nationwide upgrade to provide official support for the transfer and playback of TiVo content on Windows Mobile-based devices (this includes Pocket PCs, Smartphones and Portable Media Centers). And for kicks, "select American Airlines customers will be among the first to try out the latest summer travel technology with free Portable Media Centers - which they'll be able to keep - loaded with TiVo content via a chartered flight on June 8, 2005, hosted by American Airlines, TiVo, Microsoft and Intel." Whoever you are, consider yourself lucky! 
Click here for the press release.
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06-08-2005, 11:30 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
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This is the kind of integration that drives a platform. I have been looking for a source of free legal video programing, and this is perfect for pocketpc's with increasingly better video capabilities.
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06-08-2005, 02:41 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 618
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so how does this work exactly? you have your tivo and your PPC online in your wireless network - and you can just pass stuff from your tivo to your PPC through your laptop/home computer? does it compress well? can you choose different size/quality?
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06-08-2005, 02:57 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 10
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do you need window media center for this? or will media player do? And which are the "newer" Pocket PCs"?
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06-08-2005, 04:14 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 4
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Originally Posted by zilla31
so how does this work exactly? you have your tivo and your PPC online in your wireless network - and you can just pass stuff from your tivo to your PPC through your laptop/home computer? does it compress well? can you choose different size/quality?
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You have your Tivo hooked up to your network, your PPC ready to by synched, and the TiVo desktop software on your PC. Using the TiVO dfesktop software, transfer your shows to your PC, they come over as .tivo files. Fire up WMP 10 and select the Synch tab. In the left pane, select your shows and in the right one, select your PPC and sych them.
It takes a little time to convert the files and transfer them over. But they are the exact TiVo files you recorded.
They do compress, a 1/2 hour show is about 135MB, which is just large enough so you can't fit two on a 256mb card. But it is much better than the original size.
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06-08-2005, 04:16 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Apr 2002
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Originally Posted by GBlyth
do you need window media center for this? or will media player do? And which are the "newer" Pocket PCs"?
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You need WMP10 on your PC. On your PPC, you need WMP10 mobile. The Axim x50s have this, I'm not sure which other PPCs have it.
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06-08-2005, 05:54 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2004
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This just put me over the edge to get a Tivo tomorrow.
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06-08-2005, 06:03 PM
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Editorial Contributor
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Originally Posted by ikesler
This just put me over the edge to get a Tivo tomorrow.
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Just get a tuner card for your PC and save the monthly fees. They all come with PVR software. If MP10 can play it, it will convert and compress it to your PPC, with MP10, or a PMC.
No you don't need a media center PC, all this is a feature of MP10. A MCE gets you a tuner and MSs DVR. There are other options.
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06-08-2005, 06:30 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 191
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This is old news... This has been available for a while... I was just doing research into it a couple weeks ago. And by old news, yes I mean the actual TivoToGo software supported by Tivo that works w/ MP10... they already had this.
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06-08-2005, 07:25 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 10
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I don't mean to be dense about this but.... I have Window Media Player 10 on my PC and Player 9 on my Ipaq 4100. Can I move tivo files to my ipaq with this?
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