TiVo, RSS and Windows
A few months back A Feed is Born mentioned that TiVo was beginning to use RSS in its subscription service thereby giving the TV access to on-line video, A few months after it seem that this particular service is now available.
March 18, 2008 and Tivo announced that through an updated Desktop Plus PC software subscribers can now subscribe (via RSS) and view online video.
TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced TiVo® subscribers can now watch video content from the Web directly on their television sets. Through an updated version of TiVo’s Desktop Plus PC software, users can now discover and enjoy a broad range of Web entertainment available directly from their TV. The simple application, which uses the popular Season Pass™ functionality on the TiVo service, continues to deliver on TiVo’s pledge to offer consumers an easy way to search, discover and enjoy the broad range of entertainment no matter what the source. [Source]
More information about Tivo Desktop Plus Upgrade for Windows (24.95 US Dollars) and TiVO Desktop software for Windows (Free) is available here. The difference and similarity between the two.
Desktop Plus has the following features:
NEW! You can now transfer all your downloaded Web Video from your PC to your TiVo DVR so you can watch them on your TV. Learn More about TiVo Desktop & Transfers.
Automatic conversions of your TiVoToGo transfers to support portable devices that support MPEG-4 or H.264 video—Transfer video to your iPod, PSP, Treo, Nokia and other portables devices
NEW! Set automatic transfers of your favorite shows and videos from your PC to your TiVo DVR.
Improved video quality and aspect ratio in the Series3 and TiVo HD DVRs when downloading high-quality video.
Automatically transfer shows from your TiVo DVR to a Windows PC or laptop.
Browse and listen to your computer’s MP3 library from your TiVo DVR.
Watch full-screen slide shows of your computer’s digital photo collection on your TV.
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While Desktop would feature th following:
Automatically transfer shows from your TiVo DVR to a Windows PC or laptop.
Browse and listen to your computer’s MP3 library from your TiVo box.
Watch full-screen slide shows of your computer’s digital photo collection on your TV.
Use Windows Media Player to watch TiVoToGo transfers on a Windows Mobile or Portable Media Center device.
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And it only runs on Windows.
System Requirements:
* A Personal computer running Microsoft® Windows® XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista.
* 500 megahertz processor
* 256 MB RAM
* 5 GB free disk space
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No Mac?
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