From TiVo to iPod: But not for Macs

Unsurprising: I think most iPod owners have PCs, not Macs. Hence Apple no longer supplies the FireWire cable as standard. However, I believe Mac owners are regarded as early adopters and trend-setters, and probably also value a refined user experience quite highly. So you'd think it would be in TiVo's interests to target them.

Calling TiVoTool trash seems pretty silly. It's awesome if you have a hacked TiVo. And if your TiVo is more than a year old, there's no warranty to void, right?

Tivo Tool is trash, you have to hack your tivo first, which voids your warranty.

Thanks Patrick, I will try this out at lunch.

TivoTool is awesome, especially if you have a DirecTiVo, which doesn't officially support copying stuff off of it regardless of if you have a Mac or Windows.

For those of us using Macs, or even (gasp!) Series 1 TiVos, you may want to check out TiVoTool at http://tivotool.com/. It seems to be a free piece of software for OS X that allows you to import programs from your Series 1 or 2 TiVo directly into iTunes. I haven't used it yet (my network isn't setup in the new apartment just yet), so I can't really say whether it works or not, but someone should give it a try and let us know.

Maybe, just maybe it's not an evil plot against Apple users. Maybe it is because they possibly can't write to HFS.

I mean, it's not too suprising. tivo has not supported anything for mac for a long time. That is why Apple should buy them, put out their own DVR, or a combination of the two,