TiVo launches mobile site

Earlier this week, TiVo announced their new mobile site, m.tivo.com, and it's OK. Definitely not the solution I've been wanting from TiVo, but good at what it does.

I tested it out on my iPhone and was able to find and schedule a recording easily. In fact, the process should be very familiar to anyone who has used TiVo's online scheduling service. You can also browse popular shows, recommendations based on your preferences and browse the help section. The whole thing was put together by Mobui Corporation.

TiVo's lackluster Mac support has been a thorn in our side for years. Heck, you've got spend $80US on Toast 9 Titanium to transfer shows from your TiVo to your Mac (something Windows users can do for free). While m.tivo.com is convenient and easy to use, it still seems like a consolation prize.

Thanks, Anne!

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Ben

its working great on my HTC touch diamond.

November 26 2008 at 11:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

monstergrafx

seems to only work when you are on wifi connection.

November 25 2008 at 7:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Marc Edwards

If only TiVo had an iPhone app like IceTV's in Australia...

http://www.icetv.com.au/about/iphone.shtml

Web apps suck for this kind of thing.

November 25 2008 at 6:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jabs

I can also confirm that telling it to record a show, using an iPhone, it tries to redirect way too many times and Safari throws up an error. You would think someone would have tested this before announcing it and especially using an iPhone screenshot in the story.

November 25 2008 at 5:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

japtor

There was TiVo Decode Manager a while back but that kinda borked under 10.5. Someone recently did some work on it to get it functional again:

http://code.google.com/p/itivo/

November 25 2008 at 5:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bob S.

Works very well on my SIdekick LX, if you want a phone that works with mobile apps like this.

November 25 2008 at 4:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tara

"Heck, you've got spend $80US on Toast 9 Titanium to transfer shows from your TiVo to your Mac (something Windows users can do for free)."

Not true. You only need a web browser to download tivo programs on any operating system.

November 25 2008 at 4:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

3 replies to Tara's comment

dean

Tivo's Mac support does suck. A lot. But you don't have to spend money on Toast to transfer programs to your Mac thanks to the Tivo NowPlaying Dashboard widget and TivoDecode Manager.

November 25 2008 at 3:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Aloysius Snuffleupagus

Typo: "launches" not "launces". And why the heck don't they build a dedicated app?

November 25 2008 at 3:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Darian

Is it just me, or does this thing not work. It tries to load for a while on my iphone, and then eventually fails...

November 25 2008 at 3:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply