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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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
wildd86 said 3:18PM on 11-25-2008
Is it just me, or does this thing not work. It tries to load for a while on my iphone, and then eventually fails...
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Aloysius Snuffleupagus said 3:23PM on 11-25-2008
Typo: "launches" not "launces". And why the heck don't they build a dedicated app?
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dean said 3:54PM on 11-25-2008
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.
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Tara said 4:03PM on 11-25-2008
"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.
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worm said 5:19PM on 11-25-2008
Oh great, so now they're going to single out those of us who don't have web browsers? Thanks a lot TiVo.
david said 5:32PM on 11-25-2008
Sure you can download the files, but thanks to the DRM they are unplayable.
Tara said 5:52PM on 11-25-2008
tivodecode makes them playable.
Bob S. said 4:19PM on 11-25-2008
Works very well on my SIdekick LX, if you want a phone that works with mobile apps like this.
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japtor said 5:40PM on 11-25-2008
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/
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Jabs said 5:47PM on 11-25-2008
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.
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Marc Edwards said 6:28PM on 11-25-2008
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.
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phil said 7:08PM on 11-25-2008
seems to only work when you are on wifi connection.
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Ben said 11:09AM on 11-26-2008
its working great on my HTC touch diamond.
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