Transfer television shows recorded through TiVo DVRs onto portable media players, starting next yearStruggling DVR (digital video recorder) service provider TiVo looks to be giving their "TiVoToGo" mobile download service a boost by allowing subscribers to transfer recorded television shows onto the Apple iPod and Sony PlayStation Portable handheld devices.?TiVoToGo already supports file transfer to PC and laptop, and if testing conducted using the TiVo Series2 boxes?prove successful then support for Apple and Sony's handheld devices could come by the first quarter of 2006.
Recorded?TV shows will be encoded into the necessary file formats, in this case H.264 for iPod Video and MPEG-4 for the PSP.?The catch is that the files will be digitally watermarked so that the service provider can trace files to TiVo accounts when needed.?Additionally, subscribers must purchase "low-cost software" on the side in order to get the transfers to happen in the first place, but it's not known whether this includes software?that users with such portable devices might already have anyways.
Article Link: CNET
