Screw tivo. I'm going moxiebox... even though they suck.

How many times have you heard "We're working on a mac version" and it never comes.

Look at Google... No google earth, picassa, etc.

I'll believe it when I see it, but I doubt I'll ever see it.

They said the same thing about the initial TiVoToGo product. which proved to be vaporware.

I love my TiVo, but have lost faith in the company because of it's broken promises to the Mac community.

And, what's more, the windows product recently started having problems downloading video.

Though I'm skeptical after TiVo's longstanding statement that "we're working on it", it makes sense that they would move on to Mac support now that they are tackling the iPod.

About the only advantage a TiVo has over a PVR (personal video recorder) with HD & DVD burner is the program guide. Otherwise, it's an inferior product.

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gslusher wrote:
About the only advantage a TiVo has over a PVR (personal video recorder) with HD & DVD burner is the program guide. Otherwise, it's an inferior product.

The program guide and being able to view all the recorded show information. I saw someone using a standard PVR/DVR and all you saw was the date/time/channel information, not even a show name. That's fine if you only record a few shows a week that record at the same time every week. But with today's cable stations with shows being shown 5-10 times a week at different times you would never be able to keep track.

I have two DVRs, one that is built into the Comcast box and the second is Replay DVR. I thought the Replay was superior to the Tivo in numerous ways, but the relivant reason is it is easy to get content to my Mac/PC. It stores it in a non-proprietary format (MPEG2) unlike Tivo. There is a great open source program called DVArchive which easily transfer the program to your computer. From there it is simply a matter of converting it to one of the iPod supported codex (MPEG4 or H.264) via Quicktime or one of the other such programs.