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TiVo Software on Motorola Cable Boxes & Series 3 Update
Tivo, probably my favorite Consumer Electronics company, made a few important announcements here at CES 2007. The first and most important announcement is the unveiling of the TiVo software ported to work on Motorola cable boxes that are subscribed to the Comcast cable network. This is different than TiVo's own Series 3 model DVR in that it uses Motorola hardware and doesn't use CableCards - that matters because current CableCard technology is unidirectional. The hardware inside the Motorola boxes is capable of two-way communication, enabling such features as Video On Demand (VOD) and viewing any channels that are allocated to Switched Digital Video (SDV) system. TiVo has, by far, the best PVR interface and features, while their hardware is lacking because they aren't in the loop between cable companies and their hardware providers (Motorola, Cisco/Scientific Atlanta). Personally as a Cox subscriber, I can't wait until TiVo is offered on our SA cable boxes.     The next feature is an update to the Series 3 software that allows you to view pictures in HD. It can also integrate with your flickr account using their public API. You can view your photos and any other photos you have access to via flickr.     Finally, TiVo to Go for the Mac was finally released after years of waiting. However it's an expensive solution - $80 through Roxio's Toast Titanium 8. That said, it does come with all the functionality to burn the TV shows to DVD and to prepare videos to transfer to iPod and PSP devices. Keep in mind, though, that the video is still watermarked with your media access key so don't upload those videos to BitTorrent quite yet.
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