As most of you are aware, just a couple of days ago, Roxio and TiVo announced that they had partnered up on a TiVoToGo solution for the Mac. The only problem with this partnership is that you have to pay ~$100 (without rebates) to get this software. For somebody who is cheap like me, this is a lot of money. Especially considering the fact that an upgrade to OS X Tiger only costs $129.
The folks over at tuaw (the unofficial Apple weblog) were able to speak with somebody at the Roxio booth(Macworld 07) about the possibility of Roxio developing a stand-alone TiVoToGo client for the Mac. The nice thing about a standalone client would be that it would cost less since you wouldn’t be getting the CD/DVD burning capability that Roxio provides. According to tuaw, the Roxio folks said that they would consider producing a standalone client if enough people showed an interest.
As much as that would be great, it would be even better if the program actually worked. There are so many people angry that there is a glitch that transfers stop or only go for a few seconds because Tivo changed the channel before the actual show started.
Once they get the thing to work, then let’s talk about a stand alone program. Right now the one they have doesnt even work.
I agree. Right now the best TiVoToGo program is Parallels (so you can use the Windows version).
I’d love it if it didn’t keep downloading the same programs over and over again, crash when loading the list of programs, ooh, or maybe actually refreshed all the content when you clicked on items.
is there something about galleon (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19643) that keeps people from using it on the mac?
works just fine on my pc…
Give me a a F…in break! $69 for a product that PC users get for free? Plus no fix to the problems with TivoDesktop? What am I missing?
[...] I also made my suggestion about Roxio releasing a lower price TTG product, just the Transfer and Player, and they said there is a possibility that Sonic could release a lower-priced SKU with a reduced feature set. And when I got back to my room I see TiVoBlog reporting that Roxio said pretty much the same thing at MacWorld. [...]