Earlier today, TiVo announced that you can now add a custom video podcast RSS feed directly from within the TiVo interface. This much needed improvement allows you to add a video podcast that isn’t currently available via TiVo’s ever expanding TiVoCast directory. To be honest I haven’t had a chance to play around with this update however, Dave Zatz has done an excellent job blogging this new feature. I plan on taking a closer look tomorrow so stay tuned.
video source: ZNF
And of course TiVo decides to kick me square in the balls by not offering this on my series 2 that I bought from them less than a year ago. I have also bought the desktop plus software but it would sure be nice to have this customrss feature on my series 2. I was planning on putting the series 2 in another room and picking up a series 3 but I don’t think I will ever buy another TiVo now as if I do how long will it be before TiVo decides to make that one obsolete and force me to upgrade again! I use Linux on a daily basis and as far as I am concerned there is no technical reason as to why this feature could not be added to series 2 models as well. The only reason they are not is a money grab to force people that want the feature to upgrade. And why the heck are they still selling series 2 models when they are outdated and will not have any new features added to them. It was one thing when the series 2 got passed over with the YouTube videos (another upgrade money grab) but this is the perverbial straw that broke the camels back.
Yeah, there is a technical reason. Your Series2 doesn’t have hardware to decode H.264.
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