I've been using pyTiVo instead of TiVo desktop which easily allows me to transfer most anything I ahem
Does it also allow you to transfer stuff off your TiVo and view it locally?
Mighty fine shindig.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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§ ita § - Dec 23, 2009 12:12:13 pm PST #12065 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
NoiseDesign - Dec 23, 2009 12:17:33 pm PST #12066 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
The PS3 was the benchmark Blu-Ray player for the first couple of years but in the past 12 months or so a number of the standalone ones have been outperforming it from what I understand. We have a PS3 in the living room for games and Blu-Ray and it works great, but they are huge and don't stack well into regular component setups and have a big fan in them as well. I picked up a Samsung Blu-Ray for the bedroom system recently. Haven't had a chance to compare the two yet, but it seems like it's a good performer.
Jon B. - Dec 23, 2009 12:28:43 pm PST #12067 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Does it also allow you to transfer stuff off your TiVo and view it locally?
Now that I think about it, there may be two programs that I set up on my Mac -- one for each direction. I'll check when I get home and report back.
tommyrot - Dec 23, 2009 12:39:49 pm PST #12068 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
So, anyone who used Notepadd++ - is there a way to find unbalanced brackets, parenthesis, etc?
le nubian - Dec 23, 2009 1:05:27 pm PST #12069 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jon is right, on the mac, pytivo is the superior product to Tivo Desktop. I use it all the time and it can be a little quirky: I have to restart the program here and there, but that is a very minor inconvenience.
To transfer files off the tivo, I believe I use ITivo.
Jon B. - Dec 23, 2009 4:46:33 pm PST #12070 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
What LeNub said. iTivo can get stuff from the Tivo onto your Mac; pyTivo goes the other way.
le nubian - Dec 23, 2009 5:02:53 pm PST #12071 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
it was not immediately apparent that pytivox encodes as it sends it to the Tivo until I had been using it for a few months. If you have an Avi, you don't really need to do anything to it, just transfer it to Tivo and pytivox does the rest.
Liese S. - Dec 23, 2009 7:43:30 pm PST #12072 of 25501
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Isn`t there a new slimline ps3? Also, check sonystyle.com and go to its outlet as I think they`ve got a few refurb blu-ray players right now. I am looking at buying from them shortly as my dvd burner has gone kaput.
javachik - Dec 23, 2009 8:53:55 pm PST #12073 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
I got the Panasonic DMP-BD605 from Costco for $129. I like it just fine, but don't own any Blu-Ray dvds, so haven't yet seen how good it can look. Gotta say the Roku, with its RGB inputs into the tv makes a damned swell picture. Streaming vid has never looked so good to me.
And a Buffista has claimed my old Sony vcr/dvd combo too! Yay!
tommyrot - Dec 24, 2009 5:22:19 am PST #12074 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Wow, two days before Christmas....
Amazon DOWN After DDoS Attack Cripples Amazon, Wal-Mart, Others
f you've been doing some last minute Amazon holiday shopping on Wednesday evening, you've probably noticed that Amazon's web site was sluggish and, at times, completely down. The same fate greeted Wal-Mart, Expedia, and a number of smaller sites. The reason? A severe DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on the servers of Neustar, the company that offers DNS services to many major companies under the name UltraDNS.
eta: this is from last night. Dunno if it's still happening....