TiVo VP Jim Denney talks Desktop 2.3 - Engadget

Wow, engadget reported some exciting new yesterday.

TiVo VP Jim Denney talks Desktop 2.3 - Engadget:

As we reported yesterday, TiVo Desktop 2.3 has been released for Windows with a few new tricks up it's sleeve. Enhancements include scheduled series downloads and MPEG-4 to MPEG-2 video transcoding for a variety of portable devices. While we've been using unsupported methods for massaging video onto the iPod and PSP, official support is now provided at a cost of $24.95.

It would have been nice if TiVo supported using a Macintosh to copy TV shows to a video iPod.

Ironically, though - at least for now - you will have to have a Microsoft Windows PC in order to save a TV show to your Apple iPod. You cannot use an Apple computer running the Apple Mac operating system to save a TV show to your iPod.

That does sound like a rather silly limitation. The article indicated TiVo was working on it but wants to make no announcement about that capability at all at this time.

Technorati tags: television, tivo, ipod

Just in case you are curious, here is the page with the information about TiVo Desktop 2.3, the software you will need to make it happen.

And, unfortunately, the Mac is still on version 1.x.