Download TV shows to your iPod or PSP with TiVo

[Boyd Ostroff]

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/News...CH-TIVO-DC.XML

Digital video recorder maker TiVo Inc. on Monday said it will begin testing a feature to let subscribers transfer recorded television programming to Apple iPod digital music players or Sony's PlayStation portable devices

[Boyd Ostroff]

Here are a few more stories on this topic:

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo...6FB94E81092%7D

Leigh pointed out that although TiVo's new iPod pact does undercut the Disney-iPod deal, it also sends a broader message that should be heeded by networks and studios.

"It shows that the technology is here to make television programming available on a variety of different devices," he said. "There's no technical reason why that shouldn't be -- and there's no legal reason either, under the fair-use exemption."

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With TiVo facing a freeze-out at the hands of some former partners, the plan may smack some as a desperation move.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20051121/...NlYwN5bnN0b3J5

A software purchase will be required to transfer the content from the PC to the iPod or PSP. As a security measure, TiVo will use digital watermarking technologies on programs transferred to a portable device using the TiVoToGo application. This technology will let TiVo track the account from which transferred content originates

[Jack Zhang]

Too bad they watermark your video with an additional watermark and your video would look super ugly at the bottom-right corner or worse, on your entire screen (extremely faded out) of your PSP/video iPod! I'll just look forward to a Blu-ray recorder to only transfer my HDV footage onto Blu-ray.

[Boyd Ostroff]

By "digital watermark" I assumed they were talking about invisible information in the file which could be used to track it and control access, and not one of those superimposed logos. But I suppose they might also do that...

[Boyd Ostroff]

http://yahoo.reuters.com/financeQuot...5258682_newsml

Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN cable sports network is mulling a deal to distribute some television programs on Apple's iTunes music and video service, possibly joining its corporate cousin in a landmark deal, ESPN and ABC Sports president George Bodenheimer said on Monday.