Thankfully, Roxio has released Toast 8 Titanium ($100), a program – currently, the only program – capable of both transferring TiVo content to your Mac and transforming it into iTunes/iPod-compatible files. But we’re not in an ideal world, and in fact, it’s taken until this month for TiVo to offer any formal solution for Mac users to view TiVo-recorded videos on the iPod, or within iTunes. In an ideal world, you wouldn’t have to pay episodically to carry around your free broadcast television, or keep your computer turned on 24 hours a day as a recorder, and a device such as TiVo’s excellent line of dedicated digital video recorders could create iPod-ready files for immediate transfer. If you’re a Macintosh owner with a yen for iPod- or iTunes-viewable TV shows, you have several options: buy episodes individually from Apple’s iTunes Store, use a dedicated Mac-based recorder from Elgato Systems’ EyeTV family, or transfer videos from a non-Mac recording device connected either to your TV or the cable line. The good news is that Toast 8 has all of these features, and that they’re mostly easy to use the bad news is that it neither automates the entire process, nor permits iPod encoding at higher than 320×240 resolutions. Long considered the gold standard for CD and DVD burning on the Mac, Roxio’s Toast 8 Titanium has just gained numerous new features, most pertinently including full support for automatic or manual TiVoToGo video exporting from any Series 2 TiVo device, and the ability to convert TiVo videos into iPod-ready MPEG-4 or H-264 files, or DVDs. TiVo owners with Macintosh computers, rejoice.
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