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Originally Posted by HDFreud Longhorn, do you know if we are going to be able to have access to some of TiVo's other features such as the ones they deploy in their Home Media platform? |
Sadly no at least not at first but I have been told that multiroom viewing will be a feature but it would work over existing coax cables using the Motorola FollowMe platform (whatever its called) but intergrated within the Tivo GUI. That will be the hope media option aspect of it. I also believe that a version of the TivoToGo software will be created for use with the Comcast boxes but it will fully support DRM in that you cannot burn a title to DVD for example. But if you have a media streamer for a portable player that will support WMV DRM playback it will work from what I hear. Also if you transfer the title to say a laptop the title itself will no longer play on the DVR until you delete the file on the laptop while connection to the internet and you must delete it via the TivoToGo software. Doing that will allow your DVR the ability to play it back again. That only applies to shows flagged as copy once such as what HBO wants todo. Now if a show isn't flagged it can be played back on any device connection but I'm not sure about DVD backups again.
I'm also told that copy once titles may support DVD backup but you won't be able to burn a second copy and the disc you created will have sometype of DRM to stop you from ripping it but again this stuff is early enough I cannot give specific details as I believe not many people fully know what the limits will be.