Combining TiVo’s DVR software into Nero’s new multimedia applicat...
Combining TiVo’s DVR software into Nero’s new multimedia application suite caps the company’s long effort to tighten ties with PCs. The Nero 9 has tools for multimedia playback, editing, ripping, burning and backup and for the first time adds…
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LiquidTV-TiVo PC. The DVR software will be sold in a $199 package that includes Hauppauge Digital’s 950Q tuner card, TiVo remote, portable antenna and one year of TiVo service. A LiquidTV-PC software-only version ($99) also is being offered by Nero’s Web site with a free one-year TiVo subscription. After the first year, the TiVo service costs $99 monthly. The tuner card enables an SD connection through composite or S-Video jacks to a cable or satellite box to access content from TV service providers. It also can receive free over-the-air broadcasts, including HD programs. The new software handles recording and transcoding video to formats viewable on PCs, iPods, iPhones and Sony PSPs. Or programming can be burned to a DVD. The TiVo interface handles the playback, pause and replay functions, the electronic program guide and scheduling program recording. The PC must remain on to schedule programming. LiquidTV also has an option for a KidZone interface that gives children access to educational and kid- appropriate programming. It doesn’t link to TiVo’s alliances with Amazon on Demand and YouTube. TiVo’s pact with Nero caps an effort the DVR service provider launched in 2005 to make its software compatible with PCs. At the time, TiVo was working with Intel to align its TiVoToGo software with the chipmaker’s ViiV technology (CED Dec 1/05 p2). TiVo subscribers were to be able to transfer programs from their Series2 DVRs to ViiV-equipped PCs. Content stored on the TiVo DVR also was to be downloadable to ViiV-enabled devices for play back on media adapters. Meanwhile, TiVo is testing a new interface for its DVR service integrating picture-in- picture, including ads. It also allows for display of individual user “favorites.”