[chc214]

If I bought an iBook with a drive capable of burning DVD is there some way I could connect my Tivo to it in order to archive fave shows to DVD? It would be awesome if I could as I'm thinking about a DVD burner even as I need a new laptop computer. If I could get both for $1000 bucks that would be just super.
So whatcha think?
chc214

[Peter Cohen]

I may be wrong on this, but I don't believe there's any way to transport video from your TiVo to your Mac for offline storage or archival. If I understand correctly, TiVo's "Home Media" option allows you to listen to music and view photos on your Mac, but not vice versa. I'm not sure how this will change once TiVoToGo is released.

[h00ligan]

There are ways, but you need a series 1. - at least last i knew it wasn't possible with series 2.. but i haven't had a tivo in about a year so i'm out of the loop.
This is THE site for tivo hacking..
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/
and fwiw i used to use my tibook to make dvd's
there are 3 steps
get contents from tivo
decrypt tivo headers
burn dvd's

[chc214]

If I were to go out from my Tivo into audio and video in's of my camcorder, then from my firewire to my laptop, would I then be able to somehow use my laptop as an external DVD burner?
And if this is possible, on iMovie or whatever, would I have to for some reason transfer the show to tape fire or would simply by using the camera as a "bridge" would I be able to digitize to my computer's hard drive?
I'm not sure if I'm making sense. Maybe I should just get a DVD burner.

[h00ligan]

youa re talking about using your camcorder as a firewire bridge?
That would work but you'd have to rerecord in real time and you would be degrading teh signal from digital to analog back to digital..then again if this is a SA tivo it came though analog anyway..
if you do it that way you could capture into imove, edit, burn in idvd.