copying show to thumb drive

[skinut2234]

I am a newbie so to speak and have TiVo at home (not exactly sure of model) but it's fairly new and has 4 USB ports on the front-
I am recording a TV Friday and want to copy it onto a thumb drive to save it-
Can I do that and then view on a laptop??
I also have wireless in my house and was wondering if I can hook the Tivo up to the wireless??

[Dan203]

You can not connect it directly to the thumb drive. However you can connect it to a wireless network and copy programs to your laptop that way.

First you need a wireless USB adapter...

http://customersupport.tivo.com/knowbase/root/public/tv2006.htm

Then you need to install Tivo Desktop on your laptop...

http://www.tivo.com/4.9.4.1.asp

After that simply launch TiVo Desktop on the laptop and pick the recording(s) you want to transfer to the laptop.

Note: Inorder to actually play the TiVo files you'll need an MPEG-2 codec installed on your laptop. These typically come standard with DVD playback software, so if you have a DVD player then you should be fine. However if you don't you'll need to purchase a codec to get it to work...

http://www.elecard.com/products/products-pc/codec-pack/mpeg2-decoder-plugin/

Dan

[wscannell]

Also note that most thumb drives are really not big enough to store video. You need to have gigabytes of free space on the hard drive to store much video. A half hour program at medium will take about a gigabyte.

[MikeMar]

Basic show for 30 min is about 380 meg, so that would work