Why Sonic? Why is Tivo so unresponsive?

[mhmower]

I have been trying to use the Tivotogo feature for several weeks now.

The link on Sonics web site is broken (if you try to purchase it gives you a different price) and there is no demo. I have called Sonic (what a bunch of dough-heads). Sonic was very unhelpful.

I called Tivo. They pass the buck to Sonic, but refuse to pass on my request to choose a different partner or codec.

Come on Tivo!

Let's get with the program!

[classicsat]

It is Sonic's problem, not TiVo's. I am not closely following thuse situation with Sonic so I don't exactly know.

That said, under the right circumstances Nero could work, and you could pre-decode the.tivo file.

[Scott Atkinson]

I wasn't going to play, because it seems like the issues in this and related threads have been chewed over a lot already.

However...

As foolish as it sounds, I feel betrayed by Tivo on this one. When I found out about Tivo - belatedly - I got the same feeling I got when I started using Macs. It was clear, elegant, fast enough.

Why, oh why then, do the exact opposite for Tivo to go burns? I've just spent the better part of a week with EMC 8 and Nero v.6, testing a variety of files, in a variety of circumstances.

In all cases, transcoding and burns take an insanely long time, the software is fragile - to put it mildly - the packages are so big and so obtuse they have consequences for the rest of the computer, editing is in the difficult to impossible range.

In frustration, I have uninstalled, cleaned and thoroughly degunked my system. Then I installed Direct Show Dump, which does what I wanted in the first place - lets me cleanly and reasonably quickly do what I need to do.

I am not opposed to some measure of DRM; I understand it's the price of doing business in this area. But why must the programs they provide be so, so bad?

Scott A.