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Okay, a whole bunch of questions that I'll ask here (and may have been answered). I'm not asking on Tivo.com, as it's likely to be deleted over there.
I hope this isn't too inflammatory - I rewrote things a few times already trying to tone it down, but, well - I'm really pissed off.
- Does Tivo have any intention of fixing the Mac OS X Tivo Desktop installer (as promised in MacWorld)? Tivo Desktop itself works fine (for photos and music only), but the installer has been crashing and "unsupported" since Tiger came out nine months ago. All that is required is to remove "AddFirewallEntry" from the postinstall script. My feelings on Tivo for this lapse are largely unprintable, but suffice to say, you wouldn't want to meet me in person.
- Does Tivo have any plans on supporting Mac OS X for Intel? As people are probably aware, PowerPC Preference Panes (such as TivoToGo) will not function in Rosetta, the PowerPC translator on Intel. This means we'll need a "universal binary" for Tivo Desktop. This may be as simple as a recompile, but since fixing the installer is as simple as removing one line from a postinstall script, I'm not optimistic.
- In the same MacWorld article above, iPod Video and PSP support were mentioned for TivoToGo. Since this means non-DRM'ed H.264, what would prevent Mac OS X from using TivoToGo at that point?
- Any news on rumored version 2.0, especially as it relates to the above points? It seems strange that the screenshots show the video coming over as MPEG2, not as H.264. Given that Mac OS X does not ship with MPEG2 playback but does support H.264, it would seem like a no-brainer to just use H.264 on Mac OS X and leave it at that.
I hope this isn't too inflammatory - I rewrote things a few times already trying to tone it down, but, well - I'm really pissed off.