- TOAST TITANIUM 9 REVIEW FOR MAC
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(This assumes that you have both a wireless network and a wireless adapter for your TiVo, such as the official TiVo Wireless G USB Network Adapter as noted below Toast 8 requires virtually no additional work on your part.) Users can browse the contents of their TiVos, select any given show or batch of shows for single-episode immediate or series-wide automatic transfers, and leave the transfer process running in the background.
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On the transferring front, Toast 8 offers full support for automatic or manual TiVoToGo video exporting from any Series 2 TiVo device. Toast 8 offers several related benefits for TiVo and iPod users, which divide up neatly into “transferring” and “encoding” categories. What Toast 8 Titanium Does for TiVo and iPod/iTunes Users Notably, Toast 8 actually does a better job outputting TiVo content to DVD format – apparently because of TiVo corporate-imposed resolution limitations – than it does at creating iPod-ready files, an issue that will limit the software’s appeal to those who watch videos through iTunes, or intend to do so with the impending Apple TV. In short, Toast 8 is the best TiVo program of its type yet released for the Mac, and relatively easy to use, however, it neither automates the entire TiVo-to-iTunes process, nor permits iPod encoding at higher than 320×240 resolutions.
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Since iLounge is iPod- and iTunes-focused, and not concerned with Toast’s myriad disc-related features, we’re neither assigning a product-wide rating to Toast 8 Titanium nor rating it solely on the highs and lows of its iPod/TiVo conversion functionality rather, this review is meant to describe what it does, how well it works, and what future iterations of the iPod and TiVo software need to do in order to remain useful to Mac iPod and iTunes users.
TOAST TITANIUM 9 REVIEW FOR MAC
Put flippantly, it also does a lot of other stuff, too: TiVo-features aside, Toast has been and remains the definitive CD, DVD, and now Blu-Ray Disc mastering software suite for Mac users, and the iPod and TiVo functionality is just gravy. Thankfully, Roxio has released Toast 8 Titanium ($100), a program – currently, the only program – capable of both transferring TiVo content to your Mac and transforming it into iTunes/iPod-compatible files. But we’re not in an ideal world, and in fact, it’s taken until this month for TiVo to offer any formal solution for Mac users to view TiVo-recorded videos on the iPod, or within iTunes. In an ideal world, you wouldn’t have to pay episodically to carry around your free broadcast television, or keep your computer turned on 24 hours a day as a recorder, and a device such as TiVo’s excellent line of dedicated digital video recorders could create iPod-ready files for immediate transfer.
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If you’re a Macintosh owner with a yen for iPod- or iTunes-viewable TV shows, you have several options: buy episodes individually from Apple’s iTunes Store, use a dedicated Mac-based recorder from Elgato Systems’ EyeTV family, or transfer videos from a non-Mac recording device connected either to your TV or the cable line. The good news is that Toast 8 has all of these features, and that they’re mostly easy to use the bad news is that it neither automates the entire process, nor permits iPod encoding at higher than 320×240 resolutions. Long considered the gold standard for CD and DVD burning on the Mac, Roxio’s Toast 8 Titanium has just gained numerous new features, most pertinently including full support for automatic or manual TiVoToGo video exporting from any Series 2 TiVo device, and the ability to convert TiVo videos into iPod-ready MPEG-4 or H-264 files, or DVDs. TiVo owners with Macintosh computers, rejoice.
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