TiVo expands support to iPod Video and Sony PSP

TiVo expands support to iPod Video and Sony PSP

TiVo has now expanded their video recording service to support Apple iPod Video and Sony Playstation Portable players. The aim is to get the television content into more portable devices and both iPod Video and Sony PSP are best sellers in their markets. The service is the enhanced version of their TiVoToGo feature. It however adds more copy-protection measures.

This copy protection is important so as to not anger the Hollywood and television producers. The shows on TiVoToGo would now have digital watermarks. This added encoding would be transferred to the copied televised content to the portable players. This would enable the company to trace the origin of a transferred program that might be posted freely onto the Internet.

With the launch of the TiVoToGo service in the month of January, TiVo gave its broadband Series2 subscribers the ability to transfer recorded shows to Windows-based PCs and laptops as well as portable media players. However, it was not compatible with devices not conforming to Microsoft Corp.’s Portable Media Center platform standards.

The latest feature edition would remove that shortcoming in the service. Jim Denney, TiVo’s vice president of product marketing said in a statement: “There’s a lot of flexibility now in the devices we support, and this puts choices in the consumer’s hands.” the new service would be available from today in a beta form to the TiVo subscribers. It would be expanded to other users sometime during the next year.