TiVo Videos on Pocket PC

Friday, June 02, 2006

It is possible to watch your TiVo videos on your own portable PC and other portable devices if you own a Series 2 TiVo. The process is pretty simple and makes use of TiVo's Desktop Software and TiVo2Go.

The requirements for playing TiVo videos on your Pocket PC or other portable device are:
- A series 2 TiVo DVR
- TiVo Desktop Software (can be downloaded here)
- Your TiVo and PC connected to a home network

The process for playing TiVo videos on your pocket PC is very straightforward and more advanced PC users could probably do this without any in depth instructions. You simply transfer your TiVo videos from your TiVo to your PC using the TiVo desktop software, then re-encode the video to the correct format for your smartphone, transfer the TiVo video from your PC to your smartphone by USB and you are done.

For a more in depth tutorial explaining step by step how to transfer videos from your TiVo to your Pocket PC click here.