Each 5.25-inch dual-layer Blu-ray disc can store up to 50GB of data, compared to 4.7GB of data on a single-layer DVD-R disc. It would be handy if there were a way to automate this entire workflow.īlu-ray, Sony’s high-definition optical disc format, is gaining traction as a consumer product, but it’s also appearing as a computer storage format, and it’s not hard to understand why. For example, once my TiVo content is on my hard drive, I still need to tell Toast to rip the video to a format that my PSP understands. TiVoToGo doesn’t completely automate the process of converting video, though. But Toast 8 Titanium is still the best Mac application out there for exporting video to a wide range of different formats. Though I could massage it a bit using Toast’s extensive options, I still had a hard time getting results that satisfied me. Handbrake -images were often darker and less distinct. I found the quality of video converted and exported by Toast 8 Titanium to be lower than I could achieve on my own with applications like Unfortunately, the actual quality and speed of video output still leaves something to be desired. You can wake up in the morning and find last night’s episode of Lost or Heroes already on your hard drive and ready to rip to disc-or convert for your iPod or PSP. Setting up Auto Transfer helps automate the process of bringing content over to your Mac.

Setting up the TiVo Transfer application is a lead-pipe cinch: you enter your TiVo DVR’s Media Access Key, and the application displays the TiVo’s contents.

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