What the heck happened to the TiVO cast. This totally 100% stinks guys. I loved watching your show on TiVO. I fold for you, I love your show, I love TiVO - you abandoned me.

I do realize now that you stopped casting some time ago - truth be told toward the end there those casts would show up 2, 3 or 4 weeks worth at a time.

Not to sound like a stuck record but episode 266 doesn't appear in the Windows Media RSS feed almost 11 hours after I grabbed the episode and manually transferred it the TiVo. Guess I'll have to put Manuel on the payroll. All this "great technology" is starting to make me wish I was Amish. :/

Is there a problem with itunes? The episodes are usually available on the same day they are posted here, but itunes is still not recognizing there's a new episode.

I'm not sure what the problem with the RSS feeds is. I submitted them yesterday afternoon and they have yet to update. Sorry for the inconvenience. I'm working on it though!

Brooks

Fixed.

And what about the TiVo problem?

That I can't do anything about, unfortunately. I would love to have the shows back on Tivo...believe me. I've fought and fought and fought for them not to shut it down...but at the end of the day, it's all about cost and it was just too expensive to host. :-/ That's why I'm curious about this Python to Tivo stuff. Hopefully I can learn more about it and we can do a segment on it for all of our Tivo-faithful fans.

Thanks again to everyone for sticking with us this long!

Brooks

Posted by: Brooks
January 30, 2009 5:00 PM
...not to shut it down...but at the end of the day, it's all about cost and it was just too expensive to host.

I don't think we all understood that the bandwidth was coming from you and not TIVO. Are you saying that when someone watched the TIVO show, the show actually came from your download point and not TIVO? Strange that is.

On a side note, I would have picked a somewhat 'sportier' pic for the show above. That pic looks like they are about to get frisky.

Seems like the DivX RSS feed is still down... :-(

Well this is my first try at watching this not on TiVO. Downloaded the Windows Media version, dang the audio stinks compared to TiVO. Really pitiful in comparison. Yeah, so you can run racier GoDaddy ads than you did on TiVO.

Get back to TiVO, please hurry. I hate this way of watching your outstanding show. DL.TV is absolutely my favorite tech show.

Hey Brooks,

About the Tivo stuff, how did the deal work? Did you guys have to pay a fee to Tivo to host your content through them? If so, was it so much that it was more than the cost of your bandwidth increases with folks downloading directly?

I've checked into the Python stuff (pyTivo), but it looks a bit too complicated for my tastes :(

Until TiVo supports more efficient compression schemes such as h.264, the powers that be decided the cost just wasn't worth it. However, thanks for the pyTivo suggestion as I found it simple to setup and use - I'll likely be demoing this on Thursday's episode.

PyTivo isn't as convenient as a season pass, but it is certainly more flexible - and the resulting video looks pretty darn good too.

Hey Robert,

I'm running vista-64 on my new core 2 duo and I installed pyTivo and have it working but I can't seem to get it to see my 211gb Dr Who folder on my raid0 drive. Any suggestions?

Brookstone Commercial still wrong: audio says "SHODLTV" for coupon code, but screen says "SHOWDLTV".