TiVo turns on custom RSS video feed support
By Richard Lawler 
posted Aug 5th 2009 2:47PM
posted Aug 5th 2009 2:47PM
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posted Aug 5th 2009 2:47PM
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Go TiVo!!!
As far as I am concerned, this "custom RSS feature" is completely useless until TiVo adds the option to create a season pass to automatically download new episodes.
Who wants to navigate to the screen and download (or stream) every new episode manually? No one will use the feature if they have to do that.
I want every new episode downloaded to my DVR and organized into a folder with the name of the program, just as we get with television programs.
Um, did you read the article?
"...or setup a Season Pass (subscription) and download them automatically."
That would be nice if true. Unfortunately, the article is wrong.
You can only setup season passes for RSS feeds that TiVo has already lists in the UI. You can't do that with this "custom" entry feature.
To TiVo's credit, they did just add 400 new video podcasts in different categories.
TiVo has said that they will monitor the custom feeds and add the popular ones to the main list. So that 400+ is probably the tip of the iceberg.
Season passes on custom feeds would be nice though.
Would be great if they also got rid of the darn ads on the menus.
The ads are keeping TiVo alive sadly. I'd rather put up with some unobtrusive ads on my TiVo than have to go back to that Comcast POS Motorola box.
Yes, hate the ads also. Jason, we pay Tivo for their service, do we not give them enough money (love) that they need to whore themselves out?
Tried Engadget, tried SlashFilm, tried a couple other feeds. Tivo refused to add any of them, since they had video that wasn't in a "supported format".
It's as if they have a whole department down there working on how to dissapoint me in new and exciting ways.
And of course TiVo decides to kick me square in the balls by not offering this on my series 2 that I bought from them less than a year ago. I have also bought the desktop plus software but it would sure be nice to have this customrss feature on my series 2. I was planning on putting the series 2 in another room and picking up a series 3 but I don't think I will ever buy another TiVo now as if I do how long will it be before TiVo decides to make that one obsolete and force me to upgrade again! I use Linux on a daily basis and as far as I am concerned there is no technical reason as to why this feature could not be added to series 2 models as well. The only reason they are not is a money grab to force people that want the feature to upgrade. And why the heck are they still selling series 2 models when they are outdated and will not have any new features added to them. It was one thing when the series 2 got passed over with the YouTube videos (another upgrade money grab) but this is the perverbial straw that broke the camels back.