[jhimmel]

So, I have a couple of TiVo boxes, and a large archive of HD TiVo movies that are stored on some PC hard drives through TiVo Desktop. I was curious about transferring some of these HD movies to the PlayBook.

I did a test with a movie. In this case, Bride Wars. I'm sure there is a more streamlined way, but I just used what I had at the time. I used VideoReDo to convert from .TiVo file to .mpg file. Then I just used Windows Movie Maker to convert to .wmv

Starting file size was over 8GB - final size was 871MB. The movie looked and played fantastic on the PlayBook.

It's great to know that I can transfer any of my large collection of HD TiVo recorded movies to my PlayBook. If there are other TiVo users around here, I just thought you might be interested.

[JDukeOSBB]

Unfortunately, the PB doesn't recognize .mpg formatted movies, mpeg-4 (mp4) are supported though.

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[SwerveAM]

i used tivotogo and convert for ipad. the episodes come out great...

[jhimmel]

Excellent, SwerveAM! I just noticed that TiVoToGo also has convert to mp4 and H.264 formats. I'm going to try those as well.

[Fonz0]

I used Tivo to Go also. Selected Ipad. need to figure out how to get a PB setting or how to customize MP4 for native PB resolution.

[jhimmel]

ill try the ipad option, but mpeg4 and h.264 were nowhere near the quality i got in my first method.

[SwerveAM]

how did it come out? i tried various ones and dont forget to download updated tivotogo...