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Toast 8’s conversion window provides you with two options if you want to watch the video on your iPod: “Fastest” (MPEG-4) or “Smallest” (H.264) encoding.
Description details later to be included in the file’s tag are evident at the top Toast 8 properly tags the file as a TV Show, gives it its Show, Episode ID, Artist, and Comments, but doesn’t give it an episode number, season number, or standard iTunes cover art – you’ll need to do these yourself, which can be very time-consuming when dealing with multiple files. Within the queue, you can see how long it takes to send a file from your TiVo to your Mac – in each of several tests we conducted, Toast 8 required 45-47 minutes for 36 minute (688MB) shows, conversion time not included.
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Auto Transfer features let you schedule new episodes of a series for automatic delivery to your Mac, whenever it’s turned on. The Transfers list at left shows you a queue of what’s happening at a given moment. Start Transfer and Auto Transfer buttons are found at the bottom right of this screen, replaced by Stop Transfer and Remove Auto Transfer buttons when a transfer’s in process. With the TiVo selected in the TiVo DVRs list, you can pick an individual episode of a show – or multiple episodes – to transfer to your Mac. Notably, Toast 8 actually does a better job outputting TiVo content to DVD format – apparently because of TiVo corporate-imposed resolution limitations – than it does at creating iPod-ready files, an issue that will limit the software’s appeal to those who watch videos through iTunes, or intend to do so with the impending Apple TV. In short, Toast 8 is the best TiVo program of its type yet released for the Mac, and relatively easy to use, however, it neither automates the entire TiVo-to-iTunes process, nor permits iPod encoding at higher than 320×240 resolutions.
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Since iLounge is iPod- and iTunes-focused, and not concerned with Toast’s myriad disc-related features, we’re neither assigning a product-wide rating to Toast 8 Titanium nor rating it solely on the highs and lows of its iPod/TiVo conversion functionality rather, this review is meant to describe what it does, how well it works, and what future iterations of the iPod and TiVo software need to do in order to remain useful to Mac iPod and iTunes users.
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Put flippantly, it also does a lot of other stuff, too: TiVo-features aside, Toast has been and remains the definitive CD, DVD, and now Blu-Ray Disc mastering software suite for Mac users, and the iPod and TiVo functionality is just gravy. Thankfully, Roxio has released Toast 8 Titanium ($100), a program – currently, the only program – capable of both transferring TiVo content to your Mac and transforming it into iTunes/iPod-compatible files. But we’re not in an ideal world, and in fact, it’s taken until this month for TiVo to offer any formal solution for Mac users to view TiVo-recorded videos on the iPod, or within iTunes.
In an ideal world, you wouldn’t have to pay episodically to carry around your free broadcast television, or keep your computer turned on 24 hours a day as a recorder, and a device such as TiVo’s excellent line of dedicated digital video recorders could create iPod-ready files for immediate transfer. If you’re a Macintosh owner with a yen for iPod- or iTunes-viewable TV shows, you have several options: buy episodes individually from Apple’s iTunes Store, use a dedicated Mac-based recorder from Elgato Systems’ EyeTV family, or transfer videos from a non-Mac recording device connected either to your TV or the cable line. The good news is that Toast 8 has all of these features, and that they’re mostly easy to use the bad news is that it neither automates the entire process, nor permits iPod encoding at higher than 320×240 resolutions.
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Long considered the gold standard for CD and DVD burning on the Mac, Roxio’s Toast 8 Titanium has just gained numerous new features, most pertinently including full support for automatic or manual TiVoToGo video exporting from any Series 2 TiVo device, and the ability to convert TiVo videos into iPod-ready MPEG-4 or H-264 files, or DVDs. TiVo owners with Macintosh computers, rejoice.
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