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TiVo2TiVo - Possible?

Just wondering... after I've installed a TurboNET card, and TiVoWeb - along with TiVoAPP .

seeing how flexible these guys are, has anyony attempted to get two or more TiVo's to talk to each other?

Seems like it may be possible, being able to transfer recorded shows to another TiVo in the house on the same network.


just wondering....

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TiVos shipped with 1.2 and 1.3 software had scripts on them that clearly showed that videos could be loaded onto the TiVo and properly show up on the Now Showing list. Unfortunately, noone is publicly talking about actually doing this, primarily (I think) because extraction is a banned topic here.

But that wouldn't be video extraction, just moving it from one TiVo to another. And hot damn I'd love to be able to do that. It's the number one thing about the Replay units of which I'm envious.

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I would *imagine* if SonicBlue wins their case in court, TiVo will follow suit and enable video transfers between local TiVos, at least. Otherwise, the ethernet capibility serves little purpose besides saving TiVo some $$$ by getting updates via a secondary 'net connection.

I wonder if we could get David and possibly Pony to ok the discussion and support for transferring programs and or settings from one TiVo to another.

Again, not extraction to an open format on a PC but transferring of a program from one TiVo to another and geting it to show up in Now Playing with an appropiate title.

being able to see and play the vids from the now showing screen of another local nett'ed tivo would almost be the holy grail to me....

The scripts that were on 1.2 and 1.3 s/w tivios were complete and had several steps:

Load the movie:
exec ele2pestriple videofile.mpv videofile.mpa $mfsPath

Create video data:
Date and Time
Recording Length
Title and Description
Expiration
etc......
the above loaded into Now Showing

The hard part would be getting the video files to begin with and that would almost certainly involve a banned topic.

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Originally posted by MighTiVo
I wonder if we could get David and possibly Pony to ok the discussion and support for transferring programs and or settings from one TiVo to another.

Again, not extraction to an open format on a PC but transferring of a program from one TiVo to another and getting it to show up in Now Playing with an appropriate title.

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hmmmmmmm
Does that mean when I move my hard drive from my A TiVo to my B TiVo, that I am violating DMCA?
Or if i do a video capture, using say Dazzle, and then load that video on my TiVo?

They will have to build more jails.

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Originally posted by SteakMan
Moving the video at all would violate the DMCA, unless you get permission from the content owner first. The question is, who owns the content? The sat & cable companies, or the distribution companies, or the companies in the MPAA?
-SteakMan-

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Originally posted by supervhs
hmmmmmmm
Does that mean when I move my hard drive from my A TiVo to my B TiVo, that I am violating DMCA?
Or if i do a video capture, using say Dazzle, and then load that video on my TiVo?

They will have to build more jails.

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Originally posted by SteakMan
Moving the video at all would violate the DMCA, unless you get permission from the content owner first. The question is, who owns the content? The sat & cable companies, or the distribution companies, or the companies in the MPAA?

Sadly, it will never be the content creators.

TiVo has said that they WILL include home sharing so maybe they are working on agreements, or maybe they think that the MPAA will leave them alone as long as the recordings don't leave a residence.

-SteakMan-

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Originally posted by Black_Dragon
Actually, I don't believe it would violate the DMCA. The DMCA prohibits "devices" that circumvent copyright control "devices" such as encryption, rights management software, etc.

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Originally posted by SteakMan
Moving the video at all would violate the DMCA, unless you get permission from the content owner first.

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Okay but don't throw rocks at me.

If they are regular tivos could you just put the one tivo out to the other tivo in and have the other tivo set up like the setup to record from satellite, i.e. I don't have regular tivos and I forgot the setup but you set it up to record like from a vcr to tivo (tivos setup when done record on channel 3 but all the channels are the same picture).

Hey, what can I say, I still have my sleep disorders with a twist.

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Tivo to Tivo copying

Here's a question:

If I own two identical Tivos is it okay (technically, legally, and/or ethically) for me to take out the harddrive(s) out of one and copy them onto the harddrive(s) out of the other?

If this is okay can I automate the process so that it happens over the ethernet every night at a certain time?

I figure as long as I don't record any shows on the second Tivo I'm not violating any license agreement I have with Tivo and presumably this isn't any different than owning two VCRs and moving tapes from one to the other so the program content copyright holder shouldn't care.

marcos

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Originally posted by MighTiVo
Please explain how, I disagree with your assertion.
The DMCA grants an exemption from the law to ephemeral recordings (copies of recordings). In order to qualify for ephemeral recording exemption, only the person who made the recording can use it, you must destroy the copy within six months unless you intend to preserve it solely for archival purposes and you make only one copy.

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Q. In recent congressional testimony, the Chairman of the Recording Industry Association of America (“RIAA”) said that it is not “fair use” to make a copy of your own CD to play in your car. Does any law or court case say this?

A. No. Audio home recording is covered by the general principles of fair use recognized in the Betamax case. In the HRRC view, the law as interpreted by the Supreme Court protects the sale of home recording devices, both video and audio, to consumers, and recognizes that the fair use rights of consumers include private, noncommercial home recording, such as making a tape for your car.

So what is different from making a tape for your car and making a duplicate for your second TiVo?

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At a February 28 Senate Commerce Committee hearing, the heads of the MPAA and two major studios purported to drop all attempts to do this[ turn off for all purposes (including viewing) home interfaces ]. They:
·characterized prior home taping concerns as "history,"
·said they have no present concerns over home recording so long as content is not uploaded to the Internet, and
·said they would no longer insist on the ability to shut off in-home product interfaces based on such concerns ("selectable output control" or "extended CCI").

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Originally posted by Ilovetorecord2
Okay but don't throw rocks at me.

If they are regular tivos could you just put the one tivo out to the other tivo in and have the other tivo set up like the setup to record from satellite, i.e. I don't have regular tivos and I forgot the setup but you set it up to record like from a vcr to tivo (tivos setup when done record on channel 3 but all the channels are the same picture).

Hey, what can I say, I still have my sleep disorders with a twist.

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Re: Tivo to Tivo copying

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Originally posted by marcos
Here's a question:

If I own two identical Tivos is it okay (technically, legally, and/or ethically) for me to take out the harddrive(s) out of one and copy them onto the harddrive(s) out of the other?

If this is okay can I automate the process so that it happens over the ethernet every night at a certain time?

I figure as long as I don't record any shows on the second Tivo I'm not violating any license agreement I have with Tivo and presumably this isn't any different than owning two VCRs and moving tapes from one to the other so the program content copyright holder shouldn't care.

marcos

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And of course we all realize that this is the same argument as being able to take a CD that you bought, and then transfer it to a portable device such as an MP3 player.

Are you breaking the law because you're making a digital copy? Or is it within the law because you're using it for your own personal use?

Nevermind the fact that ANYTHING compressed is -NOT- an exact digital copy of anything else. I would argue that the data on a Tivo is not an exact digital copy, and shouldn't be affected by the DMCA.

Of course, we have a government that considers digital anything to do with non-analog, no matter how bad the digital is (compression)


And this is all coming from a guy that owns one of the origional Rio 300's that the recording companies tried to have ban..so..take that as you want!