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Now that the new Video iPod is out in the wild, it was only a matter of time before someone figured out a quick and easy way to get your own videos and TV Shows on your iPod.

And if you have a ReplayTV, it gets even better. Gizmodo has posted instructions for transferring your ReplayTV Shows to your iPod that were emailed to them by one of their readers. The process seems pretty simple — basically, after getting your shows onto your computer using DVArchive, you just convert them to an iPod video format, which is where a shareware program called PSPVideo9 comes in.

This program converts any mpeg2 video file to a PSP compatible video but it will also work with an iPod. PSPVideo9 is simple to use and apparently quick — the author of the instructions said converting a 30 minute video only took about 16 minutes!

After the video is converted, all you have to do is drag and drop it onto your video iPod.

I’m not psychic, but I think I see a video iPod in my immediate future …

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As I wrote last week, VeohTV is being called a possible DVR for Internet Video. Currently in beta testing and available by invitation only, I applied for the beta and received my invitation about a week later. While I haven’t spent much time with VeohTV (yet), here are some of my first impressions of the current beta version.

The download and installation of VeohTV was simple and error free. Basically, all you have to do is download the setup file, run it and choose where to install the program. One nice touch that I really liked was that the setup program asked where to store downloaded videos. You have the choice of installing the program on one drive and storing any downloaded videos on another drive. Too many programs I’ve installed lately automatically store their data in “My Documents” — not necessarily where I want to store tons of video. Since I have a nice big Seagate external hard drive, I chose to store my downloaded videos there.

The first time you run VeohTV it asks you to sign in to your Veoh.com account. If you don’t already have one, you can create an account very easily from within VeohTV by just entering your email address, username and password. After logging in, you are presented with the VeohTV home screen: Read the rest of this entry »

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For everyone out there who was smart enough to buy a lifetime service subscription for their original TiVo (unfortunately I wasn’t) you’re finally being rewarded. TiVo has a special limited time offer to transfer lifetime service subscriptions to a new Series 2 Dual Tuner 80GB TiVo. There are a few restrictions:

• This is only for TiVo units that were activated with a lifetime subscription before June 15, 2003.
• The lifetime service can only be transferred to a Series 2 TiVo Dual Tuner 80 Hour Unit — No Series 3
• The offer is only good until July 23, 2007 and you must activate the new unit with the lifetime service subscription by August 31, 2007.

This is good and bad. Obviously, the lifetime service subscription was a good purchase even before this (especially considering how many old lifetime units are still out there chugging away) but now it’s even better — you get to start all over with a brand spanking new TiVo. With the track record of the early TiVo’s, these Series 2 TiVo’s will most likely last until the next lifetime service transfer offer. The bad part of this is you can’t transfer the lifetime service to a Series 3 HD TiVo — yet. I fully expect that sometime in the relatively near future, TiVo will offer a transfer of the lifetime service to the Series 3. The question is, will it be from an original TiVo or only a Series 2 that had the lifetime service transferred to it?

Let’s hope that TiVo offers the transfer to the Series 3 sometime in the very near future. If I were a gambling man, I would probably wait and hold out for the transfer directly to the Series 3. Of course, since I don’t have a lifetime service subscription to transfer, that’s easy for me to say.

For those of you looking to play it safe, Transfer Now!

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