After a nice long weekend of camping near the Dells, I arrived home, fired up the 'ole Tivo, and was pleasantly surprised to see that my box had FINALLY recieved the software update enabling TivoToGo.  After announcing the feature back in January and rolling it out to most Tivo boxes shortly thereafter, I noticed the "small print" on the website.  All Humax, Toshiba, and Pioneer units would receive the update "later in the year."  Well, after waiting about, oh 8 months, the update finally arrived!

Just in time, too.  I've been hoarding quite a few episodes of Arrested Development and Chicago Stories with the intent of archiving them on my pc as soon as TivoToGo showed up.  The hard drive was so full it was getting to the point that a newly recorded show would be auto deleted the next day, and that's with 120 GB! 

I've been pretty happy with TivoToGo after playing around a bit.  I realized why my HD was so full...a simple 30 minute episode recorded at high quality is over a gig!  Man at that rate any HD DVR's are going to have to have 500 gig or larger hard drives!  The large size of the shows stem my biggest complaint with TivoToGo...namely, it takes a good 2 hours to transfer a 30 minute show over to my PC.  Granted, I'm using an 802.11b adapter (finding one that worked with Tivo was a nightmare in and of itself!)  Time to upgrade to a 54g, I suppose.  Other than that, Tivo uses some sort of DRM solution preventing my shows from being played anywhere but my PC.  Hmm...time to read up on a little "extracurricular" activity for my shows