OK, I have had a TiVo for 5 years (on my second one actually) and I love it....especially after spending the last two months off TiVo and onto my local cable company's "DVR" option. Thumbs down to that, thumbs up to TiVo.

So a while back I purchased the upgrade to Tivo ToGo or Tivo Desktop Plus...I can't recall which, but I do know it allowed me to transfer files from my TiVo to my PC and visa versa. Now that I'm on a MacBook, I wondered if there was the same capability.

After much research and installing the .dmg file TiVo's website pushed out, it turns out that there is not a TiVo-built software solution for the Mac like there was for the PC...you have to buy a 3-rd party piece of software (for $80!) to get TiVo files from the TiVo to the Mac and visa versa. Toast 9 says it'll do the trick...but there's no way I'm blowing $80 when I already bought the upgrade from TiVo for their PC application.

I guess worst case is that I can transfer shows from TiVo to my XP box, then send them over to my MacBook via the home network...but thumbs down! I can see why many Mac users have said that they feel like second class citizens when it comes to software options...