Matt Haughey, editor of the PVRBlog, writes, "This is an appalling example of TiVo baking DRM into their brand-new uber-expensive DVD burning TiVos. If you have a non-DVD tivo and you buy this new DVD-R model, you may transfer shows to the new TiVo, but you *can't* record those shows to DVD. It's totally insane and a sign that maybe TiVo is starting to drink the DRM kool aid, by going so far as to keep die-hard TiVo owners from recording shows within their own house, unless they recorded it on a single unit."
(Thanks, Matt!)
Update: Kevin sez, "I called Pioneer and TiVo to see if there was a way around this, but
they said they weren't trying to prevent us from doing this… it was
a codec/compression issue. OK, fine. I can see that having the
additional DVDR hardware in one box would give you options the
standard Series2 wouldn't have for encoding, but TiVo needs to make
potential customers aware of this limitation."
