BBG guest reviewer Reed Savory follows up on his coverage of Nero's LiquidTV, a promising DVR product that's reached the end of its road.
I just wanted to get the word out that Nero has given-up on the product and formally discontinued it on December 30, 2009.
While there was clearly a lot of promise in the product, and the idea of having a fully-functional TiVo running on a PC was fantastic for those of us who love the TiVo user interface and functionality, the product never actually reached the point of actually being "a fully-functional TiVo running on a PC", even after multiple updates past the concerns I raised in my original review.
And that would be the sad end of the story, except Nero apparently decided to cut their losses and ran a special on the product during the month of December 2009, selling the product for $39.95 including the one-year $99 annual TiVo subscription fee, without telling anyone they would be discontinuing the product, and apparently blew-out everything they had in inventory. So there's going to be a lot of unhappy customers once people start realizing there aren't going to be any more updates to the product.
A lot of websites (including Amazon) still have the Nero LiquidTV in-stock, so buyer beware if you get tempted into purchasing a copy at this stage.
In terms of what to replace this with, at this point I have to go back to my original recommendation from the December 2008 review – if you want to be able to share video on your PC with your TiVo DVR, look at the pyTiVo open-source app, and use TiVo Desktop for playback of videos from your TiVo on your PC.
