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![Roxio Toast 8 Titanium (Mac) [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kAj1bcViL._SL160_.jpg)
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2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 A Pleasant Surprise for Multimedia Software, 2008-01-17
I've read dozens of software reviews of Roxio software for the PC/Win that were far less than complimentary. I needed something to use with my TiVo, but the reviews were so bad, and I'd already been through torture using a Nero suite, that I skipped it. But recently Amazon had Toast on sale, and there was a rebate available as well.
Since the reviews seemed better than the PC products, for $40, I figured I'd give Toast 8 Titanium a shot on my MacBook.
I'm glad I did. It seems like it was made for TiVo. I was able to burn a DVD from a TiVo recording that couldn't do with a plethora of Windows utilities and programs, including some pretty capable hacks.
There is one program that reads my TiVo 'now playing' list with sizes, descriptions, and status. A few clicks and the shows were transferred to my hard drive. I browsed the list of transfers and there was a button at the bottom of the page that said 'Toast it'. Inserted a blank DVD, didn't change any settings, and presto! Played it on the computer and it worked fine. So I slipped in the DVD player for the acid test, and it was all there.
I have delved into the various features and functions of the software, but if it just worked with TiVo so seamlessly, I got my money's worth.
If you have a TiVo box of recent vintage (I have a Series 3, so don't know the capabilities of earlier boxes), and a Mac that supports Toast (again, I have a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.5 so don't know if it supports OS's before Tiger), it doesn't seem you can go wrong with Toast 8.
I also recently purchased a Slingbox. So I can watch anything on either of my two TiVos anywhere I can connect to the internet, or make a DVD to take with me to watch anywhere I can find a DVD player. Too bad this stuff wasn't available when I traveled a lot for business.
I'm in couch potato heaven. I am pleasantly surprised, and very pleased with this purchase.
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Don't buy this for TivoToGo, 2008-01-16
I bought this product explicitly for the TivoToGo feature (didn't need any of the other features) and, simply put, it doesn't work. I have three TiVos all of which are supposedly supported - at least they work on the PC version when I run Parallels. I have followed every suggestion on the Roxio support site (rebooted tivos, my mac, installed upgrades, etc.) but none of it has made any difference.
I recommend downloading the free "TiVoDecode Manager" software - its not perfect but it actually works.
Almost perfect, 2008-01-12
This is the best cd writing software I've ever used. The only problem is that if you update, you need to readd tivo to it. Otherwise, perfect.
 Best Toast yet, 2008-01-11
Toast compresses, encrypts and burns better than all the others. Best of all, it's finally given my Mac computer access to my Tivo's hard drive!
9 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
 Don't Buy for Tivo-to-Go, 2008-01-05
If you are thinking of buying Toast 8 to use the Tivo-to-Go feature to encode Tivo files for your iPod or to burn onto DVD, do not spend your money before checking out Tivo and Roxio discussion forums to see if some well-documented problems have been fixed.
Toast 8 worked well until the Tivo Fall '07 update was pushed out in October. Tivo files transferred since the update will usually play on your laptop or desktop, but there are serious problems with the export for iPod and DVD functions. At first, the export functions would not work at all in many cases. Roxio eventually got a fix out that allows it to work most of the time, but there is a continuing problem with audio synchronization. Audio is often out of sync with video by anywhere from a half second to three or four seconds.
The annoying thing is that it's completely unpredictable; some programs encode perfectly, some are all but unwatchable. There is no pattern except that 30-Minute programs seem to encode correctly more often than longer shows. My own experience is that you have about a 50/50 chance that it will work correctly.
There are alternatives out there; they may not be as fast or convenient as Toast 8, but they actually work every time. Popcorn 3, by the way, has the same set of problems.
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