"First the good news. TiVo is now bundling a software player to view TiVo-recorded shows on WindowsXP." Good, because I had a lot of trouble playing .tivo files on my desktop with a free codec. As it is, my TiVo and laptop still can't see each other. Only the TiVo and the desktop.

"Second a little more good news. It seems they are phasing out the TiVo Playback Password as it is redundant and probably due to the bad news." Yay, sort of.

"The bad news is that apparently TiVo has created some sort of ‘access control list’ preventing certain applications, such as Dr. DivX and TMPGEnc, from accessing .tivo files. Sonic MyDVD still works fine for burning TiVoToGo files to DVD, so I believe that Tivo’s strategy might be to identify programs being used to manipulate video and then block them to prevent conversion and/or removal of the DRM."
Does this mean that Nero may still burn them? I don't want to pay for Sonic's product just to burn my tivo files.