“Snarky, let me introduce you to something. Now, I know it can’t take the place of Capt. UberHusband, but it will most definitely take up some of your free time and prevent you from doing a dorky Army-themed scrapbook you and Dell keep joking about. It’s called…Tivo2Go. Now, go sit down and get to know each other.”

Oh. My. God. Can I tell you how awesome this is? We unloaded DirectTV and are now just going with Plain Old Cable…but we bought a new Tivo box that supports Tivo2Go, which basically allows me to download shows from our Tivo to either of our computers since everything is networked together.

Now, it’s not a quick process. I transferred Desperate Housewives and Grey’s Anatomy and it took about three hours. But hey…it’s all in how much you value your television programming.

The best part? I can burn the shows that I download to DVD. We decided to get this Tivo box and a new rewritable DVD drive because I couldn’t bear the thought of Capt. UberHusband going for more than a day overseas without having access to his favorite television shows (yes, we’ll be getting him a laptop…please don’t steal it). VHS tapes are antiquated, bulky and don’t really fit into the standard laptop CD-ROM/DVD drive, so we thought we’d pull ourselves into the current millenium.

And…there you have it. You’ve got a couple of options with how to handle the “burning.” You can either burn the shows to DVD and have them show up with a menu and all that, but there’s this thing called transcoding that, for two hours of programming, literally takes nine hours from start to finish. The downside is, obviously, that it takes ten times longer to process than to actually watch, but the upside is you can watch the shows in any DVD player.

The other option is to just transfer the raw files over to the DVD as data files and watch them from a laptop. You’ll need the Tivo Desktop or a special codec (I think) to view the files but, therein lies the beauty of portability. I can take my laptop to the pool and watch 30 Minute Meals…or out in the backyard…or on an airplane!

{{demonic giggles}}

This is almost better than the whole power of attorney thing!

Anyhoo…I didn’t get a specific request for Bahston Rahb & Ambuh Of Da Smokin’ Ass Get Hitched, but I’ve got Tivo cranked up to tape the season finale of Lost tomorrow night and then…that’s about it until this Fall.

Oh no…what am I going to watch?