What’s a Tivo? I’m sure you know all about Tivo. But someone uploaded a music video called “What’s a Tivo” and it’s a great time waster for a Friday. The lyrics are kind of funny and it’s just overall silliness.

The New York Times has a quick article about a new gadget called the iLuv i182, which converts video from your TV to an iPod.

It connects via an S-video port and records directly to an iPod’s hard drive. The i182 costs $229 .

During the VON show in San Jose, I spoke with a few companies in the Video Pavilion about their products. The Video Pavilion was this spot on the exhibit floor where companies were focusing on video, rather than VOIP products.

Here’s a short clip of Fan Rocket CEO Danny Kastner explaining, in his own unique way, what his company is all about.

P.S. You may know Danny Kastner as the guitar-playing guy from his appearance on the third season of the reality TV show, The Apprentice.

Chris Tew, formerly of PVR Wire, writes in WebTV Wire about what the DVR of the future would look like. Some of the things he lists are gimmes–features that current DVRs already perform, like pausing live TV and scheduling shows.

Others are more interesting such as:

• A podcast, vodcast aggregator. Tivo does Live365 Internet radio, but the ability to catch podcasts would be cool. I hate to admit it, but I’ve only started watching Rocketboom on my Tivo in the last six months. And I don’t really even try to watch Rocketboom on my computer. Go figure.

• A Web browser. Yes, I’ve always wanted that. As some commenters are saying, however, a home theater PC (HTPC) can do a lot of the things that Tew lists. This would be one of them. I already have a laptop in my living room, which works great since I don’t have to stop what I’m watching on TV.

• A recordable Blu-Ray or HD-DVD drive. I’ll take that too. They’re just too expensive right now. Heck, I’ll just take a Tivo with a built-in regular DVD drive.
  

• A unified search tool. Finding stuff on a DVR with lots of storage would be tough. Especially if it was hooked up to your home PCs. Attention Google: this could be an interested tool for DVRs.

• A video-on-demand rental service. Tivo already has Amazon’s Unbox service. And you likely have on-demand via your cable or sattelite provider. But a good seamless service would be great.

• Portable media player integration. There are legal hurdles, not technological ones. I want to hook up my iPod directly to my Tivo, with no middle device.

One thing I would like to add is the ability to create YouTube clips, directly from my Tivo remote. Then upload them to my YouTube account without ever having to go to my desktop computer.

According to HDTiVo, there’s a loophole that lets users download purchased Amazon Unbox movies to multiple Tivos in your house.

After buying an Unbox movie for downloading, you can choose multiple Tivos from the drop-down box.

“After doing that, a confirm page comes up (for me in a new tab) which I close. I am left with the prior thumbnail page that still has the drop down box. I can then choose another device to download to and click download…”

As ZatzNotFunny points out, you don’t have to do this, since “the license and content are transferable, but like many hacks that isn’t the point.”

[via ZatzNotFunny]