How to Watch TV Shows/Tivo recordings on Samsung Galaxy S4

Imagine this: You just ordered a newly Samsung Galaxy S4 and would love to entertain yourself by watching Blu-ray/DVD on Galaxy S4, as well as TV shows recorded using a DVR like TiVo so you can enjoy yourself when waiting for bus, subway, or just killing time by watching videos on your recently purchased Smasung Galalxy S4. But how to make it possible to move these TiVo TV shows to your portable tablets and samrtphones including Samsung Galaxy S4 since this kind of video format .tivo is not acceptable by most devices? The best way is to transcode TiVo recordings to Galaxy S4 compatible .MP4 video format so you are able to watch TiVo recordings and many other video files on Samsung Galalxy S4.

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How to Convert and Put TiVo shows to Samsung Galaxy S4?

Step 1. Move TiVo TV shows to your local PC.

In the first place, you got to transfer shows from your TiVo DVR to your PC. TiVo Desktop software for the PC is required, and you can access the instructions on how to transfer TiVo file to PC from their website.

Step 2. Import TiVo recordings to the top Video to Samsung Galaxy S4 Converter.

This Best Video Converter for Galaxy S4 is recommended to you since it not only accept TiVo recordings as import file, it supports many other videos for successful import, such as MXF, MKV, TS, TOD, MOD, FLV, F4V, AVI, QuickTime MOV, VOB, MP4, MPG, MPEG, ASF, MVI, VP6, EVO, VRO, DV, MP3, AC3, MKA, WMA, WAV, M4A, OGG, APE and more.

After a successful installation of Pavtube Video Converter (Mac version is available for MAC OS users), click "Add Video" button to load your TiVo TV shows.

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Tips: If this is your first time to load TiVo recordings into Pavtube Video Converter, you need input Media Access Key first.

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Step 3. Select output format for Samsung Galaxy S4.

Click the dropdown list of "Format" and you can find at least one profile for your device and we recommend you to choose "Samsung > Samsung Galaxy S III Video (.mp4)" as output format. And for those who cannot find that profile for output devices, don't worry, this Best Tivo to Galaxy S4 Converter offers several common profiles for Android tablets/phones as well as Windows 8 tablets/phones.

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Tip 2: You are able to customize profile settings in Pavtube Tivo Converter for Galaxy S4. Click settings button next to Profile box to change output profile parameters like video codec, audio codec, video size, bit rate, framerate, etc.

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Step 4. Rewrap TiVo recordings to MP4 for Samsung Galaxy S4.

Click "Convert" icon on program main UI to start encoding your TiVo TV shows to H.264 MP4 for Samsung Galaxy S4. Once the conversion completes, click "Open" button to locate and get generated MP4 files for transferring Video files to Galaxy S4 for viewing whenever you want and wherever you are.