What is TiVo working on?

That TiVo is looking for a new Senior Software Engineer who will be responsible for transferring "video content between TiVo and other devices (Windows, Mac, portable media players, phones, etc.)," i.e.
TiVoToGo, isn't all that shocking given the news from earlier today (though it is encouraging to see them listing support for Mac on there), but what is a little weird is that they're also expecting this person to work on "Transcoding from various formats (MPEG-4, QuickTime, AVC, DivX, etc.) to TiVo MPEG-2." We can't think of many reasons to transcode into TiVo MPEG-2 (the other way around is another story entirely), so it sounds like—and we could be completely wrong here—they could be looking at ways to take video that's downloaded from the internet and play it back on a TiVo box. Or something along those lines, we're sort of scratching our heads over this one. Any thoughts?

[Thanks, Dave]