Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-06 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
I have some stuff that is years old and have watched dozens of times with my daughter. No DRM restrictions there; although, I have lost a TiVO full of stuff in a hard drive crash There is a DRM option in the TiVO software for forced deletion after a fixed time determined by a flag set by the

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-06 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Tom I have to correct myself All but the last is FALSE. Stewart At 06:00 PM 12/5/2007, you wrote: I read that they enforce a very broad interpretation of DRM. That Tivo enforces automatic deletion after you play a program. That the program owner can set it to automatically delete shows after

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-06 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
The upside on the reports back to the mothership is that they are to be used to generate the data for suggestions and Neilsen was using it for ratings. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/26/technology/26adco.html I think the Series 3 might need to maintain a phone line to get guide data. Tom I

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-06 Thread Tom Piwowar
Tom I have to correct myself All but the last is FALSE. Thank you. You had me scratching my head. This is good news. Most of the reasons I have been avoiding Tivo are not problems and I get some very useful new features.

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-06 Thread Tom Piwowar
There is a DRM option in the TiVO software for forced deletion after a fixed time determined by a flag set by the network programmers. It hasn't been used much There was a hullabaloo about it a few years ago when a few local programmers set it on a few programs. No one has said much about it

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-06 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
Neither one of mine have a phone line attached it is all done via the net. (Series 2) Stewart At 07:57 AM 12/6/2007, you wrote: The upside on the reports back to the mothership is that they are to be used to generate the data for suggestions and Neilsen was using it for ratings.

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-06 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
There are all sorts of ways to set up record flags for things. It is called Wish list on TiVO. You can track almost anything and anyone you want. There are some set categories and words you enter. I have friend from High School who is an actor and I follow her career this way. Between Wish

[CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
So buy an ATSC converter intended for televisions and go on using your DVR which will likely quite happily accept the signal from the converter and record it, then play it back in glorious NTSC. If you wait, you can even get coupons likely to be worth $40-$50 to apply to the purchase of two

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
If you are ready to jump Circuit city has a 5 hour deal today for a $239 Series 3 TiVO. http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=376938 On Dec 5, 2007 2:43 PM, John Duncan Yoyo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know much about Series 3 but I love my Series 2 DirecTV TiVo's but

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I have TIVO and just recently added my second box. What you heard is correct and wrong. If the interface is the same as mine (No HD not available in our area.) Tivo's are set to erase programs after a set time to free up room on your DVR. You can mark programs to keep until you delete them

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
I don't know much about Series 3 but I love my Series 2 DirecTV TiVo's but there was a dawg of a system upgrade that came down the pike a few months ago. DTV controls the upgrades on these units and they are slow about it since they stopped selling DTiVO's in favor of their own machine which is

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
If you are ready to jump Circuit city has a 5 hour deal today for a $239 Series 3 TiVO. Thanks, but if Circuit City has a deal for $239 I'm sure someone on the 'net will have it for $199. Circuit City I have never seen a good deal at Circuit City.

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
I've done both the kit from Weaknees and prepared my own harddrive and installed it. Weaknees has excellent instructions on the website for the installation of the disc drive in a variety of machines. That's one of the winning features of the Series 3: they have an eSATA port. From the user

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Piwowar
Tivo's are set to erase programs after a set time to free up room on your DVR My Replay can be set to save a certain number of shows and will delete the oldest when a new show arrives. This is reserved space and is independent of anything else going on in the box. Can Tivo do this? I do this

Re: [CGUYS] DVRs [Was: No Internet for You [Was: MS IE 7]

2007-12-05 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
At 05:22 PM 12/5/2007, you wrote: My Replay can be set to save a certain number of shows and will delete the oldest when a new show arrives. This is reserved space and is independent of anything else going on in the box. Can Tivo do this? Possible I have not totally played with it yet. My