No they require a subscription. Part of that is to pacify Hollyweed
and the copyright nazis.
Even the ones from the satellite folks are not free your subscription
is part of your satellite service.
Windows has a few programs and I believe Media Center was set up to
record programs. But they are not as sophisticated as the TIVO or
the Satellite DVR's are.
As long as Hollyweed controls our media they will make us pay for
luxuries such as TIVO's.
Stewart
At 06:21 PM 9/6/2008, you wrote:
Just to clarify:
Are you saying you think I could just buy a Tivo unit and never go
on line with it or pay for their service, and just program it by
start time and duration? Or something like that?
Tom Piwowar wrote:
They should allow it to be programmed like a VCR.
You can do that. I have done that for programs that were not listed
correctly by the programming service. This happens in times of
special programming, like Olympics or political conventions. But it
is so much easier to use the program grid. The Tivo also applies
some intelligence when programmed via the grid. (I have not yet
worked out the logic of what it does, but it does not literally
follow the program grid.)
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