On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Scott Sipe wrote:
Devices have had this ability for years. My ReplayTV (early competitor to Tivo, probably got it around 1998-1999 and it still works! SDTV only, but it automatically skips commercials!) has an Infrared controller--a wire which plugins into the ReplayTV and then you tape one end over the front of the DVR...then pick the type of the DVR and it (hopefully) knows how to change the channel. Slingplayer has the exact same thing.
Yes, but you need to keep your cable company box instead of replacing it with the TiVo.
That is how the series 2 TiVo worked for me. The series 3 has the ability to plug in cable cards and to *BE* the cable box. The only thing is switched digital doesn't work without a tuning adaptor.
Christopher Fisk -- Fry: Michelle, I don't regret this, but I both rue and lament it.
