My daughter and her husband have a satellite system right now and
have problems that are being blamed on voltage in the house. We will see.
Plun in a UPS and eliminate that red herring.
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My watching habits are pretty simple and no one else here watches TV.
It's easy for me to program by the hour.
I was always afraid it wouldn't function if it couldn't call home.
Tom Piwowar wrote:
Are you saying you think I could just buy a Tivo unit and never go on
line with it or pay for
My watching habits are pretty simple and no one else here watches TV.
It's easy for me to program by the hour.
I was always afraid it wouldn't function if it couldn't call home.
I can't say that for sure because mine phones home several times an hour
polling for any instructions I've sent it
I've been using mine offline for 2 years without it having to phone
home. But I would worry about getting a new one. They may have added
the phone-home feature as a requirement.
Richard P.
My watching habits are pretty simple and no one else here watches TV.
It's easy for me to program by the
I am looking to see what folks might have used themselves to
accomplish similar goals
Something like an Apple TV to manage the downstairs push or to enable
later additional screens - I like it just works appliances - I spend far
too much time at work with my head in the software guts of
At first I thought this said the list had recommended a Tivo. Gotta be
_real_ careful reading these threads.
I don't remember - did the list achieve a consensus?
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Based on what people told me on this List I decided that the
No but I do remember a number of us who do have Tivo did recommend it.
It is only good if you have cable. The satellite folks have their
own DVR's now. (One of them lost a huge lawsuit filed by Tivo.)
My daughter and her husband have a satellite system right now and
have problems that are
It is only good if you have cable.
I'm using OTA and it works fine. I have close to 40 channels to choose
from (not counting stations carrying the same feed). I'm happy with that.
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I don't remember - did the list achieve a consensus?
Consensus? This List? Ha ha ha!
Let's just say that the List provided some very useful information and I
acted on it.
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Will mention that too them.
Stewart
At 01:53 PM 9/6/2008, you wrote:
My daughter and her husband have a satellite system right now and
have problems that are being blamed on voltage in the house. We will see.
Plun in a UPS and eliminate that red herring.
You are in a great area then.
Many of the places I lived did not get that option. When I lived in
Western WI. we had good over the air, but had to use a rotor to get
all these stations. (MN/SPL, Lacrosse, Eau Claire)
When I lived in Southern Ontario (Buffalo, Ham. Toronto, Erie)
But in
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Matthew Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
A Tivo is high on my possibility list. I have heard though that they won't
work so well with the variety of cable cards that Comcast uses. Anyone have
any knowledge on that?
Anyone know if TIVO can offload to external
I have two series 2 Tivo's and have them hooked into my home network
via wireless USB.
I can download any program from one TIVO to my puter and play it
there, or copy it to my other TIVO and watch it there.
Stewart
At 03:54 PM 9/6/2008, you wrote:
Look around the TiVO community forum
The Tivo was probably a good choice. I've never liked the fact that Tivo
_has_ to go online, and that you have to pay for it every month. They
should allow it to be programmed like a VCR.
I had considered Tivo, Dish TV, and Eye TV for years but just kept
putting off getting any kind of the new
A Tivo is high on my possibility list. I have heard though that they
won't work so well with the variety of cable cards that Comcast uses.
Anyone have any knowledge on that?
My Tivo has slots for 2 cable cards (so it can record 2 programs at once).
Anyone know if TIVO can offload to
I am not sure that TIVO even has a network connection
beyond the one they use to connect to home - that is I don't know if
they make the DVR accessible over the network to the owner.
I have not tried this, but they claim that if you have more than one Tivo
on your network you can access the
Yes yes and yes. (series 2 and above)
I do it regularly.
You can copy programs between units and watch. Depending on your
connection you can do it while transferring or wait till it is done.
I can access programs from any of the TIVO's on my home network. You
must download the TIVO
The Tivo was probably a good choice. I've never liked the fact that Tivo
_has_ to go online, and that you have to pay for it every month.
I paid a lump sum for a lifetime of service.
They should allow it to be programmed like a VCR.
You can do that. I have done that for programs that were not
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.
That's what I do with mine. Works great that way. Just like a VCR,
without the tape failure.
Richard P.
Jordan 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?
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
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?
Yes you could. It has that feature, but I think the option is too painful
to contemplate. That would be going
No they require a subscription. Part of that is to pacify Hollyweed
and the copyright nazis.
They won't sell it to you without a subscription. But if you cancel the
sibscription they will not come to your house to take away your Tivo.
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Jordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, could there be differences between different manufacturers?
Does anyone else think a Tivo machine can be used without a subscription?
Richard, did you ever let yours go online to activate it, or did you
activate it in some
Another interesting thing about the Tivo is ...
Also nice is the ability to get content over the Internet.
Interesting ... Can you get non-US channels like the BBC World Service
and Canadian cable channels (ie: ATN)?
BTW, anyone tried TVAnts or SopCast?
If you have it hooked up to your network, I am sure it is a series
2. Series 2 and above have the capabilities to hook them up to the network.
I have two. One is a humax (says so on the remote) I am not sure of
the branding of the other, but the humax is a 40 hour single
tuner. The other
Interesting ... Can you get non-US channels like the BBC World Service
and Canadian cable channels (ie: ATN)?
WNVT-DT has 8 channels of international programming, much of it news. If
you want to watch Nigerian TV, we got it. Polish. Indian. I don't recall
seeing any Canadian though.
No they require a subscription. Part of that is to pacify Hollyweed and the
copyright nazis.
One of my friends has a Tivo he got a few years ago with a lifetime
subscription--no monthly fees ever. Tivo honors those original contracts
but eliminated them for new customers--until this year.
Anyone have any thoughts or recommendations at all?
On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Matthew Taylor wrote:
All;
Time for the Taylor household to do an audio-visual technology
refresh, and to do that I need a refresher from the knowledgeable
folks on this list.
What I currently have:
Comcast
If you can re-phrase the post to ask one specific question -
preferably not about a specific brand or model of equipment - you
stand a better chance of an answer.
Nobody on the list is going to be able to draw you a diagram how to
rig up your whole house. Contact your TV provider for those
Household diagram not what I am asking for.
I am looking to see what folks might have used themselves to
accomplish similar goals - no different than the frequent how do I
accomplish goal X questions on the list.
I know how to do any of the things I have asked from a technical
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