Hi Nan, 1.) You can't record a program without it's commercials. However there is a feature associated with the skip to tik feature on your remote control which will allow you to skip ahead 30 secs for each push. Usually you have to press it 4 times to skip ahead 2 minutes which is the usual length of a commercial. You can also skip ahead using the fast forward bottom depending on what you like. You need to enable the skip ahead function by first starting to play a recorded episode, then pressing Select, Play, Select 30 Select.
2.) One of the features of the TiVo is that it will record suggestions based on your viewing habits as it learns them. You can turn it off in the Messages and Settings area but it doesn't do any harm. The easy way to teach the Tivo which things you like and don't is to use your Thumbs UP or Down buttons to rate different shows. Hope this helps. Jay On Jan 10, 2008, at 7:43 PM, nevans52 wrote: > > 1) can you record just a program without its commercials? Somehow I > thought that was a tivo feature, but have not been able to find how to > do it. > > 2) why would our tivo want to compulsively record programs that we > don't watch, don't request, and do not want? It seems to be especially > fond of weird cartoon programs such as kim possible and power rangers, > but it also likes diego, and shows such as old reruns of crossing > jordan, which we never watch. Is there a setting somewhere that turns > off the unwanted recording schedule? It seems to want to do these > recordings at all hours of the day and night [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
