Once upon a time Dale shaped the electrons to say... > I am new to TiVo having just got one yesterday. How do you watch TV
Welcome to the cult... er, family. > with the tuner that is built into your TV set? I am used to a VCR and > they all have TV/VCR button, but with the TiVo I have to leave the TV > on channel 3 all the time. Am I doing something wrong or is this the > way it's supposed to be? > > By the way, I have extended basic cable with no cable box. Any help > will be greatly appreciated. It depends on your TV. If your TV has A/V inputs and RF input for the tuner, the best way to do it is to use an RF spliter on the cable. - Cable from wall to spliter - Spliter to TV RF input - this enables the TV's tuner - Spliter to TiVo's RF input - TiVo A/V output to TV's A/V input Now you switch between the TiVo and internal tuner by switching inputs on the TV. Optionally you could do: - Cable from wall to TiVo - Cable from TiVo to TV If the TiVo is in Standby/Sleep mode it will bypass the RF so you can use the TV's internal tuner. It gets a little confusion. DVD/TiVo combo units, or the Series2DT, are *always* in RF bypass mode, in Standby or not. They *require* an A/V connection to the TV as they have no internal RF modulator. Other Series1 or Series2 TiVos do have an RF modulator so when they're not in Standby they output the TiVo menus, etc, over the RF out connection. TiVos *will* record when in Standby mode, so don't worry about that. Still, if you can use an A/V connection instead of RF, do so. Connections in order of quality would be component video (on DVD units) -> S-Video -> composite video (RCA) -> RF. RF is your lowest quality option. -MZ -- megazone-at-megazone.org http://www.MegaZone.org/ Gweep, Geek, Human, me. http://www.GizmoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/ -><- Hail Eris "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171
