Tivo - experiences?

[Alan L.]

TIVO/DirectTV is great! I have built a movie library of about 100 DVDs so far, since last July when I got the TIVO machine for $250 at Circuit City. Paid about 400 for the DVD recorder. Its great too.

My unit will record 2 programs at once, but only after I get two cables run to it, which I have not yet done.

 

[bebster]

I'd love to expand my Tivo to 120GB of storage. Can you give me some pointers how I might go about doing that?

 

[MadReferee]

Go to this web site. They are the BEST in the business for doing TIVO upgrades.

TIVO upgrades here

 

[slowrev]

Tivo has just made a deal with Neilson to provide viewer data for a fee.

 

[PBMAX]

Sendereo with DirecTV the service is 4.95 per month for the whole house. So no matter haw many TIVO u have its 4.95. Plus the program info comes over the SAT not the phone. The phone is for pay per view and transmitting out what you watch... I left mine unplugged from the phone for the 1st week and all the programming still showed up within 3 days.

 

[Ibrahim]

I would be thrilled if the networks actually used services like TiVo to show what people REALLY wanted to watch rather than just basing them on the old-ratings system.

People WATCH something not because it's what they really want to watch, but it's what is on. But maybe they'll get a taste of what most people want to watch based on what shows TiVo records.

Personally, I have no problem with my TiVo data being used for such purposes.

-Ibrahim

 

[PBMAX]

yeah I don't mind if they see what I watch. If they truly use it to put out more progems that I would like to see.

I think the biggest complaint comes from Marketing folks. Cause now you only have offset your Tv Watching by 10 min and you could easily skip most if not all comercials. There is even a company trying ot get stations to do continues adds on the top or bottom 1" or so of the screen while you watch your favorite shows /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif. Do to the skip feature of PVR's. Me I would just put some thing over the bar to black it out...If it was wasted on Comercials why would it matter. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[PBMAX]

Have had the detect if phone is in use option set to On and so far the wife has not complained about being bumped of the dial up....

I do whish they had put 2 out puts to the TV on the DIRTV TIVO to go with the 2 tuners so I could use them with the PIP feature of my Sony TV. Rather than having to hit info and choosing the other tuner.

Have seen the color flicker in odd ways when watching a recording. Not often but can be odd to watch. I have found if I hit the 8sec rewind it goes away.

The remote could have been better designed. No options for VCR, AUDIO, OR other devices. Just the TV pwer and input and have not yet found a Universal remote that says outright it will control a TIVO with all its function. Am considering a $20 learning remote by Phillips at Lowes...

Any body found a uni remote worth trying...???

 

[fishman]

Pburns that is a good question. I currently don't have tivo and run all of my entertainment stuff through a multifunction digital tuner amplifier thingy (someone please help me with the terminology /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif) Anyway, short answer is that I control everything with the remote for that item and it has additional inputs that I assume could be used for hooking up a tivo unit. Will this work? It's a slightly different problem than Pburns, I believe, but similar.

And I have checked out the tivo forums. Unbelievable. How can people spend so much time talking about something like tivo when there's really interesting forums out there talking about interesting stuff like tractors. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I understand about every 5th word or so. Gaaaa.

 

[MadReferee]

I have the Sony Integrated Remote Commander. Its a touch screen remote that is programmable and it runs my Sony Tivo and all the other Sony gear just fine. Crutchfield sells them for $169.

Sony RM-AV3000 Touch Screen Remote