I use it with GMP cable and it doesn't cost me anything through my cable provider. I pay 12.95 for the TIVO service per month which updates your listings and records the shows. Other than that I paid 100.00 for mine at Circuit City and love it. You can do searches on actors or key words that you are interested in such as "weddings" and it will recored every show relating to that word, or it will give you a list to choose from. The best part is the ability to fast forward through commercials and pause and rewind LIVE TV. Its great for sports because if you miss something, rewind it, and play back in slow motion. You can also set it up to record one show and watch another so if you want to record soaps, and hubby hates them, you can watch something else an come back to it. Its wonderful.
Anyone gotta TiVo?
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BTE
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Thanks for all of the information. We will soon be a TiVo family. It sounds great! I will wait, at Danzig's recommendation, for the new one to come out after the first of the year.
TivoNut or Danzig...I too have DIRECTV.....now hang in here with me...I'm not a very technical person.....if I understand correctly, I have to have the Tivo either hooked up to a phone line or cable modem (or something like that)?? Is one way better than the other? Is this something that I could hook up myself, or do I need to have someone install it for me?
TivoNut or Danzig...I too have DIRECTV.....now hang in here with me...I'm not a very technical person.....if I understand correctly, I have to have the Tivo either hooked up to a phone line or cable modem (or something like that)?? Is one way better than the other? Is this something that I could hook up myself, or do I need to have someone install it for me?
Danzig
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You want, no you NEED two cable lines from the satellite to the Tivo. That way you can use the 2 built in tuners and record two things at once and watch a third show that you have previously recorded. You do not need to hook it up to a cable modem, it has a phone line hooked to it just like a regular Direct TV box. It gets all of its programming info at night via satellite not from the phone line.
BTE said:
Currently, you must have the phoneline attached, unless you were to hack the unit with the new 4.x software, or if DTV ever gets off their butt and pushes it out to DirecTV users. If/when that happens, it can use the broadband connection to contact Tivo, but still uses the phoneline for calling DirecTV. Kinda convoluted.
Danzig: Please forward more information about the "new" DirecTivo units due out at the beginning of the new year. Thx.
Danzig
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Danzig said:
Thanks. Unfortunately, the only thing this unit appears to offer over current models is 80gb and a rearrangement of the ports. Too bad, they still don't get it.
You said in another post that you had upgraded one of your DirecTivo's to 150 hours. Are you running an lba48 kernel?
If it's a DirecTivo (and you haven't replaced the kernel manually), then you have a LBA24 kernel, which has a limit of 137GB addressable space. You could put a 240GB drive in, but it can only address the first 137GB. If you go to System Information, you can see your total storage space in hours, it'll probably read about 119 or 120 hours.
BTE
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Wow...totally Greek to me......I don't think anyone answered me before, about whether or not it was something I could install myself or whether I had to have someone do it...but the more I hear you talk...the more skeered I get!!TivoNut said:
I guess I better hire someone to get my Tivo going. Unless you or Danzig plan on being in the Orlando area anytime soon!
BTE said:Wow...totally Greek to me......I don't think anyone answered me before, about whether or not it was something I could install myself or whether I had to have someone do it...but the more I hear you talk...the more skeered I get!!
I guess I better hire someone to get my Tivo going. Unless you or Danzig plan on being in the Orlando area anytime soon!
Nah, it's not hard. As long as you have the 2 lines run (if your a DirecTV user), then it's a piece of cake (and most installers don't understand a Tivo anyway). If you are a DirecTV user, you can but it directly from them, and it includes install.
Danzig
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It is a DirecTivo and I did not replace the kernal. It has the 40gig that came with is and I added a 120gig. When I go to System Information It shows 150something hours, and my other Tivo I took out the 40gig and put in a single 200gig drive that I got cheap and it shows 120 hours in System Information.TivoNut said:
Danzig said:
Ah, that 'splains it. Max addressable size is 137GB per drive, so 119hrs. each, for a total maximum of about 240 hrs. I don't know why I thought you had a single drive in there. If you go to a lba48 kernel, you can get true size from your drives (i.e. if you had 2x240gb, w/ the lba24 kernel, you get 240 hrs. but with the lba48, you'd get 420 hrs.).
Danzig
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Now they want to go and mess it up.
Bad news for Tivo owners.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&e=20&u=/latimests/tivowillnolongerskippastadvertisers
By March, TiVo viewers will see "billboards," or small logos, popping up over TV commercials as they fast-forward through them, offering contest entries, giveaways or links to other ads. If a viewer "opts in" to the ad, their contact information will be downloaded to that advertiser — exclusively and by permission only — so even more direct marketing can take place.
By late 2005, TiVo expects to roll out "couch commerce," a system that enables viewers to purchase products and participate in surveys using their remote controls.
Perhaps even more significant is TiVo's new role in market research. As viewers watch, TiVo records their collective habits and sells that information to advertisers and networks. (It was TiVo that quantified the effect of Janet Jackson's Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction," reporting a 180% increase in the number of replays reported by viewers.)
Bad news for Tivo owners.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&e=20&u=/latimests/tivowillnolongerskippastadvertisers
By March, TiVo viewers will see "billboards," or small logos, popping up over TV commercials as they fast-forward through them, offering contest entries, giveaways or links to other ads. If a viewer "opts in" to the ad, their contact information will be downloaded to that advertiser — exclusively and by permission only — so even more direct marketing can take place.
By late 2005, TiVo expects to roll out "couch commerce," a system that enables viewers to purchase products and participate in surveys using their remote controls.
Perhaps even more significant is TiVo's new role in market research. As viewers watch, TiVo records their collective habits and sells that information to advertisers and networks. (It was TiVo that quantified the effect of Janet Jackson's Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction," reporting a 180% increase in the number of replays reported by viewers.)