This is the thread where Tivo owners reprazent!

you gotta love the picture-perfect 60x fast forward on Tivos, gets you over those adverts (and the horrible bits that make up 75% of any given episode of TOTP2) in seconds flat.

at the moment mine seems to have more radio programs (bbc7 via the otherwise dull freeview) scheduled than tv programs... spent the weekend catching up with series 6 of buffy...

andy

I was talking to this client in her house and she was watching some dramatic soap opera type show about witches. Apparently the thing comes on twice a day and three times on weekends so she'll TIVO a whole bunch of them and will watch several episodes at a time.

I totally wouldn't have a life outside of the living room. Yeah, that's it! I don't WANT TIVO!!!

*sigh* Yes, I do...

They can have my DirecTiVo satellite system when they pry the remote from my... ah you know how it goes.

http://www.tivo.com/help

He's a bit of a TiVo fan, that one.

(apparently my cable provider is soon going to have it's own HD recorder/cable boxes so this is probably moot, but I gather there is some ease of use with Tivo)

You can only record one channel at a time but you can watch something already recorded while you record something else. Honestly channels repeat things so much I rarely have a conflict. DirectTV Tivo apparently does let you record two things at once though: http://www.tivo.com/1.6.1.asp#7

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/09/technology/09net.html

"TiVo, the maker of a popular digital video recorder, plans to announce a new set of Internet-based services today that will further blur the line between programming delivered over traditional cable and satellite channels and content from the Internet. It is just one of a growing group of large and small companies that are looking at high-speed Internet to deliver video content to the living room. "

"The new TiVo technology, which will become a standard feature in its video recorders, will allow users to download movies and music from the Internet to the hard drive on their video recorder. Although the current TiVo service allows users to watch broadcast, cable or satellite programs at any time, the new technology will make it possible for them to mix content from the Internet with those programs. "

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=569&e=13&u=/nm/column_pluggedin_dc

Correct. The DirecTiVo let's you record two things and watch a third simultaneously. (i have one)

Truly, this is television's golden age.

http://www.szemle.film.hu/kepek/imgdb/2003_2/c%C3%A9lpont/aphex_twin.jpg

We had to turn its automatic "let me record something I think you'll like" powers off, because it was picking weird stuff. Just because I snagged some Miyazaki does not mean I want 8 hours of Nickelodeon, thankyouvmuch.

just bought this. Let's see if it does the one thing i want it to do, which is save me time watching NFL games.

there isn't a bigger thread on this? I'm totally gay for my tivo right now.

i tried to argue w/ friends last night that tivo is the greatest invention of the 21st century.

i have a dvr now. the only drawback (which is such an infinitesimal complaint on the grand spectrum of complaints) is not being able to "tape" more than two programs that air at the same time. there's too much tv to choose from!

I had a feeling you were the one who revived this

hey, good news here in the uk - virgin media have taken up tivo service and you can now preorder them.

oh, wait, it's £35 a month, more than my gas and electricity bills together. and they're turning off the episode guide data for those of us still recording 5+hrs a day on our series 1 tivos, effectively making them doorstops.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/15/2354228/TiVo-To-Brick-All-Remaining-UK-PVRs-On-June-1

8(

they've just turned off the guide data phoneline for uk series 1 tivos.

although it appears the alternate non-free number still works. and there's also a community effort to roll our own (which is 95% of the way there, hindered slightly by only having one modem serving 250 people)

(have bought a DigitalStream PVR in the meantime. twin tuners, freeview+, hd. remote has about 100 buttons on it, all of them tiny. user interface problems galore. and it has locked up mid-programme twice already (although it did appear to keep recording the second time))

do these still exist in the US? I thought tivos got murdered here when every cable company came out with its own DVR

they are going great guns in the states - oprah and jon stewart talk about theirs all the time 8). the us models did evolve past series 1 though, are more media centres than just vcrs.

why is tivo so slow, why goddamnit, why?!

hurry up apple already

~flash~