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- The_Wallbanger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+40PPoff: If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand. Once you've had a taste of a DVR, you become dependent on it.
- BoneyB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38Does anyone remember life before DVRs?
Man, that was torture. - wbrooks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Sports is great for PVRs... Start watching the game 1/2 an hour after it starts and you can fast forward through all the commercials, and the intermissions if you like. Get a phone call during the last 2 minutes? Pause it.
Want to see a play again? Rewind it.
Don't agree with a ref's call? Rewind it and check it out.
Sports is MUCH better with a PVR. - Antialias, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19PPoff: Imagine if you had a schedule for every time you went to the bathroom. You could only go once or twice a day at the scheduled times. Now imagine that you can go anytime you like.
Not the best analogy, but having your shows time shifted is like night and day. I haven't watched a show on live TV in 2-3 years. - briguymaine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12My 4 year old can't grasp the concept of a show being on at a specific time, she has all of her shows at her fingertips whenever she wants them thanks to Tivo. And she knows how to run it, she helps out the grandparents when they come over.
Makes me think, "back in my day..." - ipxodi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12PPoff, Antialias used the term "live TV" which to DVR users means a watching a TV show when it's actually on -- that is; not recorded and watched later. So he hasn't watched a TV show while it was actually being broadcast in years...
- JohnnyHuh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11My wife was very, very skeptical of the Tivo before I bought it and now is absolutely enamored of the thing! More so since the hard drive upgrade! This is a great post too because there are quite a few tips and tricks I wasn't aware of and will definitely be putting into practice!
- crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10When, when, when are you people going to realize, you can't talk about your mom on the Internet without opening yourself up to jokes about your mom?
- bightchee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10<BLINK>12:00</BLINK>
- jmkiii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8i think that DVR makes the biggest difference when it comes to sports. Have you ever wanted to watch a replay when, for some strange reason, the broadcast director doesn't want to show it to you?
There have been so many times where I have been pissed about not being able to see what happened on a play. DVR fixes that. - Motobike_man, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8OMG PPoff:
DVR is awesome for sports! Pause and instant replay on your terms, not the announcers terms.
But judging from your comments, you aren't tivo's market so it doesn't matter.
Also, Antialias said "live" TV - smackfu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8The time between football plays is exactly the same as the 30-second skip. You can watch all the actual football in about 40 minutes.
- MacsBaine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6PPoff: I'm a fellow sports nut. I love using my TIVO. First and foremost, don't have to wait for a commercial when my body is done with my beer. Don't have to rely on the networks instant replay, pause when the cheerleaders are on, record the morning SportsCenter so I can watch in about 15 minutes (skipping commercials and all the parts that don't interest me).
Oh, one more thing, with TIVO I do a wishlist for my teams and it will find shows on them and record them. Find a lot of shows I wouldn't see otherwise.
Now, if you don't want a DVR that is totally your purgative. Don't know why all these others are going so overboard. - yourfault1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I watch all kinds of TV, mostly Sports, and 'serial shows' like Lost, 24, Heroes... DVR changed the way I watch all shows.
SPORTS INCLUDED! There's an amazing little button on my comcast DVR that rewinds the show by 15 seconds. You learn to use this so much that when you watch TV elsewhere, it's painful to live without. Instead of yelling at the CBS/FOX/NBC/ABC producers for not showing you that football replay and instead go to yet another commercial with Peyton Manning, press the almighty 15-second rewind and find out whether that Receiver got two feet down before even the Ref has gone under the hood! Are you at the end of another boring Sunday Night Football game when John Madden somehow manages to compare running a route in football to how he used to xerox copies of his butt when he was an intern for the Raiders? Click the 'button of all buttons' and get the exact wording down so that you can talk about it in the deadspin comments later.
What about those serial shows I talked about? How is DVR useful for this? Well, when 24 decides to show 4 hours of adrenaline-fueled action within 26 hours of real life, you really have to think about your schedule. Not if you have a Series-Recording set up on your DVR! Of course you'll want to watch before water-cooler discussions the next day at the office, but if you need to make a beer (or pee) run during a commercial, or you're waiting for wifey to get home before starting the show (and then catch up to it by fast-forwarding commercials!) then you have the power!
I also love it because it's SO EASY to record things. Is a good South Park episode coming on at 2am? Click a couple of times and the next time you're channel-surfing and NOTHING is on, enjoy watching Scott Tenorman eat his parents, all while skipping commercials, and not getting up to browse through your DVDs!
PPOff: If you ever played NES when you were younger, think of DVR being the Nintendo Power that taught you how everyone ELSE was able to beat Contra! - BoneyB, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8PPoff, with SPORTS you have a point. Who wants to watch a game if itsn't live?
That's the reason why sports programming is now charging a huge premium to advertisers--the advertisers know people won't just TiVo through the ads. - mohaine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yes. At least some of them can.
I've installed the Zipper with no issues.
http://www.mastersav.com/tivo_zipper.html - Anand999, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5At least in the DirecTivo case, Myth TV doesn't make sense economically. The DirecTivo subscription fee is $5/month. If you wanted to build a MythTV box and retain dual tuners, you'd have to pony up for a second DirecTV receiver... which also runs $5/month. So there is zero month cost savings going with MythTV vs. DirecTivo if you want to keep dual tuner capability (and who wouldn't?).
Then there's the video quality issue. DirecTivo units record the encoded satellite signal directly and then decode on the fly when you're playing back the recording. This avoids a lossy transcoding step. On a DirecTivo, recorded programs are 100% identical in quality to live programs. - DJMajickman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Umm PPoff you're an id10t.
"I haven't watched a show on live TV in 2-3 years." (Antialias) that's live TV not TV in general. I haven't watched live TV in like 3+ years either it's all Tivo'd so I can do other things. Also with dual tuners you can record two shows that are on at the same time. And with the series 3 HDTV...ahhh soooo nice... - eurokc98, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I will not go back. I watch mostly sports, have a dual tuner tivo. I can watch 2 games at once (typically there are 2 games on at a time) and not miss any action. I just pause one and switch to the other while the commercials start and then do the same for the other. 30 second skip is a must.
Sports has never been better with a Tivo, reason enough to get one. - adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Can these be done on a DirectTV Tivo?
- puskar49, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"I just don't see how DVR is going to revolutionize my experience."
Have kids. - crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The schedule grid is downloaded by satellite. The only reason you need the phone hooked up is to download software upgrades and make PPV purchases via the OSD.
- SteelChicken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was looking into all those links and forum entries, but I couldn't find the obvious question, how does the Hacked Tivo get program schedule information? They talk about disconnecting the phone line so the OS wont revert/upgrade...so...how do you get the actual Tivo service?
- AeroSquid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Great for TiVo owners but the majority of DVR users have boxes supplied by their cable companies. Hack Time Warners DVR and i'll care a lot more.
- blogspinner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't have a TiVo, but I do use an external TV tuner card. Though what the TiVo has that interests a geek like me is the statistical analysis stuff. I can't get that from my tuner card.
- Jrr6415sun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I replaced the 40GB harddrive on my tivo with a 250GB harddrive and it is heaven.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4A lot of that info is outdated. I suggest looking around the various forums and such for the easy install systems like the Zipper and so forth to install your hacks. Less chance of you breaking stuff.
- wunch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, some of the hacks listed have better ways of doing them. For example, tip #6. I have never used GoToTivo (I have a DirecTivo, which doesn't support Tivo To Go, even if hacked), but there is a great program called Tivoserver (tivoserver.sourceforge.net) that will not only serve video files from your PC to your Tivo, but also convert them to the proper format on the fly and without the need for manual transcoding.
- hagrin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If you can't see how a DVR is the best invention ever for a sports fanatic, then you've never had a girlfriend who during the Final Four decides that now is the only time to watch Mona Lisa Smiles and if you don't watch it with her she's going to start crying or nagging or using your credit card to go on an online shopping spree.
Life before TiVo was so hard - I owe a lot of avoided fights with the ball and chain due to the TiVo. - satelliteears, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can't believe these hacks existed and i actually knew nothing of them. I thought it is impossible.
- Shrue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, just use your Tivo desktop and VideoReDo, as described below. Doesn't matter which satellite or cable company you subscribe to, the Tivo recroding is the same proprietary format. You need VideoReDo (and not that other moronic program) to translate the tivo format into mp3 or vob so that you can burn your own DVDs.
- ramd3z, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have a Dlink DSM-320 Wireless Media Player....anyone know of any linux hacks for this? I'm not too impressed by it and haven't used it in heard (might even be the 220).... I'd love to get inside of it with something besides a hammer.
- unoriginal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Zipper is great. One feature that it enables is multi-room viewing if you have more than on DirecTivo. I can record something in the bedroom and watch it on my Tivo in the living room, its great! Or if I have a conflict on one Tivo it will offer to record it on the other, its like have a Tivo with four tuners.
- diggapleeeze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Tivo plus slingbox is heaven. Whether travelling or at work (during lunch of course) I can now catch up on missed shows and can even program my tivo on my laptop. Next up will be a Windows smartphone to watch wherever I go!
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Heh, I still use a VCR but only to record stuff and playback. I don't have a TiVo, Replay, etc. I do have a computer that has a software PVR (DVB VIewer) for my HDTV tuner. I used to use ATI's MultiMedia Center (MMC) for my Radeon 9800 Pro AIW card. I just hate the subscription fees in TiVo and others. I don't even have cable and satellite (good old rabbit ears and bowtie antennae).
- SteelChicken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks crawfishsoul, thats good to know and makes the idea of hacking the unit much less scary.
- Minnelli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Most of these won't work on the Series 3 Tivo. I really miss the ability to transfer video's from my pc.
- t-readyroc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Man oh man do I wish I'd've done some research before I suggested this R10 as a Christmas gift :(
- digital_ron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thank you...My wife try to make me seem like I was crazy because I did that.
- agrahimi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does anyone know where you can still find the DirecTivo HR10-250 (tivo hd box) without paying a ridiculous price? DirecTV only offers the HR20s now and I'm not willing to give up the TiVo software or switch to cable.
- roadkillrampage, on 10/21/2007, -3/+3That article is so dated. www.tivocommunity.com and dealdatabase.com are some better resources.
- gweedo767, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Or you could just get a ViP622 DVR from Dish Network. Caller-id built in. 320GB HD. HD ready. Soon to support Dish OnDemand over your high speed internet connection.
The receiver blows any TiVo I have ever used out of the water. - dugeasy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok, i've got a question. I have the DirecTivo HR10-250 which i love but for one issue. I don't have local channels in HD. When the install guy from Directv came he told me that the $50 install of a local antenna on my roof would not give me reception. [he essentially was nice and saved me from spending $50]. I don't want to upgrade to the HR20 because the Directv User Interface is terrible and my wife is used to the Tivo UI. Is there another way to get these local channels in HD without giving up my tivo? fyi. We live in SF, CA and like agrahimi i won't switch to cable.
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http://hyipnews.freehostia.com/hyip - Schda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I agree, the only hack I need is TivoToGo and Video ReDo and my PC. I'm not affiliated with Video ReDo, but it makes editing so easy I could have my dad do it. I setup the Tivo to record all my favorite shows, have TivoToGo copy them all to my computer, edit out all the commercials with Video ReDo and save them as mpeg. Now I can do whatever I want with them, normally I just throw them back out into my Tivo share and now I'm free to watch them on my TV and show them to friends at my lesiure. With this method I've obtained the series runs of my favorite shows (Scrubs, The Office, My Name is Earl, Heroes, How I Met Your Mother) and am working on others (Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Dead Like Me, 4400 (Yeah I just got Sci-Fi about a month ago :) )
Easy and legal... a great combination, but I do have a series 2 Tivo so ymmv. - SoftTaco, on 10/21/2007, -2/+1Why not just use Myth TV
- MrWinna, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I agree with what wallbanger said, DVR is like personalized tv.
Not to mention, with DVR you dont have to have your mom tape that show you are going to miss on her 17 year old VCR. - haifastreet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1This is great. I didn't know there is so many extra things I can do with Tivo. The fact that I can watch TV without comercial messages is makes me want to watch more of it.
- PPoff, on 10/12/2007, -22/+2Antialias: It's a bit hypocritical to start telling me the benefits of DVR if you don't even watch TV don't you think.
All I'm saying is that for those of us that mostly watch sports, I just don't see how DVR is going to revolutionize my experience.
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