I am going to purchase Tivo tomorrow or Saturday. Is there a particular unit or feature should I keep in mind? And I have heard of issues with Time Warner Cable and using Tivo. Is that for every Tivo DVR or just the HD one? Thanks!
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Thump;970675; said:
Everything I have read regarding Time Warner's DVR is that it just is not that good of a product....
Anybody have any experience with these???
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Wingate1217;970717; said:
I have the HD DVR through Time Warner and my only complaint would be it doesn't tell you how much space you have used, how much space you have remaining, etc. Otherwise I like it a lot.
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BuckNutty;970757; said:
Cheaper to get it through a cable company than buying it on your own.
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Thump;970763; said:
I agree, however I need to have it operational by this weekend. I am going to "tape" my son's game that starts at 6:30 pm and I would like to also to copy OSU-PSU at 8pm. I know some Tivo boxes have this capability but not sure about the cable company's box. At any rate the cable company will not be able to get me a box till after this Saturday.
Would I be better off buying a DVR than Tivo? Do the DVR's in the market have the ability to record two programs at once like Tivo?
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If you can afford it, I recommend buying your own, and adding a bigger HD. Most DVRs only have 20-30 hours of HD storage, which fills up very quickly if you record sports games, or a lot of TV series. If you add a 300 gb hard drive (which you can find for around 100), I think that bumps it up to 60 hours (or so). There are plenty of tutorials for how to replace or add another HD to a tivo box.
I'm not positive, but I think you can get the HD DVR cheaper from Time Warner than dtv. If not, you might be able to cancel your service and sign up again, at which point you'd probably get better pricing anyway.
I'm not positive, but I think you can get the HD DVR cheaper from Time Warner than dtv. If not, you might be able to cancel your service and sign up again, at which point you'd probably get better pricing anyway.
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Wingate1217;970798; said:
Buy the TIVO, use it for this weekend, then buy one from your cable company and take the TIVO back if possible.
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exhawg
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Thump;970828; said:
I think TIVO makes you pay for a one year agreement before you can get the TIVO service now. I don't know if there's an out after you start using it. I still have an older TIVO and talked them down to $6 a month rather than $12. It's kind of shady that they want to you spent a bunch on the box and a monthly service fee when you can get a DVR for around $5 a month without having to buy anything. The TIVO service does blow away any generic DVR that I've seen. I'll probably keep mine until it won't work anymore, but I wouldn't buy another.
If anyone else uses TIVO rather than DVR and aren't currently in a contact I recommend that you call to renegotiate. Let me know if you do better than $6 a month.
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Brewtus;970994; said:
What kind of glitches?
I've had none.
BTW, how to make the DVR tape for an extra two or three minutes before and after a show as to not have any of the show cut off?
I've looked in the "HELP" section on the screen but can't figure it out.
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Brewtus
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Occasionally a show won't record or stops recording well before it should. But that's only happened very rarely and I record a lot of shows between the 3 units.Thump;971024; said:
If you go into the detailed options of the recording you can start or stop a program a set number of minutes late or early. I think you might have to press record first then go back into that program and reset the details. On recurring programs you just need to set in once and it will be the same every time the show records.
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