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Warning about some spam/malware...
I opened my email this morning and in the Spam box was an email postcard. I use gmail so when I opened it, I put my cursor over the links without clicking them and saw that the links went to .exe files.
Just fyi about postcard greetings that aren't what they seem.
Dumb Tivo question. Do they work with cable boxes to get premium channels and whatnot?
Do they work with cable boxes to get premium channels and whatnot?
Yes. They actually control the cable box, changing channels as they need to. So they can record whatever you can get.
But they can still do that magical watch one thing and record another thing?
I am minutes away from buying one, I think. Push me over the edge.
Tivo lets you watch something previously recorded while it records something else live. You can't watch/record Lost/Vm for example because the Tivo only has one tuner.
eta: Still, Tivo rawks! I love mine so much. It was a gift but otherwise, I would say money very well spent. It really will change the way you watch TV.
Shoot, that wasn't the answer I was looking for. But I think I will still get it, I just won't quite retire the VCRs yet.
Thanks!
-t, do you have analog or digital cable?
If you have analog, you might be able to use the tuner of a VCR or the one in your TV to view a non-premium program, while the tuner of your cable box feeds the TiVo.
I have digital cable, but I think they still send an analog signal over the same cable, so I can use the VCR tuner trick.
Yeah, I have digital. I'm assuming that I can run a cable to a VCR (or two) before the cable box and get at least some channels that way.
I'm assuming that I can run a cable to a VCR (or two) before the cable box and get at least some channels that way.
If there's an analog signal in addition to a digital signal. I don't think VCRs or much else can handle the digital signal directly.
Shoot, that wasn't the answer I was looking for. But I think I will still get it, I just won't quite retire the VCRs yet.
-t-, I'm not sure what exactly you're looking to do, but you can think of a TIVO as a VCR. IOW, whatever TV watching options you get with a VCR while it's recording a show, you'll get with the TIVO. Plus a whole lot more.
And weren't there some TIVOs out that had two tv tuners built-in, or did that never happen?