But do TiVos have digital cable tuners in them?
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
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tommyrot - Dec 22, 2005 1:25:01 pm PST #6138 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
§ ita § - Dec 22, 2005 1:26:04 pm PST #6139 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No.
Jessica - Dec 22, 2005 1:44:58 pm PST #6140 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Early 2006, they said! There was a press release!
I tried to split my cable once to do the watch/record thing, but it didn't end up working very well. One split got all the channels I wanted, and the other one got CBS and three or four Spanish channels and nothing else.
I think if I get an HD set before there's an HDTivo, I may switch over to Time Warner's HD-DVR. But I'll be bitter about it.
[eta: The DirectTivos have 2 tuners, but I'm not sure they make them anymore. I vaguely remember that partnership falling through sometime this past year.]
§ ita § - Dec 22, 2005 1:51:27 pm PST #6141 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't have the link to my setup right now, but I can get all my analog channels through the VCR and directly into the TV, with the TiVo bogarting evrything over 99. Works great.
Deena - Dec 22, 2005 2:27:51 pm PST #6142 of 10003
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I have DVR through the cable company. No set top box, and we can record two and watch one of the ones recording all at the same time.
-t - Dec 22, 2005 2:31:21 pm PST #6143 of 10003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm assuming that Comcast delivers an analog signal as "backup" to the digital, because that's what Cox did. Though Cox offered a DVR, and Comcast doesn't, at least not in my area.
I tried to get DirectTV and their special Tivo deal (mainly for the NFL Sunday Ticket), but there's apparently nowhere to mount a dish that would work. Alas. I'll have to get my Saints games some other way.
In any case, I'm going to pick up a Tivo box tonight and may very well be back for setup help...I'm already splitting my cable to go to the cable box and my modem. Sigh.
Liese S. - Dec 22, 2005 5:39:38 pm PST #6144 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I have Directv & its TiVo which uses two tuners. So I can watch something previously recorded and record two simultaneous shows. Furthermore, I live in nowhereland, so I also get both LA & NY locals, meaning I could conceivably record four shows that air simultaneously.
Neener.
I only neener, because I'm envious of all the other nifty features that real TiVos, TiVos unabandoned by their makers, have and continue to offer. Including utilizing the deactivated USB port just sitting there at the back of my unit, taunting me. Blargh.
So I neener when I can.
DCJensen - Dec 22, 2005 6:05:19 pm PST #6145 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
I could conceivably record four shows that air simultaneously.
And change the gravitational constant of the universe...
Cass - Dec 22, 2005 9:02:08 pm PST #6146 of 10003
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Y'all are going to make me spend the day reading up on the portable document format.Me too. I realize that I can bend them to my will but I don't know exactly how they work. Must remedy.
HiddenSky - Dec 23, 2005 8:35:00 am PST #6147 of 10003
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
I split my cable so one fork goes to the TiVo (analog channels only), which I have plugged into one of my video inputs on my TV, and the other goes to the digital cable box. I don't have it the other way around where the TiVo controls the cable box via IR to get the extra channels since I mainly watch the NHL Center Ice package on digital and with the exception of a few channels like BBC America, 99% of the shows I'd want to record can be found on analog.
BTW, -t, if you get the TiVo and no one has already claimed the referral, I'd be very interested in earning the referral points when you set it up. (Pretty please?) I need one more referral to have enough points for an iPod Shuffle. My rewards email is temporarily tacked onto the description in my profile just in case.