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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.
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.
I could conceivably record four shows that air simultaneously.
And change the gravitational constant of the universe...
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.
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.
does anyone out there know what/how I can burn downloaded iTunes videos to a DVD?
I'm not sure you'd want to -- the image quality would be almost unwatchable on a TV screen.
What's the quality like if you hook the iPod itself up to a TV?
Jessica, I had heard that, but it looks really good on our huge TV. We've been playing it on the Powerbook and hooking that up via S-video. It works okay, but it's a lot of cables.
No iPod video here so we haven't tried ita's suggestion.
I don't have a video iPod, but the size of the clips is just barely a quarter of broadcast resolution.
[eta: Huh. That must be one hell of a codec they're using, then.]
