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Does Tivo pick up the antenna channels?
Yes, I just have the antenna plugged into the Tivo and HDMI out to the TV. (Mine is a Series 3 HD, one or two generations older than the Premiere, and has two coax jacks in the back. One says "antenna" and the other says "cable.")
This is all reminding me that I need to mail my cablecard back to Cablevision this week.
I don't ever watch sports, but I'm guessing people who do mostly watch them live? So a Tivo's primary function (time-shifting) wouldn't be as useful? OTOH, good for DIY instant replays and bathroom breaks.
I discovered today that my TV has a third HDMI port I'd forgotten about! So if I find a good deal on a Mac Mini I can use that instead of the DVI input that my laptop's using now.
OTOH, good for DIY instant replays and bathroom breaks.
Critical for that. But yeah, the timeshifting not really a factor.
and use the feature that allows me to share Tivo'd shows between Tivos (through wi-fi).
We have this with our Tivos and thanks to idiot broadcasters it is mostly useless. Basically each network can control a flag on whether or not each show can be transferred between digital devices and they have a tendency to mark far too much stuff as not eligible for transfer. Also, on shows that are captured in HD you won't be able to transfer them to the older Tivo.
Oh, that's aggravating. I debated about getting that set up when I switched DVRs recently, but honestly I really don't watch hardly any tv in the bedroom. It would definitely not be worth it if that's the case.
Good to know, ND! Thanks!
Basically each network can control a flag on whether or not each show can be transferred between digital devices and they have a tendency to mark far too much stuff as not eligible for transfer.
Yeah, the licensing deals that control this sort of thing are a nightmare. (I'm obviously most familiar with BBCA, but the channel has unbelievably strict limits on what it's allowed to do with the content it buys, and since licensing shows for digital download vs licensing for broadcast are different competing departments, they pretty much have to flag everything as Do Not Transfer if they want to be allowed to air it at all.)
The whole system needs rebuilding from the ground up - IP rights to digital video are an unbelievable clusterfuck. Everyone is still operating as though the rules that were written 20 years ago for VOD can apply to things like Slingbox and iPhones, and it's just not the case.
I watch sports, and I timeshift it like a fiend. But maybe everyone's home for the more conventional sports. I'm certainly not for mine.
As long as we're talking home networks, has anyone used something like this to put hard drives on your home network?
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The reviews on that specific adapter aren't great, but I'd love to be able to access my media w/o having to physically plug the drive in. (I have my iTunes and iPhoto libraries on an external drive so my laptop doesn't run out of space.)
I have an iCal problem and I would love help figuring it out. I can't even figure out what terms to use to search for solutions.
I live in Mountain Time. I have that selected in iCal. My calendar is shared ("published") and synced via .mac. But when I schedule something for, say, 9am, it ends up getting shared as 12pm or something stupid. My iPhone obviously knows I am in Mountain Time, so I don't get what is going on.
Do you have Time Zone Enabled everywhere - phone, computer, Mobile Me website? You might have to set the Mail, Contacts, Calendars settings on your phone separately from the General time zone setting.
