Comments on: TiVo Blogging http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/03/03/tivo_blogging/ Remember, I do this to entertain me... not you. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:33:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Les Jones http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/03/03/tivo_blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-56095 Les Jones Sat, 04 Mar 2006 04:51:02 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/03/03/tivo_blogging/#comment-56095 Dang, I didn't know the new TiVos could do that. I have a dino-TiVo I bought in 2000 that doesn't do any of those things. One day this unit will croak and I can buy a new one and Live in the Fantastic Future™. Dang, I didn’t know the new TiVos could do that. I have a dino-TiVo I bought in 2000 that doesn’t do any of those things. One day this unit will croak and I can buy a new one and Live in the Fantastic Future™.

]]> By: Phelps http://www.saysuncle.com/2006/03/03/tivo_blogging/comment-page-1/#comment-55993 Phelps Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:30:23 +0000 http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2006/03/03/tivo_blogging/#comment-55993 You need a TiVo in every room, but you don't need the same season passes on all of them. The Home Networking software lets you transfer programs between machines. I do it all the time. You can watch it as it is transfering, but it pretty much happens in real time, so you lose your FF and 30sec skip. I tend to do it like anything else -- start it, do something else for 5 or 10 minutes, and then watch it. I have one big capacity tivo (thanks Weaknees!) and a bunch of 40 hour jobs. The big one does most of the work, and the others pretty much take transfers. I have a couple of passes for things that conflict, but the master one in the living room does most of the recording. TiVo is also portable with TiVo To Go. You put the TiVo desktop program on your laptop, and you can transfer programs onto your laptop. They have some DRM on them, but the DRM will let you make DVDs and Video CDs of your programs if you don't want to watch them on the laptop. I don't know about the suggestions. Since TiVo defaults to live TV, I'm not sure how it knows you are watching. Even at that, you might want to drop what you are watching for the suggestion. Oh, and the Series 3 remotes have a textured edge on the back end so you can tell which way goes forward. So, half your suggestions are already in place if you just network them, and half the ones that aren't already in place are being addressed in the next version. You need a TiVo in every room, but you don’t need the same season passes on all of them. The Home Networking software lets you transfer programs between machines. I do it all the time. You can watch it as it is transfering, but it pretty much happens in real time, so you lose your FF and 30sec skip. I tend to do it like anything else — start it, do something else for 5 or 10 minutes, and then watch it. I have one big capacity tivo (thanks Weaknees!) and a bunch of 40 hour jobs. The big one does most of the work, and the others pretty much take transfers. I have a couple of passes for things that conflict, but the master one in the living room does most of the recording.

TiVo is also portable with TiVo To Go. You put the TiVo desktop program on your laptop, and you can transfer programs onto your laptop. They have some DRM on them, but the DRM will let you make DVDs and Video CDs of your programs if you don’t want to watch them on the laptop.

I don’t know about the suggestions. Since TiVo defaults to live TV, I’m not sure how it knows you are watching. Even at that, you might want to drop what you are watching for the suggestion.

Oh, and the Series 3 remotes have a textured edge on the back end so you can tell which way goes forward.

So, half your suggestions are already in place if you just network them, and half the ones that aren’t already in place are being addressed in the next version.

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