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[clintswan]

hmmmmmm

should I get TIVO?

dicuss

Comments

[mathan.livejournal.com]

Why waste your money? Use your VCR.

[verucabear.livejournal.com]

Aaarggh..it's not a waste of money!!! TIVO is soooooo much better than a VCR...:)

[woofytexan.livejournal.com]

Get a Replay instead.
You can watch something else with Replay while recording. Can't do that with Tivo.

[verucabear.livejournal.com]

You should most definitely get a TIVO...but wait a few weeks until the new Series 2 TIVO's come out at BestBuy. They are supposed to be pretty damn cool, and affordable too!

[brinah.livejournal.com]

All that TV will rot your brain.

Spoken from a guy who would REALLY like to get TIVO himeslf

So Take that with a grain of salt. :-)

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

Can you tape from TIVO to video tape easily? Like from VCR to VCR?

[verucabear.livejournal.com]

I believe the answer is yes....they are designed to be able to dump the recorded shows to video tape...but I haven't done it yet..*G*

[hylandr.livejournal.com]

I like saving some shows without commercials. That's why I was asking. (Not that I have the money right now for a TIVO though...)

[clintswan.livejournal.com]

series 2 can

[clintswan.livejournal.com]

I saw it on their web page!

[clintswan.livejournal.com]

I'm just tired of watching crap

[clintswan.livejournal.com]

the whole "remembering to tape shows" thing is really buring my ass

DirecTiVo

[alphaschnitz.livejournal.com]

I say HELL YES! I love my TiVo.

Also, I highly recommend the DirecTiVo boxes over the standard TiVo boxes if you're considering dumping cable in favor of DirecTV. They enable you to get around the recording limitation of the standalone TiVo boxes (though that can also be done with a splitter and a well-placed A/B switch on the input of your Cable-Ready TV).

My DirecTiVo (combined DirecTV and TiVo in a single box) can record 1 program while I watch another Live, OR I can record *2* programs simultaneously while watching a 3rd pre-recorded program. Also, DirecTV broadcasts its data using MPEG compression, which is the format that TiVos record in. So, the DirecTiVos record the MPEG signal direct from the satellite, whereas a standalone TiVo connected to a cable box goes through an extra Cable-Box-Decode/TiVo-ReEncode step.

[brinah.livejournal.com]

Me Too!

I'm tired of missing E.R., remembering "Judging Amy" is on when it's 10:45, Never getting to watch "Providence", and a host of other things I'd like to tape but often miss or forget I want to see sometehing.

It's the Soap's that really rot the brain...so glad I gave up General Hospital years ago. It was cold turkey and I sweated for weeks but now it's all behind me. :-)

[sibs.livejournal.com]

I agree...the VCR works fine....well until youve used the tape 20 times or so

[greggmmc.livejournal.com]

ok ... I am so stupid, unsophisticated, whatever ...

what exactly is TIVO? I mean I understand the fact that you can record shows, but there are no tapes, right? Is it just a box or is it a monthly service too?

I need something ... for OZ ..... yummy

[duncan02.livejournal.com]

Unless you can afford to get a butler to dutifully record, label, and categorize all of your favorite shows, I'd go with the Tivo. Plus, it's tiring to search through a videotape to find that one show, assuming you picked up the right videotape out of your pile of 20 unlabeled ones (if you're like me).