Nothing like a little How To action to brighten up your weekend. PVRWire has a few tips to help you get the most out of your TiVo. One way for me to get more out of your TiVo experience is if I could stop typing the captial V in the middle of the name. He even has a few suggestions […]
Read morePVRWire does a little article on who they think will be buying TiVo. Personally, I don't see it happening until TiVo can make a big deal with cable companies to use TiVo's instead of their knockoff boxes that they charge people $10/month for, without any hardware fees. Knowing that the internet is going to take over the living room the […]
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EngadgetHD (formerly HDBeat) has a cool article about how to change out your TiVo Series 3 CableCARD enabled DVR with a larger hard drive. The Series 3 shockinly only comes with a 250GB drive, which as many of us know, HDTV will fill pretty quickly. As much as we love the TiVo Series3, for $800 we would like a bigger […]
Read moreI'm not sure how this works exactly, but looked interesting enough to post: With an advanced HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) output, HD-A970GX offers a hassle-free connection to the new-generation HDTV or HD-ready TV set with a single HDMI cable. Meanwhile, to bridge the current gap between the lower-resolution analog signals and the expanded display capability of HDTV, the HD-A970GX incorporates […]
Read moreYou know, I was gonna knock this when I first heard about it, but think of how innovative Time Warner is being here. Sure it's awful they won't allow fast forwarding, but I can't count how many times people with little knowledge of PVR's have CRAVED being able to view a show from the beginning that they remembered to record […]
Read moreEngadget pointed out this clever mod from a member of the TIVO community. Seems he just didn't have enough storage…so he did the reasonable thing: Upgrade to 1 friggin terabyte! …expanding the capacity of his Series3 TiVo from the standard 250GB to a whole terabyte, which takes the S3's total recording capacity up to a possible 131 hours of HD […]
Read moreMore then one or two owners have been denied CableCards for their series 3 TiVos. Zatz talks about their frustration in dealing with Cable companies and also posts a letter that TiVo sent to the FCC. It seems to be a mixed bag of results when trying to get a CableCard for a 3rd party device, I guess it depends […]
Read moreC|Net is hot on the trail of DirectTV's new MPEG-4 AVC HD DVR. It receives failry high marks for its ability to record two shows at once, a quality interface, easy to use EPG and a RF capable remote. The bad is that it has no commercial skip and the ATSC tuner is disabled. Looking through the review, it appears […]
Read moreSure the TiVo does a lot, but I am betting it's not going to cut it when trying to record Freeview broadcasts in the UK. The PVR-160 from Evesham Tech, not to be confused with the PVR-150 from Hauppauge, is a $300 160GB dual tuner PVR that includes all of your standard PVR features. The foible that caught my eye […]
Read moreIf you are the lucky owner of a Comcast Motorola DCT3412 box, there is a hack available online to program your remote for a 30 second skip for commercials. Its a pretty simple hack that will have you in commercial skip heaven in no time. From the article: Via PVRWire Choose an unused or unneeded button on the “silver” remote […]
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