Originally Posted By disneymum TiVo is coming to Canada where I live with DH and 5 of our 7 DC. What are the pros and cons of TiVo? Does it work well and are you happy you use it?
Originally Posted By DJ7K I have a question of my own, just out of curiosity. Does one need to have DirecTV for it or can you use it separately? But as long as I'm here, I should contribute. My friend's Dad has one, just got it less than a year ago. I often hear him bring up minor issues with it not doing this or that properly. He loves to record the NASCAR races whenever they're on, usually when he's at church with us. And he keeps talking about little issues he keeps having with it and would always be asking his wife or friends from church why it's not performing responding to this command or that command. But whatever it is it's probably just little things that are easily fixable.
Originally Posted By jonvn Tivo is like a dvr on your cable box or satellite dish, only with an incredibly good user interface. The thing with tivo is that you have to pay a monthly fee of about $6 or so. They have a lifetime membership available right now if yo uwant to get it, I believe. That costs a bit extra. If your cable box or sat box already has a dvr, you may think that the tivo is redundant. However, Tivo has a ton of great features. I never have any problems with the thing at all. You don't need direct tv to use it. You can use it with dish, cable, or just off the air. It has to be connected to your signal source to work. It also needs either a broadband connection or a phone connection so it can download the upcoming tv listings (what you pay the monthly fee for). It can work, but barely, without the fee. But it's a waste to get it without that. Series 3 Tivos work with HD. And allow you to watch one channel while recording another. About it.
Originally Posted By danyoung Having the ability to watch what you want when you want will totally change your life. And I mean that without hyperbole. I'm no longer limited to watching whatever's on at any given moment. I usually have anywhere from 10 to 20 hours saved up on my drive, and can pick what I feel like watching. That plus the ability to pause a show whenever the need strikes, and the ability to skip through commercials, and it's just a no brainer. GET THE TIVO!!!
Originally Posted By christiemarsh88 About two years ago, I saw a commercial for a Tivo and thought it was a pretty useless idea. Then we got one, and I will never be without one again, given any kind of choice.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad I Love my DVR! It's sort of the same. I have hours of the kids favorite shows and I never miss Grey's Anatomy because I have the DVR set to only record NEW episodes. Set it once, and no matter what day or time, it will record, even if the network changes the show times it is sooo cool. Now that's recording using a title. I also have it set to record any program on any of my 5,000 channels related to UFO's. Hey I like that stuff. I love mine, you should get it.
Originally Posted By disneymum Ok, I am weakening. Maybe Santa will bring me one for Christmas?? Anybody else love this thing?
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs I hear VCRs are pretty cheap nowadays... now you can get one for every member of the family!
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs I do have TiVo and enjoy it immensely. I actually don't have it on Live TV, but I primarily use it for recording.
Originally Posted By danyoung >I hear VCRs are pretty cheap nowadays...< I still use a couple of vcr's, but it's really not the same. For instance, last night I used mine to watch the Cowboys/Packers game. I let it record for 30 minutes or so, so that I could then skip through the commercials quickly. Also I could replay any play that I wanted to see again. I stopped watching about halftime and went to bed, then watched the rest of the game this morning. With a vcr you would pretty much have to record the whole game before watching it. A Tivo (or a Replay, the brand I have) lets you watch a show before it's done recording, which is very valuable.
Originally Posted By jonvn You can also just tell the tivo "Hey, record the packers game" (well, basically), and it figures it out for you, automatically. You don't have to deal with anything, it just does it.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs LOL...I know...I have mine set up for South Park and Family Guy. We also have Barry Bonds' 656 homerun game.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle Although we don't have Tivo here as such, we have the same basic system (called iQ) and I don't think I can live without it now that I have it! We were always getting calls right in the middle of a show, so it's great just to be able to pause it and catch up. Since I could never be bothered recording a show either, I'm getting to see a lot of TV I'd otherwise be missing. Not good for my social life perhaps, but I love it!
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Then you must have a looooooooooooot of catching up to do. How was your holiday?
Originally Posted By hammertime I LOVE Tivo. My husband love it so much we have two! We have one for our livingroom and one for our bedroom. Out two tivo's talk to each other so we can watch something from the bedroom tivo on the livingroom Tivo. We were one of the first people to buy one. Back then it only had 8 hours of recording time. Now they have like 40 or 80 hours. We love that we can watch our favorite program when we want. We no longer have to rush home to watch our favorite show. Couple of Cons to having tivo. When you tell it to record a program and the network decides to start 2 minutes early or ends 2 minutes late. It doesn't record that 2 minutes. other than that we haven't had any problems.
Originally Posted By danyoung >When you tell it to record a program and the network decides to start 2 minutes early or ends 2 minutes late. It doesn't record that 2 minutes.< I really really hate this! I know some of the programming information comes in now with the correct times. But if it's a show that I absolutely must have, I set it to start 2 minutes early and 5 minutes late, just to be sure. And then with something like a football game that usually runs long, I just add 60 minutes to the end time, which works pretty well.
