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Is there anything that will replace Tivo desktop for me? I want something that can pull the shows off of my tivo and automatically convert them to mpg for my ps3.
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kri kri posted:Is there anything that will replace Tivo desktop for me? I want something that can pull the shows off of my tivo and automatically convert them to mpg for my ps3. Did you ever try etivo? http://www.prish.com/etivo/ That's what it's supposed to do automatically. quote:AutoTivo mode
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Dec 27, 2008 02:07
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I just went out and bought a Series 3 HD; my first non-Comcast box.
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chemosh6969 posted:Did you ever try etivo? Yeah but that looks hella old school. Guess I will give it a try I just have an aversion to something that looks abandoned.
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Dec 27, 2008 04:57
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sex offendin Link posted:I just called Time Warner in NYC to set up a cableCARD, and they told me that they will only provide cards for a handful of specific Tivo models (not including mine). Now what? Go argue at the service center? Call back and lie about the model number to get the tech to show up? There are a total of three models that support CableCard and two of them are the same unit with different hard drive sizes. Where could they even manage to come up with a list? If it supports HDTV and isn't a DirecTV model, it will work.
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drchipotle posted:Does anyone here have experience upgrading the Series 2 harddrive themselves? I was going to try this, but wanted to know what i'm getting into. I did it on both of my tivos. It's pretty easy. I used winmfs (http://www.mfslive.org/winmfs/). I went from a 40gb (40 hour) drive to a 500gb drive. I used my laptop, so I had to buy two USB drive caddies in order to copy my old drive to the new one. There is also a linux version if you want to do it via command line, and the linux version handles drive errors better. One of drives was about to die (made tons of noise and windows wouldn't recognize it). Winmfs couldn't copy it, but I used the linux version and it copied perfectly.
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Jan 3, 2009 23:34
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wolrah posted:There are a total of three models that support CableCard and two of them are the same unit with different hard drive sizes. Where could they even manage to come up with a list? If it supports HDTV and isn't a DirecTV model, it will work. Yeah. They love to lie about this, because they hate being required to offer CableCARDs. But that's the law. So, they invent a bunch of bullshit reasons why it won't work. They're all---without exception---lies. They are always lying. If you are hearing your cable company talk about TiVo, you are hearing a lie.
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Jan 7, 2009 09:08
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One of my friends has a series 2 that is constantly lagging behind remote signals up to 10 seconds and then spontaneously rebooting when it gets too laggy. Any idea what would cause that?
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Jan 7, 2009 19:02
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qirex posted:One of my friends has a series 2 that is constantly lagging behind remote signals up to 10 seconds and then spontaneously rebooting when it gets too laggy. Any idea what would cause that? Hard drive is dying?
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Just got a series 3 HD TIVO, and I want to get the tivo desktop stuff working. The installer asks for something like a 'media access code' or something of the like. The problem is, the place on the tivo where it tells me it will be doesnt have anything of the sort, and the menu option on the website doesn't exist I refuse to believe they accidently forgot to include one of the star functionalities of tivo since they've been running such a big campaign here in australia about it, but I'll be hosed if i can work out what that number is supposed to be.
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Jan 11, 2009 04:05
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Should be "Account & System Information" - "Media Access Key". But your TiVo may be a bit different down under. Also, I Googled and found http://forums.oztivo.net/showthread.php?t=1854 which says "Media Access Keys have not been released in Australia yet." Granted, this is from the middle of last year, but that forum post also have some other tricks you can try.
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Jan 11, 2009 05:48
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I'm very interested in a Tivo, but I just can't bring myself to drop $300 on a DVR. Although I am tired of Comcast's terrible iGuide. Does using Tivo with a CC replace the stock guide from Comcast? It's really irritating that the Comcast guide is hideously ugly, not to mention it isn't even 16:9, even with the HD-DVR box. Would I return the Comcast box entirely, and then subscribe to the Tivo service? Also, what about PPV? Would I not be able to order any movies? bradzilla fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Jan 11, 2009 |
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Jan 11, 2009 06:37
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bradzilla posted:I'm very interested in a Tivo, but I just can't bring myself to drop $300 on a DVR. Although I am tired of Comcast's terrible iGuide. Does using Tivo with a CC replace the stock guide from Comcast? It's really irritating that the Comcast guide is hideously ugly, not to mention it isn't even 16:9, even with the HD-DVR box. Would I return the Comcast box entirely, and then subscribe to the Tivo service? Yeah you don't use a Comcast box at all, you use a CableCard in the Tivo. I finally got HD working on my box, the secret was to keep calling back until I got someone who knows what the gently caress they're doing. You should also probably ask for a M-Card otherwise they might give you two single tuner ones and that doubles the chance of failure. Whether it's worth the $300+ subscription is honestly debatable. I knew I was going to because I've been hooked to Tivo for 4 years. One thing I did this time was get lifetime service since I ended up having to give away my old series 2 for free while ones with lifetime were selling for over $100. edit: no on demand, no PPV but between what the Tivo records for me and Netflix I don't miss it
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qirex posted:edit: no on demand, no PPV but between what the Tivo records for me and Netflix I don't miss it Does this mean no PPV at all, or would I still be able to call Comcast and manually place an order for a PPV?
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Jan 11, 2009 06:56
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bradzilla posted:Does this mean no PPV at all, or would I still be able to call Comcast and manually place an order for a PPV? No PPV at all. A CableCARD device like a tivo can't receive them.
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Jan 11, 2009 07:32
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Ugh. Looks like I got scammed. http://apcmag.com/tivo_hd.htm Yeah. Looks like they've have ripped out the tivo desktop functionality on channel 7s behest before releasing it here, but uh... still advertise it on the advertisements. I'll call them on monday and if they tell me I cant have those features, I'll be filing a complaint with the Australian Consumer Competition Commission. The ACCC are horrible monsters with bad habits of hitting companies with fines in the tens of millions range.
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Jan 11, 2009 08:22
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I set this up today, its great. http://lifehacker.com/5048824/decrypt-and-remove-commercials-from-tivo-recordings-in-one-step I set it up so my tivo upstairs records my poo poo, and then kmttg does everything for me including encoding the file with a PS3 profile.
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Jan 18, 2009 19:30
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kri kri posted:I set this up today, its great. I'd love to set something up like that, but the only show I'd do it with (my wife has about four years worth of ER to watch  ) does a LOT of false positives with commercial skipping. Hopefully it doesn't screw yours up. 
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Deathlove posted:I'd love to set something up like that, but the only show I'd do it with (my wife has about four years worth of ER to watch Yeha I am testing it out. I really wish I could figure out how to auto-do everything but I should be able to work it out.
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qirex posted:Yeah you don't use a Comcast box at all, you use a CableCard in the Tivo. I finally got HD working on my box, the secret was to keep calling back until I got someone who knows what the gently caress they're doing. You should also probably ask for a M-Card otherwise they might give you two single tuner ones and that doubles the chance of failure. I just got two sexy, sexy new M cards from Comcast where I DIDN'T HAVE TO CALL ANYONE, AND THEY WORKED. Sometime later in the day after I picked them up, someone called me and did take like the card serial number and the box host ID because apparently they still need that if you have HBO/Showtime/et al, but it was awesome to be able to watch all my other channels immediately upon plugging in. I didn't have to call anyone, which was great compared to the last time I had to do it after they had shut down their cablecard only line and no one on regular tech support knew what the gently caress about cablecard.
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Dogen posted:I just got two sexy, sexy new M cards from Comcast where I DIDN'T HAVE TO CALL ANYONE, AND THEY WORKED. Sometime later in the day after I picked them up, someone called me and did take like the card serial number and the box host ID because apparently they still need that if you have HBO/Showtime/et al, but it was awesome to be able to watch all my other channels immediately upon plugging in. I'm quite jealous. My local po-dunk cable provider charges a mandatory $125/card install fee, plus $6.99/mo/card. And no, they don't have M cards.  It's ridiculous to the point that I'm considering filing an FCC complaint.
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SpacedOut posted:I'm quite jealous. My local po-dunk cable provider charges a mandatory $125/card install fee, plus $6.99/mo/card. And no, they don't have M cards. Tivo takes this pretty seriously, you can call them about it as well. They'll call the cable co or the FCC or whoever they feel they need to call. Here in Houston, you pick up the card and do a self install, and the first card is free. I think every card after that is $1.30 or something.
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Jan 24, 2009 23:43
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Is there any kind of self-diagnostics I can do on my Multi CableCard? It's been acting up the last few days (sometimes not wanting to record channels, and weirdly, when I go to its channel list, it only shows 550-553 - porn channels that I don't get), and now my cable is entirely out. Sigh.
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I have a question that might be better answered in the tivo forums but I'll ask here anyways. I have a standard Tivo HD DVR that I bought used from a goon here. It works perfectly except for one small and annoying problem, it randomly reboots itself multiple times per day. I'll just be watching tv and boom, locks up and reboots itself. It doesn't seem to matter if I'm watching a recorded show, watching regular tv with no recording going on, or watching tv while the other tuner records another channel. It will happen multiple times per day, or some days I can go a whole day without it rebooting. From the limited research I've done so far it seems this could be a hard drive failing, if that's the case I'll replace but I just wanted some opinions if anyone else has dealt with this before.
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I'd say hard drive. I'd also replace it as soon as possible before the hard drive is so messed up you'd be unable to make a new one off of it.
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chemosh6969 posted:I'd say hard drive. I'd also replace it as soon as possible before the hard drive is so messed up you'd be unable to make a new one off of it. Well I replaced it with a nice 500 gig drive last night and so far no issues! Took about 45 minutes to do the whole thing since I copied the few shows I had recorded on there over to the new hd but other than that it was a piece of cake!
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mattfl posted:Well I replaced it with a nice 500 gig drive last night and so far no issues! Took about 45 minutes to do the whole thing since I copied the few shows I had recorded on there over to the new hd but other than that it was a piece of cake! Which guide did you use? I've been planning on doing mine for awhile.
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Jan 29, 2009 17:34
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chemosh6969 posted:Which guide did you use? I've been planning on doing mine for awhile. Started with this http://mfslive.org/winmfs/ and then jumped to the quick start http://www.mfslive.org/winmfs/quickstart.htm
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Anyone know of an alternative to kmttg for doing comskip? I tried kmttg and it always produces an unfinished file.
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Dogen posted:Tivo takes this pretty seriously, you can call them about it as well. They'll call the cable co or the FCC or whoever they feel they need to call. Here in Houston, you pick up the card and do a self install, and the first card is free. I think every card after that is $1.30 or something. Local cable co's often treat CC owners as red-headed stepchildren, but dang if it's not worth putting up with their attitude just to get rid of their generic DVRs. Once you go Tivo, it's hard to go back.
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I checked the thread for anyone else lucky enough to have a cable office that rocks the house and didn't see anything. I picked up my  Tuning Adapter Saturday. That's right, I'm watching some sweet HD SDV channels on my Tivo HD.Time Warner has a sign up for adapters on their website, http://www.timewarnercable.com/tuningadapter. Check it out, I got a letter in the mail that told me I could go pick mine up. They are free with your CableCARD rental fee and you must sign up to get one for the time being. It is not a tiny little black box, it is a Cisco box about an inch high and a foot wide. It absolutely did not work at first, steps I followed: 1. Power off Tivo 2. Plug everything in like the booklet says 3. Power tuning adapter on 4. Power Tivo on 5. Light on adapter was flashing (this is not good it says in the book) 6. Power adapter off and back on until light is solid green 7. Restart Tivo as it will not work at all until you do 8. Regular channels worked but SDV channels did not. I planned to call about it Monday since the wait time for phone support on the weekend is terrible. Sunday night it just started working. I literally was one of their first customers to get one, the lady at the office had no information that wasn't in the instructions. Your regular channels will still work even if the SDV channels do not. I would advise leaving it connected a full day before bothering to call about it.
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You are a lucky bastard. If I wasn't moving soon I would be all over Cablevision, begging for an SDV adapter.
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900ftjesus posted:I checked the thread for anyone else lucky enough to have a cable office that rocks the house and didn't see anything. I picked up my I know they have them up in Austin and presumably San Antonio since I think it's the same franchise. Here in Houston Comcast doesn't do SDV, though now that there is a tuning adapter I almost wish they did because I don't understand why the gently caress we don't have Discovery HD.
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Dogen posted:I know they have them up in Austin and presumably San Antonio since I think it's the same franchise. Here in Houston Comcast doesn't do SDV, though now that there is a tuning adapter I almost wish they did because I don't understand why the gently caress we don't have Discovery HD. Originally we got Discovery HD Theater in one of the 10 non-SDV HD stations instead of Discovery HD in my area. When they finally added it, it was SDV. I guess my only suggestion is to email them and ask, it can only help to have people actively show interest.
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Hey, can I get cablecards for the TiVo HD from Verizon FIOS?
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Aatrek posted:Hey, can I get cablecards for the TiVo HD from Verizon FIOS? Most likely not. Fios uses what, Video over IP? I really doubt that they've bothered to figure out a way to make cablecards compatible, since they're not required to.
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Aatrek posted:Hey, can I get cablecards for the TiVo HD from Verizon FIOS? From what I've read on the Tivo Community forums, they have them available.
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Coincidentally, I am moving in a few days and I just ordered FiOS at my new place. I have two single stream CableCards on the way for my TivoHD; multi-stream cards are not available yet. I live and will be living in Central NJ.
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A few questions - I have Comcast's TiVo offering. It's an improvement from their old DVR, but I'm wondering what advantages I'd see if I got a genuine TiVo box. Obviously I'd have internet recording (a huge plus), Youtube / Netflix etc, but I'm also wondering if the "real" TiVo works any better. With the current one I have issues sometimes with my TiVo stalling, and doing things like scheduling a season pass take about 20-30 seconds. - Anyone know how much Comcast charges to install cable cards? I'd hate to order a TiVo for $200 and then have to pay Comcast $100 to install cable cards. - Is there any way to find out for sure if I'd miss any channels?
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I think cable companies are required to provide cable cards for no extra charge, I could be wrong though.
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