TiVo

[Guest MrRant]

If you do what are your thoughts on it? I got mine about a week ago and it is nice to wake up and it have recorded stuff like movies/tv shows based on what you have recorded/watched . This morning I woke up to have the The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother automatically recorded. That and I can record the Critic and Married W/Children that come on at 3am and 4 am respectivily and watch them in the morning. I can also pause RAW and stuff if I have to take care of the baby in the middle of it. I love my Tivo.

[Guest EQ]

I don't have a Tivo personally, but my friends do. It's pretty damn sweet. A few months ago, we were watching a PPV over there, and Brock had a match. I forget who he was fighting, but he slaughtered someone. We marked out for it... So we watched the match 2 more times, and then fast forwarded some stupid boring match and went back to watching the PPV live

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

I found this article hillarious:

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/795942/posts

 

Many consumers appreciate having computers delve into their hearts and heads. But some say it gives them the willies, because the machines either know them too well or make cocksure assumptions about them that are way off base. That's why even TiVo lovers are tempted to hoodwink it -- a phenomenon that was also spoofed this year on another TV show, HBO's "The Mind of the Married Man."

Viewers help TiVo understand their tastes by giving TV shows thumbs up or down.

 

 

 

 

Mike Binder, creator and star of that show, had set his home TiVo to record his 1999 movie, "The Sex Monster," about a man whose wife becomes bisexual. After that, Mr. Binder's TiVo assumed he would enjoy a steady stream of gay programming. Unnerved, he counteracted the onslaught by recording the Playboy Channel and MTV's spring break bikini coverage. It worked, he says. "My TiVo doesn't look at me funny anymore."

 

His wife, however, was taken aback when she saw all the half-naked women he was ordering through TiVo. He told her those women meant nothing to him: "I'm just counterprogramming because TiVo thinks I'm gay." She was unamused. The incident inspired an episode of his show

[Guest MrRant]

Its true. I watched the Golden Girls with my fiancee last night and came home today to find it have recorded 3 episodes of it.

[Guest NoCalMike]

Tivo is a good idea for someone that loves TV, but is always on the run. Personally, everything I want to watch, I usually get to see it with the aid of a regular VCR. I suppose one day when I have kids/wife and more interruptions throughout my viewing time, a TiVo would come in handy, but for right now, I have no problem watching everything I want to.

[Guest MrRant]

That is true in a way. The other benefit is that it will record things that you like automatically. Example: Last night I watched Blazing Saddles and then I woke up this morning and it had recorded See No Evil, Hear No Evil and the reason was that they were both Comedies and both had Gene Wilder.

[Guest Heel In Peril]

Tivo throws its dick into VCRs' asses regularly. That = Tivo rocks. It's only con is that it's a notch expensive. But if you have the bread, tax yourself a box.

[Guest MrRant]

You can get a 40 hour one from Tivo.com and I believe Amazon.com for $249 - $50 mail in rebate so that = $199

[The Dames 0]

.....Does it work with an illegal cable hook up?

 

Dames

[Guest MrRant]

Yes

[Guest EQ]

I found this article hillarious:

 

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/795942/posts

 

Many consumers appreciate having computers delve into their hearts and heads. But some say it gives them the willies, because the machines either know them too well or make cocksure assumptions about them that are way off base. That's why even TiVo lovers are tempted to hoodwink it -- a phenomenon that was also spoofed this year on another TV show, HBO's "The Mind of the Married Man."

Viewers help TiVo understand their tastes by giving TV shows thumbs up or down.

 

 

 

 

Mike Binder, creator and star of that show, had set his home TiVo to record his 1999 movie, "The Sex Monster," about a man whose wife becomes bisexual. After that, Mr. Binder's TiVo assumed he would enjoy a steady stream of gay programming. Unnerved, he counteracted the onslaught by recording the Playboy Channel and MTV's spring break bikini coverage. It worked, he says. "My TiVo doesn't look at me funny anymore."

 

His wife, however, was taken aback when she saw all the half-naked women he was ordering through TiVo. He told her those women meant nothing to him: "I'm just counterprogramming because TiVo thinks I'm gay." She was unamused. The incident inspired an episode of his show

I actually saw this episode... it was pretty funny.

[Guest Mole]

So, you are saying that TiVo will record programs automatically that you have seen in the past?

 

I'd like to get it, but not any time soon. I heard hooking it up is a pain in the ass. I'd rather wait for DVD-Rs to come out, well, cheaper ones.

[Guest El Satanico]

But why. Even when Home DVD Recorders and DVDR discs drop in price to consumeer level tivo would still be cheaper to use in the long run. The intial price would even out, but Tivo would gain the upperhand when you factor in the cost of discs to being able to record for free with tivo. At some point DVDR discs will be as cheap as CDR discs so won't matter much then, but that's a few years away.

 

Of course i'm only referring to recording stuff that you would erase after viewing it. You wouldn't want to use Tivo if you're recording something you plan on keeping.

[Guest MrRant]

But why. Even when Home DVD Recorders and DVDR discs drop in price to consumeer level tivo would still be cheaper to use in the long run. The intial price would even out, but Tivo would gain the upperhand when you factor in the cost of discs to being able to record for free with tivo. At some point DVDR discs will be as cheap as CDR discs so won't matter much then, but that's a few years away.

 

Of course i'm only referring to recording stuff that you would erase after viewing it. You wouldn't want to use Tivo if you're recording something you plan on keeping.

You actually have the option to save to VCR and it does have USB ports so perhaps they will add in a function to burn to say an external DVD-ROM.

[Guest MrRant]

So, you are saying that TiVo will record programs automatically that you have seen in the past?

 

I'd like to get it, but not any time soon. I heard hooking it up is a pain in the ass. I'd rather wait for DVD-Rs to come out, well, cheaper ones.

It will if you want it too. As far as hooking it up... can you hook up a VCR? That's all there is to it.