My Tivo is setting up right now!

[Ender]

What is better, a Tivo or a ReplayTV unit?

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Merkon
What is better, a Tivo or a ReplayTV unit?

*cringes*
You're asking for a flame war with that question!

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: BruinEd03
can you also get a vcr and transfer all the stuff from tivo to the vcr?

-Ed

Yes, with certain models. I'm waiting for a model that will let you record to a DVD player. That would rock.


MWilding, which make did you get?

 

[Ender]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Merkon
What is better, a Tivo or a ReplayTV unit?

*cringes*
You're asking for a flame war with that question!

I still want to know.

And how do you modify either player with IDE Hard Drives you buy at a computer store? IS it difficult? Involve Soldering?

 

[Smolek]

Originally posted by: BruinEd03
can you also get a vcr and transfer all the stuff from tivo to the vcr?

-Ed

yes

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: Merkon

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Merkon
What is better, a Tivo or a ReplayTV unit?

*cringes*
You're asking for a flame war with that question!

I still want to know.

And how do you modify either player with IDE Hard Drives you buy at a computer store? IS it difficult? Involve Soldering?

ReplayTV! it connects via ethernet and i can share shows with people on my network and people over the internet and there is software out there that lets offload all your stuff as MPEGs onto a computer and there is commercial advance which skips all the commercials automatically.

 

[mpitts]

My wife and I love our TiVo. It is great. We are, however, considering the switch to ReplayTV becuase of the ability to hook it up to your home network, download the shows and burn them to VCD/DVD.

 

[CFster]

Originally posted by: Merkon

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: Merkon
What is better, a Tivo or a ReplayTV unit?

*cringes*
You're asking for a flame war with that question!

I still want to know.

And how do you modify either player with IDE Hard Drives you buy at a computer store? IS it difficult? Involve Soldering?

Linkage:

http://www.stevejenkins.com/tivo/newbie.html

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb

http://www.weaknees.com/index.html

 

[johneetrash]

tivo thinks you're gay!

 

[CFster]

Originally posted by: mpitts
My wife and I love our TiVo. It is great. We are, however, considering the switch to ReplayTV becuase of the ability to hook it up to your home network, download the shows and burn them to VCD/DVD.

Download them from where - another Tivo? In the same house or across the net? If you're sharing programs across the internet it takes like a day to transfer a movie - pretty slow...

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: CFster

Originally posted by: mpitts
My wife and I love our TiVo. It is great. We are, however, considering the switch to ReplayTV becuase of the ability to hook it up to your home network, download the shows and burn them to VCD/DVD.

Download them from where - another Tivo? In the same house or across the net? If you're sharing programs across the internet it takes like a day to transfer a movie - pretty slow...

with replays if you have two or more units in the house they can share the shows between then for instance you can record 24 on one and smallville on the other and be cool

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: CFster

Originally posted by: mpitts
My wife and I love our TiVo. It is great. We are, however, considering the switch to ReplayTV becuase of the ability to hook it up to your home network, download the shows and burn them to VCD/DVD.

Download them from where - another Tivo? In the same house or across the net? If you're sharing programs across the internet it takes like a day to transfer a movie - pretty slow...

I have a home network. It would patch into the network with it 10/100 NIC. You can then download the shows that you have recorded (which I believe are in MPEG2 format) and burn them, store them, whatever. Downloading from the ReplayTV to my PC would not take long on a 100bT connection.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: CPA

MWilding, which make did you get?

I got a TIVO Series 2 80 hour DVR

 

[Kadarin]

I've had my Tivo for the last year, and think it's the best thing since sliced bread. However, I wish I had satellite tv instead of this crappy digital cable (the remote takes forever to change channels, and once in a great while, Tivo gets confused by this).. You will find that with Tivo, you watch a lot more tv, and the tv that you do spend time watching is what you want to watch, when you want, not when they want you to.

<-- History Channel buff

 

[blurredvision]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: WoodchuckCharlie
I don't understand why you have to pay a monthly subscription to use the damn thing. It already costs $400 bucks. Am I wrong in thinking this?

because it requires an ongoing service provided by the company.

But I still don't understand. What is their ongoing service? To me, paying monthly to use a TIVO is like paying monthly to use my brand new surround system. Is it required to pay a monthly fee to use it at all, or does the monthly fee just give you extra features that you otherwise wouldn't normally have??

I really don't understand, someone explain. I see how it is a cool device and everything you can do with it, but why is it necessary to pay $13 a month when you have everything you need in the box? What does the $13 pay for?

 

[CFster]

If you get the DirectTivo, you only pay $4.99 per month. If you have DirectTV it's definately the way to go for that reason and because the picture (no compression, so no degredation of signal) and sound quality (5.1 surround) is better than other standalone Tivo units.

The regular monthly fee for a standalone unit is $12.95 per month or a one time lifetime fee of $249. I believe this only applies to the life of the current machine. If you switch machines I believe you have to pay again (not sure on this one).

The service that you are paying for is the Tivo downloading up to date program guides. I believe some Tivo units can be hacked so you don't need to do that - but you will only be able to use it like a VCR - you'll be losing a lot of the scheduling features that make it worthwhile to have.

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: WoodchuckCharlieI really don't understand, someone explain. I see how it is a cool device and everything you can do with it, but why is it necessary to pay $13 a month when you have everything you need in the box? What does the $13 pay for?

The device constantly downloads information about what is on television now and in the future. It is the basis for all of the advanced services such as "subscribing" - for example, you can have it download every Seinfeld episode or every football game or every movie with Clint Eastwood in it. You can also search for programs using key words.

The monthly access fee is what you are paying for this information

 

[Gaard]

Do you guys watch a lot of television?