Tivo Users: "Please Wait...This might take a minute..."

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  • Jace
    FBOP Class Of 2013
    • Jan 2004
    • 35562
    #1

    Tivo Users: "Please Wait...This might take a minute..."

    Do you ever see that pop up and think to yourself "dammit!"

    we are rearranging our seasons passes and it has come up like 3 times now, each time like a 5-6 miinute wait...haha

    annoying!
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    • RayVega
      Confirmed User
      • Jul 2004
      • 4212
      #2
      Tivo is probably the one piece technological growth that has changed my life the most in the past year (along with my ipod)...I'll wait the 5 min...lol
      Ray "The Don" Vega

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        • Jace
          FBOP Class Of 2013
          • Jan 2004
          • 35562
          #3
          Originally posted by RayVega
          Tivo is probably the one piece technological growth that has changed my life the most in the past year (along with my ipod)...I'll wait the 5 min...lol
          oh, I most definitely agree...I could not live without my tivo

          in fact, in all seriousness, I would probably watch far less tv without it

          we don't even touch our bedroom tv anymore because we have to watch commercials on it

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            • lucky1
              Confirmed User
              • Sep 2005
              • 309
              #4
              Tivo needs an affiliate program that offers free in home trials for a month. After the month is over the customer either pays for the unit and subscription or sends it back. If they keep it you get paid.

              If you could get people to sign up for a trial this would be the easiest sale ever.
              The conversion ratio from trial to sale would be insane.

              I couldn't live without Tivo for more than a day or two now and I hardly ever watch tv anymore.
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                • Jace
                  FBOP Class Of 2013
                  • Jan 2004
                  • 35562
                  #5
                  Originally posted by lucky1
                  Tivo needs an affiliate program that offers free in home trials for a month. After the month is over the customer either pays for the unit and subscription or sends it back. If they keep it you get paid.

                  If you could get people to sign up for a trial this would be the easiest sale ever.
                  The conversion ratio from trial to sale would be insane.

                  I couldn't live without Tivo for more than a day or two now and I hardly ever watch tv anymore.
                  yeah, I agree

                  a tivo affiliate program would be insanely successful

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                    • Peaches
                      Old broad
                      • Oct 2002
                      • 13933
                      #6
                      IIRC, TiVo itself is actually losing money and always has. I have a DirecTV TiVo (I originally had the first one that ever came out where you had to basically use aluminum foil to make the TiVo "talk" to your cable/sat box) but when I bought one for DirecTV for my Dad recently, it was no longer TiVo.

                      Most cable companies have their own DVRs too.

                      Jace, I haven't opened it yet, but there's a thing you can buy that will send the remote signal from your bedroom to the TiVo through a wall. Got it at Frys.

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                        • munki
                          Do Fun Shit.
                          • Dec 2004
                          • 13393
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Jace
                          yeah, I agree

                          a tivo affiliate program would be insanely successful
                          They have one ish... not directly through Tivo... but aff dish net or directtv sales.

                          My girl pimps dish...

                          “I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” -Oscar Wilde

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                            • Jace
                              FBOP Class Of 2013
                              • Jan 2004
                              • 35562
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Peaches
                              IIRC, TiVo itself is actually losing money and always has. I have a DirecTV TiVo (I originally had the first one that ever came out where you had to basically use aluminum foil to make the TiVo "talk" to your cable/sat box) but when I bought one for DirecTV for my Dad recently, it was no longer TiVo.

                              Most cable companies have their own DVRs too.

                              Jace, I haven't opened it yet, but there's a thing you can buy that will send the remote signal from your bedroom to the TiVo through a wall. Got it at Frys.
                              well, the problem is the bedroom is up one floor and on the the other side of the house, so I would have to wire the tivo out of the box and through the walls across the house

                              and yeah, directv no longer uses tivo, but you can buy the tivo directv units still, just not through directv

                              and directv still supports tivo, and for $4.95 a month for a directv reciever with dual tuners and tivo, you can't beat it!

                              not to mention we now have XM Radio included with directv...WOOT!

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