My Tivo has died..
 

I watched my first commercial in two years today.

Time to crack this thing open and do a "Tim Allen" on it.

Whos Tivo?

question.. does tivo work in canada? and where can i get one up here?

3 years I had that thing. Awesome invention. I am amazed it has not taken off more.

http://www.greenwellphoto.com/data/timallen.jpg

RAR RAR RAR RAR!

:Graucho

is tivo superior or the same as my pvr?

my personal video recorder tapes tv shows to a harddrive,

and lets you rewind live tv and pause live tv,

and you can fast forward through the comercials if the shows is saved,

??

anyways mine broke 4 times, but I got refurbished replacements for free from the Bell,

what does a Tivo do?

I never could get mine to "talk" to the satellite box. Changing channels through TiVo was absurdly slow and I had to manually change a channel for recording. Thankfully the modem blew out in a storm so I had an excuse to buy the one that's integrated with DirecTV! MUCH BETTER! :) Plus it downloads off the sat dish and since the TiVo numbers are all long distance for me, and I can't place the call with a calling card, it's saving me about $20 a month. AND DirecTV doesn't charge for it - saving me ANOTHER $12 a month! :)

TiVo's are THE greatest thing since the microwave. You never have to watch a commercial, you can do the season pass thing, search for movies/shows by name, etc.

I LOVE TiVo!!! :thumbsup

Oh man i love Tivo.....

:thumbsup

soo where can i get one.. havent seen any around (in ontario canada)

Maybe it's just the harddrive that crashed! :winkwink: Other than that...who the hell knows, can you throw that shit in a computer?

jDoG

Here are a couple of TiVo "repair" sites:

http://www.tivofaq.com/hack/faq.html
http://www.9thtee.com/tivoupgrades.htm

I was going to open mine and work on the modem, but one it had more than one step, it was out of my realm. :winkwink: I still have it - maybe one day I'll get bored and take it apart. :thumbsup

TiVo DVR:thumbsup

It has a hard drive that records and a more advanced programming box. Which I dont know how to work all the way.

1-800-DIRECTTV

or

http://directtv.com?ref=kenny

I know our HD crashed and burned on us earlier this year. We were able to download some software and put it on a new HD and it worked great in the Tivo. Now we've got about 80 hours of space on ours I think.

I couldn't live without mine. Now I'm trying to figure out if it's worth it to get a 2nd one for the office.

but can u get it in canada lol

Call them and ask

i just c a bunch on ebay.... :)

I wanna get a PVR for bell... too expensive for how often it breaks tho

i wanna just get something that i can hook up to the tv and record.. (aside from a vcr) that doesnt need monthly shit or anything.. dont wanna get expressview either

I believe that the only country besides the US where TiVo is available right now is the UK. Call the TiVo people and pester them though because I bet they will look to expand if enough people let them know there is a market.

jenn, it will work in canada if you have illegal directv :)

They're still around $199 for the cheapest model. A $100 price point would really help them out. I'm surprised that they don't have a small HD model for $99.

I've got digital cable, and we have DVR built into our cable box. I don't know what I'd do without it. Now I can record and program my own backgroud noise :winkwink:

I had TIVO for like a year before mine died also. The modem blew out. Was stupid and bought that "LIFETIME" subscription. Fuck up part is that i didn't know it comes with the box and not the account. Why the hell would i want to buy a lifetime on electronics that would need an upgrade in 3 months?? bitched and moan at TIVO and still didn't get it back

So the next day i went ahead and bought
Ultimate TV by M$

I think its superior to TIVO. I believe its one of the best M$ ever put out. Too bad its discontinued and they don't sell it anymore.
and i only pay an extra $10 a month

my cable box does everything a tivo does

What the fuck is Tivo?

It's a device that records (whatever you are watching) to a hard drive. So you can pause shows, rewind, etc. Hard drives die from time to time.