Tivo

[Zero]

If u can skip the channels and stuff.......is that only with speciaific channels?

All the features work regardless of what channel you're watching.

DO u get extra television channels with the box?

No, it works with your existing aerial/satellite/cable TV system.

[Lowtone]

Originally posted by ZeroSignal


All the features work regardless of what channel you're watching.


No, it works with your existing aerial/satellite/cable TV system.

ok. so 200quid for a hard drive and u can skip channels.
Not worth it in my opinion

[doogie]

No, no, no......

200 quid (plus 200 lifetime subscription) for a new way to watch your TV!

How do you watch TV?

How many channels do you have? Are you going to flick through them all looking for something to watch?

How do you know what's on?

How do you know when (for example) UK Gold start repeating your favourite programme?

Do you know that if you want to watch programme X and programme Y which are on at the same time, that its ok, because programme Y is repeated at 3am 2 days later?

I used to watch TV...... I had it on constantly, mainly showing Kerrang due to nothing being on. I had Digiguide on one of my PCs announcing when programmes were coming on, and I would reach up, grab my controller and zap to the appropriate channel.

If I went out, I didn't get to watch the programmes that I wanted. OK, I *could* have set the VCR, remembering that I was stuck with one sky channel cause the VCR can't change that, and that I'm stuck with 8 timer recordings etc, etc, but most of the time I just left it.

If I got a phone call in the middle of a programme, or wanted to get a sandwich, or anything, I was stuck.

Now that Tivo knows what I watch......

Tivo records everything that I like (and things it thinks I might like )

Because everything I watch is recorded, I don't need to change anything..... I can come in from work late, go out somewhere, anything, and my programmes are recorded for me.

Because everything I watch is recorded, I can pause, rewind, fast forward etc, etc as necessary

Because everything I watch is recorded and indexed I can flick through and choose what I want to watch at that point in time, including looking at which episode of the Simpsons etc it is before deciding wether to watch it or not, or wether to delete it straight away.

If I wanted to watch live tv, Tivo helps me there too...... obviously you can't fast forward if you're watching something as its being broadcast.... but you can rewind, pause, ask a programme to record 5 minutes before the end and record the whole programme.....!

OK...... enough Tivo evangelising...! I heard some guys on the home automation mailing list going on about how good it was, and was pretty sceptical, then bought one and changed the way I watch TV forever... I'm actually getting decent value out of my Sky subscription now by getting to watch stuff that I want irrespective of when it's broadcast

[Lowtone]

lmao.
Fuk - r u employed by Tivo?
I'm not a big telly fan. Ppl say i spend too much time on the net but they forget that i watch nxt to zero telly so me sittin on a screen on the net really equals out to them sittin watchin telly!
So, i dont think somethin like this would b good for me. Sounds cool tho if ur a telly fan

[doogie]

hehehheheehhe....... I wish! Nah, just love my little silver box

OK...... I normally sit on my laptop infront of the TV.... like I'm doing just now.

I'm an AV person....... Put it this way.... I have a 300 DVD changer and have loads of discs that wont fit in it...... need to buy another one to store the collection.... at the moment!

[Lowtone]

Originally posted by doogie
hehehheheehhe....... I wish! Nah, just love my little silver box

OK...... I normally sit on my laptop infront of the TV.... like I'm doing just now.

I'm an AV person....... Put it this way.... I have a 300 DVD changer and have loads of discs that wont fit in it...... need to buy another one to store the collection.... at the moment!

jeysus.
Did u see the south park a week or soemthin ago? It was about a new video games console that they were obsessed with....
Much like doogie

[doogie]

Yeah....... I download South Park off the net a couple of days after its on in the states.....

Series 6 is having summer break just now though but should be back in a few weeks

(Channel 4 is showing series 5 just now.....!)

Just wish South Park would come to DVD faster........ I love it, but I've watched the first four series a million times.......

[Lowtone]

hehe. I don't really watch south park...just the odd time wen im passing. I like the political jokes and stuff but i dnt like the "haha u farted" jokes.
I did watch last nties on channel 4 with bin laden. Funny as fuk!

[Semprini]

Oh dear.....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/25436.html

[crunchy frog]

We were taping Frasier at the time so nothing happened to ours Serves people right for not liking Frasier!

[doogie]

I saw the *explosion* on the Tivo forums about it...... and I really didn't think it was a problem..... OK it didn't record for us because Frasier clashed with it

But..... Tivo recorded something (like it does with suggestions) and it went into reserved recording space, so it didn't take up any user recording space.....!

Maybe I'm too easy going......! *shrugs shoulders*

[Lowtone]

Ohh i love frasier! And cheers