TiVo Question

[ChadTower]

Not with DirecTivo, no, not natively anyway.  I hear talk of how they can be hacked to do that but have not tried it.

[shmokes]

There are all kinds of reason to have the tthing constantly recording stuff.  For example, I have my Replay set to record 10 episodes of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.  It works on a first-in first-out basis.  Sure, I hardly see any of them, but every now and then I'm doing something that doesn't require a lot of concentration, so I'll turn on the Daily show and maybe watch three or four episodes back-to-back.  But I want to be watching current stuff, of course.

Or, for example, I watched the whole first season of The West Wing and loved it.  I'd like to watch more, but I'm just too damned busy since this semester started.  In this case  I want it to keep all the old episodes so that when I do have time I don't have to suddenly pick up in the 6th or 7th season or whatever is currently airing.

...and so on.

[duffjr]

but i would think you'd feel compelled to watch every saved show and end up spending your life devoted to tv.

[shmokes]

I guess I'm just more powerful than that.

[duffjr]

but what happens when you want to watch every episode ever of every show?  do tv waves really do anything?  i just got a 30 inch tv setup that's 2 feet away from my eyes at night, the same distance as my monitor.  i just found the discovery science channel.  i am tivo'ing every other episode.

[shmokes]

I guess you just hope it never comes to that. 

[Ed_McCarron]

but i would think you'd feel compelled to watch every saved show and end up spending your life devoted to tv.

Yessss.....  Come over to the dark side... The raster is your friend...  Speak not the TIVO name in vain.

Seriously, I let it record what it wants, and if a show does not catch my interest in about 30 seconds it gets deleted.

Its almost like I have this weird combination of ADD and OCD.  I wanna do obsessive things, but don't have the attention span for it.

[Santoro]

Yeah, I retract my statement partially.

[ChadTower]

but i would think you'd feel compelled to watch every saved show and end up spending your life devoted to tv.

Nope, not at all.  A lot of the recorded stuff gets reaped before it gets watched.  Unless you tell it otherwise, the Tivo will reap an old program to make room for a new one based on various criteria you can supply.

[Samstag]

I find myself watching less and less TV the longer I've had my Tivo.

[ChadTower]

I use it for pro wrestling and football.  I record the wrestling, watch the bits I want, fast forward through the crap.  I record the football and watch it throughout the week.  Once football season is over I don't watch much tv at all except the bits of pro wrestling that I didn't FF.

I use Tivo to filter out most TV so I don't even know what any of the current shows are nor do I care.

My wife uses it to snag all the Melrose Place and 90210 she can get.

My kids use it to get Tom + Jerry and a couple other kids' shows.

We watch far less TV with the Tivo than we would otherwise.

[duffjr]

i was gonna use it to record discovery science, but i realize i want to watch every other show, so it's better to watch them live than fill up my box recording every show.

[Santoro]

Yup, I watch less TV too.  I never surf, it is such a waste of time when I have like 400 GB of my favorite content sitting there waiting for me.  It did take a few months to get over the desire to watch everything I had recorded.  I also haven't endured the torture of a loud commercial in ages.

BTW Hogan's Heroes in Hi-Def kicks ass.  Ah the memories.  But better.

[rampy]

That's not exactly true/accurate. 

Technically you can use a Tivo with anything that ouputs 15khz analog video... but his question, basically, was "does it work the same?"

And it does... for the most part.  It's probably too painful for a liveTV channel flipper... but for doing all the wiz bang automagic season pass type scheduling the ir blaster for slaving/auotmating channel changes on the Set Top Box is fine.

*shrug*

rampy

[rampy]

Anyway, my real purpose for posting was to ask if anyone's used Tivo's new transfering features for video ipod and PSP?  My father-in-law is getting his wife a video ipod for Christmas and he's apparently getting a TIVO.  Has anyone here used the service?  Does it work well?  How long does the encoding process take?  Does it tranfer the video over the network to the PC and then to the iPod from there or does the iPod connect directly to the TIVO?

A buddy of mine has started up some cool utilities for doing just that!

http://www.tvharmony.com/main/products.php

You can set it up to do batch jobs in the middle of night

rampy

[rampy]

BTW, how does the father of BYOPVR know so much about TiVos anyway? 

ha, father of byopvr... more like the skeevy uncle of byopvr! After building the site and researching for months on building a home brew one to save some scratch,  and then got a series 2 tivo for christmas shortly there after.

rampy

[shmokes]

A buddy of mine has started up some cool utilities for doing just that!

http://www.tvharmony.com/main/products.php

You can set it up to do batch jobs in the middle of night

Interesting.  I assume, based on the existence of your buddy's software, that the software that Tivo gives for TivoToGo won't let you do all this stuff like scheduling and so on automatically.  Also, how long does the encoding process take to transfer shows to the iPod?  Lastly, I see that the software doesn't cost anything to download, but is set to expire at the end of the month.  I also see a donate button on his website.  Can you buy a non-expiring version, or will it always be free and only expires to discourage people from continuing to use unfinished software after new versions have been released?

[Santoro]

TiVo recently announced in a press release thatTivoToGo would support transfers to iPod.   

TiVoToGo doesn't support scheduling.  If you know Linux or are daring you can hack your Tivo to transfer the shows out on a schedule using Cron. That is a big project though.

[Santoro]

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[krick]

One TIVO has a lifetime sub, one has a month-to-month, and the third is in boat anchor mode - the modem died.