TiVo just updated their software because Tribune Media, who provides their guide data, changed the names of program catagories they used. Now, when you search or setup wishlists, there are 93 sports sub-catagories. According to Bob Pony of TiVo Product Marketing, "we moved the five most popular sports to the top, added a separator line, and alphabetized the other 88." Those 5 sports are football, baseball, basketball, auto racing and soccer! Yep, that's right, no hockey
Wow. And we didn't even have to flood an on-line poll to do it. Any way of finding the alphabetical list of the other 88 sports?
Boy, TivoPony gets around. It's interesting that I currently check only two message boards on the internet--bigsoccer, and a tivo message board (I am a recent Tivo convert), and Bob Pony has been on both of them...
Thank you Fox Sports World And thank you every foreign language channel in America. For example, when I'm home I set up TiVo for every Sunday 5-7 on the iChannel for some Serie A. I'd guess that the same holds true for people seeking out the sport on Univision, Telemundo, RAI International and the rest of the foreign language channels. Surely, the sport itself has to be one of the most popular on TV...TiVo is a great aid in finding the games.
I totally concur. With Tivo, I can just use the search feature to search out any program having anything to do with soccer, and program it in to record. I don't have FSW, unfortunately, but Fox Sports Chicago plays a Premiership game every week, but not at the same time or day, so I have a "season pass" designated for that. Now it automatically records the game no matter when it is on. Tivo and soccer were made for each other...
Soccer and TiVo were definitely made for each other. UEFA / Champions League / EPL on FSW or espn2 while you're at work? Tivo caught it. Mexican league replay at 3 am on Galavision? Tivo caught it. 7 am starts from Serie A on RAI? Tivo caught it. The dog I had when I was a kid was not as dependable.
Could someone explain what tivo is, and how it works? I wonder if I have access to it without realizing it.
Everyone has access to it because you just need to buy it. This will explain all http://www.tivo.com/1.0.asp I have been hyping tivo for almost 2 and half years now on this site and it great to see people catching on. Only 10 more months and the HD Tivo will be available!! Andy
What about that "Season Pass" feature? Can you set that up for an unlimited amount of shows or is there some memory limits which say, only allow you to set them up for maybe 4-5 shows??
Nope, the only limit is the size of the hard drive. I have had over 20 season passes running at the same time before. Andy
My wife and I have around 40 season passes right now. It's getting to the point where we have multiple time conflicts and we're having to negotiate about whose show gets higher priority on the Season Pass list. My 24 won over her Smallville, but in exchange, her Third Watch wins over my Joe Millionaire. Such is marriage.
You live on Long Island, which means that you have Cablevision as your cable provider. If you can get a clear signal, dump them and move to Directv with TiVo. Trust me on this one. http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/imagine/TIVO.jsp
What's great about season pass, is that you can program your tivo to keep only a certain number of shows. For example, I currently keep only one Premiership game at a time, because I only get one per week--and I will always watch it before the following one gets recorded. On the other hand, I have programmed tivo to record and keep three Simpsons at a time, so I can come home from work and pick which one from the day I want to watch. We normally keep two of each tv series, just in case we don't get to viewing it before the following week's episode comes on. This has already saved us on 24 this year twice! (Of course, then I gotta find a block of 2 hours to watch both weeks instead of just one). Oh, and skipping over commercials? Love it. I have a Hughes Series 2 tivo, and there is a way to program the remote control to get a 30 second skip feature (I don't know if it works on Sony...)
I do something similar with the EPL Review Show and the EPL Weekend Preview Show on FSW. Since TiVo doesn't know which showing is the first showing of the week and which ones are repeats, I just tell it to only save one episode of each. So even though it records each show about four times apiece, I only see it once in my menu. It does. I've got a Series 1 Sony stand-alone, and it works just great.
Alternatively, if he doesn't want to get rid of Cablevision and/or if he can't get satellite, then he can get a stand-alone TiVo and it'll work with Cablevision. A stand-alone TiVo works with anything and everything. But it doesn't let you record two things at once or watch one thing while recording the other (well, most of the time it doesn't).
I love Tivo but could someone get the message across that the EPL Review Show isn't a one-time special so that I can make a season pass of it instead of a wishlist.
Question for the TiVo geeks. Will it work without keeping the phone line hooked up all the time? Neither of our TVs are conveniently located near a phone line.
Yes, although you are much better off running a long phone line there so you never have to think about it. What I did was just split the line to my phone and run a cord along the wall to Tivo. Otherwise, you will need to manually start the daily call to download the schedule. You wouldn't have to do it every day, but it's just easier if you don't have to think about it.
Brian, Tivo calls home regularly (once a day) to update the schedule information (which is the heart and soul of Tivo). Here is just one of a 1000 choices to solve this problem. With that being said, why does it matter if you are not near a phone line? You can have a phone line anywhere you have an electrical outlet by purchasing a cheap wireless phone jack. http://www.buy.com/retail/product_jump.asp?sku=90110079 You can pm or email with any specific questions you might have. As an aside to this: Much like Tivo, I have no idea how I lived before going wireless. My wife and I have our entire lan in our house wireless right now (we did this around a year ago). My wife can be on the front stairs with her laptop and I can be on the back deck and we can both be surfing the net and or printing or both VPNing into our work with not a single cable near us. Quite slick indeed! Andy
That's cool - do you have one? Do they work through walls? Any problems with breaks in connection or poor reception? I wonder if it would work with my turn of the century dial-up modem.
No. All my wireless stuff is for my lan. Whom ever built my house must have been a phone nut because their is a phone jack on almost every wall (I kid you not). As long as you do not have metal studs in your walls, you should not see any issues. If I have had a VPN up almost continually for a year via my cable modem, I doubt you would have any problems with the dial up modem relic. Andy
Thanks, Andy. Didn't even think of that. Got a laptop a few months ago and have a wireless card that allows me to surf, etc. from anywhere. I still haven't set up file sharing (not a bigissue because the house isn't that big) but with both of us doing freelance writing, it's getting good use. Just added Office XP last night to the laptop so we are cruising. With one VCR kinda on the fritz, I might just have to seriously look at TiVo now.
You could have ten brand new VCR's and you should still be seriously looking at Tivo. This many people are not blowing smoke for no reason. The product is that damn good (to borrow a catch phrase from a wrestler). Andy