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Dish Network DVR Hard drive ERASED
Hi. I have a Dish Network 522 DVR. This is the second time in a month that the hard drive has been totally erased. I had over 30 hours of shows on there. The Dish people are clueless. They have no idea why this is happening. There appears to be no way to retrieve the shows at all. I'm pissed.
Has anyone had this happen to them?
-- Chantel
November 18, 2004 in Dish Network | Permalink | Comments (379) | TrackBack
What about a non TIVO PVR?
I want to buy a PVR that works like a VCR but I don't want to pay for the content guide fees of TIVO or Replay.
Where can I buy a HD based PVR that let's me control recording on my own?
-- Mysterious Stranger
November 18, 2004 in DVR | Permalink | Comments (17) | TrackBack
Getting rid of cable box program guide
I just got a Tivo series 2, and I'm using it in conjuction with a Motorola DCT 2000 cable box through Adelphia cable. Only problem is, whenever I change channels, I get both the Tivo onscreen guide at the top and the adelphia program guide at the bottom. Together, they take up about 85% of the screen. Is there any way to get rid of the motorola/adelphia cable guide?
And, if anyone's an expert at cable boxes, why does it take forever for channels to switch after I hit the remote?
-- Scott
November 18, 2004 in TiVo | Permalink | Comments (20) | TrackBack
4-digit Digital Cable Box
My Scientific Atlantic Digital cable box has been improving its channel changing speed, but recently increased to a fourth digit. When TiVo changes its channel, it only inputs 3 digits. Therefore, there's about a 10 second pause between punching in channels on the TiVo remote, and the channel actual changing on the TV. I've tried all the available SA box codes in the TiVo, but none of them (yet) emit 4 digits.
-- dan
November 18, 2004 in Scientific Atlanta | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
How important is the phone?
Do I need to have a phone connected ALL the time? I want to put in a second TiVo [this one goes in the bedroom]. There isn't a phone line nearby. I can run a wire across the room occasionally. Would that work?
-- Howard
November 18, 2004 in TiVo | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack
Shift Recording Quality while recording?
I have a Pioneer 810 TiVo and like to create archive DVDs of favorite movies broadcast over my digital cable system. I know I can't edit before I write to the DVD, which is a royal pain, but I live with it. Recording at extreme quality limits the DVD to 1 hour, high quality to 2 hours. But a movie that goes over 2 hours - must I record at standard quality to squeeze it onto one DVD? Is the best solution to break the recording into 2 chunks, the majority at HQ, the minority at SQ, and then write "both" programs to the DVD?
-- Dan
November 18, 2004 in DVD, TiVo | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
DVB tuner for Linux ?
what is the best TV Tuner card that can pick up DVB-T signals that work's in Linux ?
I have the latest WinTV card that is unsupported at the moment...
DVB-T is also known as Freeview and seeing as the UK is going to turn off its analoge signal and the broadcast's are already in MPEG2 this should be the way to go in the UK and EU if you want a PVR....
-- johnjones
November 18, 2004 in Home Theater PC | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack
DVR for DVD burning
I want to buy a second DVR for my second cable box in order to record and to cut DVDs that will be playable my existing region 1 DVD player. What is a good, not necessarily cheap machine for this purpose?
-- Tyrone Z.
November 18, 2004 in DVD, DVR | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
ReplayTV Upgrades
I am a technophobe who enjoys my DVR but wets my pants at the thought of personally opening it up to upgrade it. I am ready to upgrade two ReplayTV units in my house and put them on a wireless network but have no idea where to start. Any suggestions?
-- RAZ
November 18, 2004 in Hacks, ReplayTV | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBack
display caller-ID on TIVO
I have "caller-id" on my telephone. Before I installed TIVO the incoming call was displayed on my TV set. Even tho TIVO is connected to my phone line it does not display calls.
I understand there is a "hack" in the TIVO software that can make it possible to display the call info.
Does anyone know how to do this?
-- Paul Duffey
November 18, 2004 in Hacks, TiVo | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
