Automatic TiVoToGo Transfers?

Has anyone come up with a nice way to automate TiVo ToGo transfers from unit to PC? I'd really like to have the ability to make my shows transfered to some network storage or DVD burner automatic if possible.

Perhaps this is just what the television studios don't want me to do, but I will continue to dream.
-- Jason Coleman

July 19, 2005 in TiVo | Permalink | Comments (2)

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

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

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

Digital Ready TV Capture Card

I have Comcast digital cable and have been thinking about getting a Tivo since the PVR Comcast offers in not available in my area, but I would rather make my own PVR so I can playback DIVX and XVID also.  Does anyone know of a Hybrid or Digital TV caputure card, and if so how well does it work?
-- Jason

November 12, 2004 in Comcast, Hacks, TiVo | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

LOST / WEST WING conflict

I have a problem -- one that's shared by anyone else who happens to be a fan of both LOST and THE WEST WING (which I'm guessing is a lot of people).

Now that LOST is clocking in at 1:01, it overlaps with WEST WING by one minute -- and hence poses a scheduling conflict.  TiVo says I have to pick one or the other, and can't record both.  Ack!

But since more and more shows are starting to impose this sort of weird scheduling, it seems to me that TiVo should simply give me the option to start a scheduled recording a minute late, or stop it a minute early.  However, currently it only offers the reverse -- I can start a recording early, or stop it late -- but that doesn't solve my problem.

(Furthermore, under "Record by Time or Channel", I can only schedule recordings at 5 minute increments -- which also doesn't solve my problem.)

Do you know if TiVO has any plans to address this?  I can't be the first person to have this issue.
- Paul

November 7, 2004 in TiVo, TV & HDTV | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBack

Remaining Capacity on Series 2 TiVos

What is the best way to determine the amount of capacity remaining on a Series 2 TiVo, considering the OS doesn't inherently have this feature.
--EMG

November 5, 2004 in TiVo | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack

Call your Tivo?

I am a senior at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts.  I took a course last semester in voice recognition software, and we added functionality where you could call your PVR.  Since my group was with poor college students, we went out and bought a TV Tuner card and installed mythtv on our computer.  We then went ahead and built the functionality where you could call your Tivo box from any phone and schedule a recording.  My question is, for all of the Tivo customers out there, would you want to be able to call your box if you forgot to schedule a recording?

This system really works.  It's not fake.
-- Daniel Wolchonok

November 4, 2004 in Hacks, TiVo | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack

Streaming video to Tivo

Is there a way to stream videos from a computer to a tivo via a network? I see alot of movies on my computer, and I was wondering if I could do that so that I wouldn't have to watch stuf f on my tiny lcd screen in my unconfortable swivel chair.
--Alex Basile

November 4, 2004 in Home Theater PC, Networking, TiVo | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack