I wonder if they were price matching someone else to get your business? If so, it sounds like you got the deal.
Normally, you go to a retail outllet (like BestBuy and others that carry TiVo) and pay $99 for the TiVo box. Then you go on the website for TiVo and activate the product with one of two choices. Either a monthly charge of $20, or a one time charge of $499 for lifetime. Now there was a promotion for (OTA users only) whereby you could get TiVo for $9.99 a month by typing in promo code: antenna.
Your post sounds interesting and not an experience that I've heard from others.
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I wonder if they were price matching someone else to get your business? If so, it sounds like you got the deal.
Normally, you go to a retail outllet (like BestBuy and others that carry TiVo) and pay $99 for the TiVo box. Then you go on the website for TiVo and activate the product with one of two choices. Either a monthly charge of $20, or a one time charge of $499 for lifetime. Now there was a promotion for (OTA users only) whereby you could get TiVo for $9.99 a month by typing in promo code: antenna.
Your post sounds interesting and not an experience that I've heard from others.
I just picked up a Series 4 Premiere XL. One thing I dont like. If I dont connect it to the internet within a few days it wont even let me play recordings I already have. So if TIVO goes under someday, thousands of these boxes will become landfill material.
The older TIVO's only needed the internet for guide information.
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I just picked up a Series 4 Premiere XL. One thing I dont like. If I dont connect it to the internet within a few days it wont even let me play recordings I already have. So if TIVO goes under someday, thousands of these boxes will become landfill material.
The older TIVO's only needed the internet for guide information.
I've had no issue with the Premiere I use to take to my girlfriends house. I've had it unconnected for days sometimes and I've still been able to watch the previous recordings without an internet connection.
All of a sudden my TiVo remotes live tv button brings up the guide instead of changing tuners!? I tried a remote reset. But took out a premium remote and it's doing the same thing so it must be my TiVo premiere Xl for some reason. Still running 14.8c. So no recent updates. Any ideas??
New TiVo owner here (thanks RCN), does anyone have tips or suggestions on configuring a Harmony remote with the TiVo box (Harmony 900 to be precise)? Maybe it's just me getting used to the TiVo workflow coming from Comcast, but I'm finding the Harmony to be somewhat awkward with the TiVo. Any input is greatly appreciated.
My Harmony One has worked well with my TiVos for years. it's the first universal remote I've owned that felt really good using with my TiVos. And I had tried close to a dozen before the Harmony One came out.
Although since getting a couple of TiVo Bluetooth remotes, I'm not using my Harmony Ones as much as I used to.
I'm a long time Sony DHG-HDD500 user that may soon find himself needing to switch to TiVo due to the advent of SDV in my area. My DHG's (I have 3) support CableCard (but no tuning adapter), have a single tuner, and support (and I actually use) both Cable and OTA capability. My largest HDTV is a 2002 model and has no HDMI, so I use Component connections for that one.
Looking at the current offerings by TiVo, it appears that the Premier XL is the only unit that has capabilities approaching that of the DHG's that I have now. Someone feel free to enlighten me if I'm wrong . . .
Not knowing much about TiVo's, I have a couple of questions;
Can the two tuners in the XL be used (without reconfiguration) to record or watch from Cable, or OTA, or Both, in any combination?
When using with a "tuning adapter", how is channel surfing? Any noticeable delay while the TA does its thing?
How often does TiVo release new models? A model with OTA, Cable, built-in TA, and built-in WiFi would be nice. Any chance of that?
1) Yes - but not the Elite model, that is digital only (but 4 tuners)
2) Can't comment
3) about once every 1.5-2 years on average. But I think the push will be to go more digital rather than OTA in the future, as evidenced by the new Elite model.
It appears that either of the two TiVo wireless network adapters will work, correct?
Will the Premiere XL tune analog Cable channels? There are a couple that we watch infrequently (local news rebroadcast, etc.), or sometimes when the HD cable signal gets too piss-poor weak to watch ESPN-HD we have to switch to ESPN analog to watch the rest of the game . . .
Is there a TiVo-XL Owners Manual available online?
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b_scott.. Thanks for the reply.
Now a couple more questions.
It appears that either of the two TiVo wireless network adapters will work, correct?
Will the Premiere XL tune analog Cable channels? There are a couple that we watch infrequently (local news rebroadcast, etc.), or sometimes when the HD cable signal gets too piss-poor weak to watch ESPN-HD we have to switch to ESPN analog to watch the rest of the game . . .
Is there a TiVo-XL Owners Manual available online?
...................The second core was enabled for the first time in this release. As expected, it will not make drastic changes in many aspects of perceived overall performance, since the UI is not threaded, and that is what the user interacts with the most. But underlying processes will be faster and significant improvements can be seen with in updates, searching, season pass setup, shifting to live TV, deleting programs, possibly network transfer, and possibly other areas. It might also be wholly or partially responsible for the speedup in guide, FF frame rates, and boot times. http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb.................
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I'm a long time Sony DHG-HDD500 user that may soon find himself needing to switch to TiVo due to the advent of SDV in my area. My DHG's (I have 3) support CableCard (but no tuning adapter), have a single tuner, and support (and I actually use) both Cable and OTA capability. My largest HDTV is a 2002 model and has no HDMI, so I use Component connections for that one.........
Ok, so my three new Premier-XL's came yesterday and I had received my Wireless-N Adapters on Wednesday. I also picked up 4 Motorola Tuning Adapters yesterday from Charter.
I finished installing the first TiVo about an hour ago and have a couple of questions right off the bat . . .
There appears to be no way to turn the TiVo off (not counting that "Standby" selection in one of the menus, correct?
The 30-sec "advance" works fine for me, but is there any way to change the 8-sec "back-up" to 5-sec instead?
How do you tune directly to an OTA channel using the keypad, since there is no "." button or "-" button?
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Ok, so my three new Premier-XL's came yesterday and I had received my Wireless-N Adapters on Wednesday. I also picked up 4 Motorola Tuning Adapters yesterday from Charter.
I finished installing the first TiVo about an hour ago and have a couple of questions right off the bat . . .
There appears to be no way to turn the TiVo off (not counting that "Standby" selection in one of the menus, correct?
The 30-sec "advance" works fine for me, but is there any way to change the 8-sec "back-up" to 5-sec instead?
How do you tune directly to an OTA channel using the keypad, since there is no "." button or "-" button?
1) You really don't want to ever turn the TiVo off. It needs to be on to catch recordings, etc. The disc is always recording the last 30 minutes of whatever tuner #1 and tuner #2 are tuned to.
3) The -> (skip) button is also the - button, so for 2-1 you press 2->1
Amazon occasionally gives me a few dollars that I can spend on VOD, so about once a year I try it. It always disappoints. Last night was actually worse than my previous attempts. I got the HD version of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and it had a huge number of encoding glitches, perhaps 15-20 bad ones and quite a few minor ones. The bad glitches would have half the screen pixelated, frozen, or otherwise weird for a couple of seconds. The minor ones would be something like the video freezing for a half second or less, or a short audio dropout.
Netflix runs fine on my Tivo, and programs MP4 and MPG shows that I copy to it also look as good as the original. So is the mistake in Amazon's encoding, Amazon's protocol for uploading it to my Tivo, or something in the Tivo? Is anyone else seeing this sort of stuff? I cannot believe anyone would buy Amazon's videos.
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Amazon occasionally gives me a few dollars that I can spend on VOD, so about once a year I try it. It always disappoints. Last night was actually worse than my previous attempts. I got the HD version of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and it had a huge number of encoding glitches, perhaps 15-20 bad ones and quite a few minor ones. The bad glitches would have half the screen pixelated, frozen, or otherwise weird for a couple of seconds. The minor ones would be something like the video freezing for a half second or less, or a short audio dropout.
Netflix runs fine on my Tivo, and programs MP4 and MPG shows that I copy to it also look as good as the original. So is the mistake in Amazon's encoding, Amazon's protocol for uploading it to my Tivo, or something in the Tivo? Is anyone else seeing this sort of stuff? I cannot believe anyone would buy Amazon's videos.
Yes, it's extremely rare that I've had an issue with Amazon downloads on my TiVo. But over the last few years the two or three times I did have an issue, Amazon was quick to give me a credit.
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