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TiVo Series3 and my Sony CRT TV

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This is not a critical, but certainly annoying problem. The folks from the TiVo forum sent me over here to talk to the really knowledgeable folks. I think they mentioned something about "super geeks".

Anyhow, I just bought a new Series3 HD TiVo box to replace my old one that died, don't have the HD TV yet, but I'm working on it.

My current TV is a 4 year old Sony flat screen CRT. And sigh, I have Charter Cable, who at least were able to supply me with the right CableCard, finally.

Here's the problem: When I power on the TV it comes on to normal TV channels and I get "no signal" and snow. I have to switch it to Video 1 to get picture and sound.

The TiVo box is connected to the TV using the supplied RGB and audio cables as well as an S video cable.

All the recording is going well, the picture quality is fab compared to my old series 2.

It's just a pain to have to go scramble for the remote to change the video input each time I turn on the TV.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks,
B
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One tuner on my S3 will select a channel (Discovery, I think) overnight to record "suggestions, etc." On my older S1, that does the same thing, but I prefer to watch a particular channel at 5AM as I get ready for work so I manually scheduled a 5 min. long recording every AM on that channel, keeping only one episode so I always have a 30 minute buffer of the monring news. You might be seeing your S3 also turning a particular channel for those suggestions, etc. Otherwise, I am stumped.

YMMV
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If you want your cable channels to show when you turn on your TV, you'll have to split the cable before it goes into your Tivo, and plug the new one into the RF jack on your TV. Then have your TV scan for channels and you're set. Most TVs boot up in TV mode by default, and if your Tivo is not outputting on channel 3 then this is the easy way to fix that. Plus you won't have to put up with the annoying Tivo channel change lag if you want to watch live TV, and you'll free up both Tivo tuners to record anytime.
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