I have two Tivo boxes. Do I need to pay for both or is my service stay the same as using just one?
duh….. asked:
I have two Tivo boxes. Do I need to pay for both or is my service stay the same as using just one? I use one already but would like to use other one in my bed room. I cant find anything about if the one price covers more then one Tivo.
Thanks for your time!
Can I use Tivo with a Direct TV D11 receiver?
Art Vandelay asked:
I currently have direct TV service with a D11 Direct TV receiver. I’ve never had Tivo before, but want to get it. I would just swap my direct TV box for a upgrade with built-in Tivo, but I can not do that as I am sharing the Direct TV service and can not alter the bill. I hear you can add a Tivo box and service seperate from the Direct TV box.
I currently have direct TV service with a D11 Direct TV receiver. I’ve never had Tivo before, but want to get it. I would just swap my direct TV box for a upgrade with built-in Tivo, but I can not do that as I am sharing the Direct TV service and can not alter the bill. I hear you can add a Tivo box and service seperate from the Direct TV box.
Will the Tivo box control the Direct TV box? I read where you can connect the boxes, but people had problems with my particular Direct TV box (D11) becuase of the usb port rather than a serial port on the back. Is that still a problem or has Tivo upgraded their box to work with the Direct TV D11?
I would like to know that I can replace the Direct TV remote with the new Tivo remote.
Any other thoughts on my situation are apprishiated. Thanks!
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Dvr and a Review of the Service From Directv
June 30, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
David Johnson asked:
If you have not heard much about the TiVo and DVR units offered from DirecTV than it would be a good time to look in to it. If you are still using a VCR to record all of your favorite television shows, then chances are that you have gotten frustrated with VCR timer malfunctions and or recording at the wrong speed, some time recently. These two problems are two of the most common problems people have with their VCR units. This of course stands on top of the basic problem of the VHS tapes cumbersome size. If you yourself do not have bookshelves filled with ugly VHS tapes in your home than chances are that you know a few people who do. If you do not than you probably have boxes of them in your garage. With the TiVo and DVR units offered from DirecTV, you will never have to worry about any of these problems again. In fact, you can just toss your old and obsolete VCR and get ready for trouble free television recording and re-watching bliss! You probably have heard of the device that allows you to actually rewind and pause live television. This is just part of the TiVo and DVR system. In fact, what the TiVo and DVRs actually do is temporarily digitally record everything on television so that you can pick a channel and rewind to a certain time and watch a show. That is right, no more rushing home from work with the worry of missing your favorite television shows! Actually, you can even pause your favorite show or even the live football game when you have to use the bathroom or get something cold to drink! If you leave it paused for a few minutes, then you are basically saving up that time for when the commercials come. Meaning more specifically, that when you have it paused your TiVo unit is continuing to record the show that is still being aired live so by the time the commercials come you can actually fast forward through them! If you are an avid television viewer and you have not yet experienced TiVo and the DVR, you are in for a real treat. Television will never be the same for you afterwards!
DirecTV also offers, what is considered by many, one of the best customer service available from television in the modern day. If you have ever dealt with another television companies customer service, chances are that you have had plenty of bad experiences. Waiting on the phone for an hour and a half just to talk to an unpleasant and incompetent customer service representative is really not a very pleasant experience. Thankfully, this is a problem you will not have with DirecTV’s customer service. DirecTV’s customer service associates are friendly and are highly knowledgeable people with the single goal of fixing your problem as soon as possible, as well as keeping the experience as pleasant as possible. And because DirecTV’s customer service hotline is available 24 hours a day, all week long, even if you have a problem with your service in the wee hours of the morning, you will be able to speak to a friendly customer service associate that will get your service up and running again in no time.
Written by David Johnson. Find more information on cable tv offers as well as satellite tv
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If you have not heard much about the TiVo and DVR units offered from DirecTV than it would be a good time to look in to it. If you are still using a VCR to record all of your favorite television shows, then chances are that you have gotten frustrated with VCR timer malfunctions and or recording at the wrong speed, some time recently. These two problems are two of the most common problems people have with their VCR units. This of course stands on top of the basic problem of the VHS tapes cumbersome size. If you yourself do not have bookshelves filled with ugly VHS tapes in your home than chances are that you know a few people who do. If you do not than you probably have boxes of them in your garage. With the TiVo and DVR units offered from DirecTV, you will never have to worry about any of these problems again. In fact, you can just toss your old and obsolete VCR and get ready for trouble free television recording and re-watching bliss! You probably have heard of the device that allows you to actually rewind and pause live television. This is just part of the TiVo and DVR system. In fact, what the TiVo and DVRs actually do is temporarily digitally record everything on television so that you can pick a channel and rewind to a certain time and watch a show. That is right, no more rushing home from work with the worry of missing your favorite television shows! Actually, you can even pause your favorite show or even the live football game when you have to use the bathroom or get something cold to drink! If you leave it paused for a few minutes, then you are basically saving up that time for when the commercials come. Meaning more specifically, that when you have it paused your TiVo unit is continuing to record the show that is still being aired live so by the time the commercials come you can actually fast forward through them! If you are an avid television viewer and you have not yet experienced TiVo and the DVR, you are in for a real treat. Television will never be the same for you afterwards!
DirecTV also offers, what is considered by many, one of the best customer service available from television in the modern day. If you have ever dealt with another television companies customer service, chances are that you have had plenty of bad experiences. Waiting on the phone for an hour and a half just to talk to an unpleasant and incompetent customer service representative is really not a very pleasant experience. Thankfully, this is a problem you will not have with DirecTV’s customer service. DirecTV’s customer service associates are friendly and are highly knowledgeable people with the single goal of fixing your problem as soon as possible, as well as keeping the experience as pleasant as possible. And because DirecTV’s customer service hotline is available 24 hours a day, all week long, even if you have a problem with your service in the wee hours of the morning, you will be able to speak to a friendly customer service associate that will get your service up and running again in no time.
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DIRECT TV recievers or TIVO’s?
Crystal C asked:
I really need some help. If you could give me some advice it would be great. I have a Direct TV reciever, it runs to a Direct tv DVR and a plain Direct TV reciever upstairs that is combined with a TIVO series 2.
I really need some help. If you could give me some advice it would be great. I have a Direct TV reciever, it runs to a Direct tv DVR and a plain Direct TV reciever upstairs that is combined with a TIVO series 2.
A year ago we purchased 5 Tivo 2’s so we could wirelessly pass Tivo’ed shows to 3 of our childrens rooms via wireless network. Only 2 rooms could be accessed at a time, we purchased 2 boosters – still no help. We then went local cable (COX) and set up the other rooms, but it became costly and we like NFL ticket.
So we decided to run CAT 5 through the entire house, and two of the kids rooms have Cat 5 but 1 has nothing, not even phone line.
We were told by TIVO that all could link wireless, we were also told if some are on CAT5 the one that wasn’t hooked up could then be accessed wirelessly – not so.
Now we have 5 TIVO’s not being used, 1 Direct TV dish, and wired CAT5 throughout the house.
We are about to hire a very experienced technical person to hook us up, but he needs to know what we want. He can run CAT5 and phone to the bedroom not working, but we don’t know if running DIRECT TV through all rooms with individual DTV boxes is the best or if we can somehow use our TIVO’s we spent so much money on? Any suggestions?
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Record Tv Shows While On Vacation
September 23, 2007 by admin · Leave a Comment
Mikael Rieck asked:
You probably aren’t aware of it but there is a good chance that your digital video recorder has the ability to be programmed to record specific TV shows from places other than your living room. This might sound a bit strange at first but let me try to explain how this works. You are especially lucky if your digital video recorder happens to be a TiVo.
TiVo provides an online service that will allow you to access your TiVo digital video recorder over the Internet. This way you are able to program it to record a TV show or movie that you can then watch later at a time that suits you. The online service provided by TiVo comes free as part of your TiVo subscription and is available on all TiVo Series 1 to 3 boxes.
It is not quite accurate to say that you can access your TiVo box online. It would be more accurate to say that you can access the box in a rather indirect way. This mentioned service works by letting you access TiVo’s web servers and by logging into your TiVo account, you can make the changes to what you want recorded. Those changes take place on the servers.
When your TiVo box contacts those web servers (this is done periodically), the entered scheduling information will be downloaded to the DVR and then the actual TiVo box can carry out your instructions to record the TV program of your choice. Now isn’t that a clever feature?
You will need experience
Even though the system is highly recommended it can create something of a problem for the less experienced users. The TiVo boxes contact the TiVo servers but it is done at irregular intervals and therefore the boxes won’t necessarily receive your updated instructions in time to act on them. You might end up without having the program recorded that you wanted. The number of hours in advance of the program you have to change the instructions via the online service depend solely on what type of TiVo box you own.
If you own the TiVo Series3 box it will make contact with your home wireless network every half hour and update the information you have entered with the online service. So you will need to make the changes at least 30 minutes before the show you want recorded is aired.
The TiVo Series1 box requires that you plan ahead because this model connects to TiVo’s servers via the phone lines and this is only done once every twenty four hours. So you will need to plan at least a whole day in advance or you might want to consider upgrading to the Series3 version.
Record while on vacation
There can be some implications with this kind of technology but it is obvious that if you can make it work for you then it can’t be much easier to record the TV shows or sports events that you find out that you have to watch on TV, even though they are going to come on before you get home.
Now you can just contact the TiVo servers via the online service they provide. This will take care of it (assuming your TiVo box is on a wireless network). Even if you are away on an extended holiday, you can update the DVR’s instructions for which show you want recorded.
This service is truly valuable but it can some people might argue that with an addition of a SlingBox you can download the contents of your DVR directly over the Internet to your laptop or other portable device. Now this will not be for the ordinary family man that forgot to set the VCR before he left home but if you are truly into the technology behind these things do a Google search on the topic to learn more.
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You probably aren’t aware of it but there is a good chance that your digital video recorder has the ability to be programmed to record specific TV shows from places other than your living room. This might sound a bit strange at first but let me try to explain how this works. You are especially lucky if your digital video recorder happens to be a TiVo.
TiVo provides an online service that will allow you to access your TiVo digital video recorder over the Internet. This way you are able to program it to record a TV show or movie that you can then watch later at a time that suits you. The online service provided by TiVo comes free as part of your TiVo subscription and is available on all TiVo Series 1 to 3 boxes.
It is not quite accurate to say that you can access your TiVo box online. It would be more accurate to say that you can access the box in a rather indirect way. This mentioned service works by letting you access TiVo’s web servers and by logging into your TiVo account, you can make the changes to what you want recorded. Those changes take place on the servers.
When your TiVo box contacts those web servers (this is done periodically), the entered scheduling information will be downloaded to the DVR and then the actual TiVo box can carry out your instructions to record the TV program of your choice. Now isn’t that a clever feature?
You will need experience
Even though the system is highly recommended it can create something of a problem for the less experienced users. The TiVo boxes contact the TiVo servers but it is done at irregular intervals and therefore the boxes won’t necessarily receive your updated instructions in time to act on them. You might end up without having the program recorded that you wanted. The number of hours in advance of the program you have to change the instructions via the online service depend solely on what type of TiVo box you own.
If you own the TiVo Series3 box it will make contact with your home wireless network every half hour and update the information you have entered with the online service. So you will need to make the changes at least 30 minutes before the show you want recorded is aired.
The TiVo Series1 box requires that you plan ahead because this model connects to TiVo’s servers via the phone lines and this is only done once every twenty four hours. So you will need to plan at least a whole day in advance or you might want to consider upgrading to the Series3 version.
Record while on vacation
There can be some implications with this kind of technology but it is obvious that if you can make it work for you then it can’t be much easier to record the TV shows or sports events that you find out that you have to watch on TV, even though they are going to come on before you get home.
Now you can just contact the TiVo servers via the online service they provide. This will take care of it (assuming your TiVo box is on a wireless network). Even if you are away on an extended holiday, you can update the DVR’s instructions for which show you want recorded.
This service is truly valuable but it can some people might argue that with an addition of a SlingBox you can download the contents of your DVR directly over the Internet to your laptop or other portable device. Now this will not be for the ordinary family man that forgot to set the VCR before he left home but if you are truly into the technology behind these things do a Google search on the topic to learn more.
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