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I just called Time Warner in NYC to set up a cableCARD, and they told me that they will only provide cards for a handful of specific Tivo models (not including mine). Now what? Go argue at the service center? Call back and lie about the model number to get the tech to show up?
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# ¿ Dec 27, 2008 00:22 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 22:53 |
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bradzilla posted:Does this mean no PPV at all, or would I still be able to call Comcast and manually place an order for a PPV? No PPV at all. A CableCARD device like a tivo can't receive them.
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# ¿ Jan 11, 2009 07:32 |
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Which shouldn't really be all that painful once you get the Harmony configured.
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# ¿ Jul 18, 2009 15:36 |
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A channel has disappeared off my Tivo and I'm sure it's one I'm supposed to be getting. Is there anything I can do from this end to diagnose it or should I just go ahead and call the cable company?
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# ¿ Aug 22, 2009 21:20 |
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Kilson posted:Tivo didn't give you a message about the channel lineup changing? (I seem to get at least one such message a week - hooray Comcast?) It gives me those so often and about channels I care so little about that I just glaze over them. I guess I did miss an important message because the channel I wanted had just been relocated. Thanks!
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# ¿ Aug 25, 2009 20:26 |
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When I switch my TV to the Tivo input, I get a bright green screen and a horribly loud buzzing sound that I take to mean that the HDMI handshake failed. Is this the sort of thing that can be fixed by a reboot, or do I start worrying? (I haven't rebooted it yet because it's in the middle of taping something.)
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# ¿ Nov 17, 2009 04:08 |
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Deathlove posted:Only one way to find out - rebooting's always fixed the random problem with video output. Yeah, it did, but I also discovered that the tivo had been entirely frozen for all that time and none of last night's shows were recorded. Doh.
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# ¿ Nov 17, 2009 19:16 |
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Time Warner is paying me to keep my old cable box in the closet while I use the Tivo. If I turn it in to them, it will invalidate some secret bundle discount clause in the service agreement and my cost will end up higher than if I just let it gather dust.
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2009 15:52 |
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Golbez posted:I don't know how big uncompressed video is, I guess. True uncompressed HD video consumes hundreds of megabytes per second and can only be handled on serious workstations with huge RAID setups. Even within real editing rooms much of the work is done with media that's been compressed in some way just for logistics (and because the computer can re-apply the edits to the uncompressed version later automatically).
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# ¿ Jan 1, 2010 18:36 |
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Whenever I try to tune into Comedy Central HD on Time Warner in New York (channel 745), the tivo instantly crashes and has to be rebooted. Is this just TWC bungling something spectacularly, or is my device starting to die?
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# ¿ Feb 11, 2010 18:20 |
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Tivos can already stream, the main reason any given tivo will fail to stream any given recording is that it obeys the copy protection metadata applied to it by your cable company. Supporting additional streaming formats and technologies will not fix this, it's a different sort of problem.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2010 01:07 |
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qirex posted:Being able to stream your videos from other places on your network would be a really big deal and position them better against boxee, and WDTV. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but I already have a utility on my computer that will play shows off the Tivo (ok, download and then play, but that's a trivial difference). The capability is there in the box. It will let me space-shift any show that is not copy protected- but that's virtually none of what I record, because Time Warner throws the no-copy flag on everything. Having a fancy streaming server with an interface and a transcoder and DLNA inside the tivo will not get around this flag or their policy of obeying it. In other news, my tivo continues to be unable to receive Comedy Central HD without crashing after a few minutes. So long, Jon Stewart's pores, I hardly knew ye.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2010 02:11 |
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So not only did they announce wholly underwhelming features, they announced wholly underwhelming features that don't actually exist? Nice job.
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# ¿ Mar 4, 2010 00:24 |
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Does this mean Time Warner will stop paying me to keep a cable box in my closet? (When I tried to turn it in and go CC-only, they told me the total monthly fee would be higher if I removed it from my account. Go figure.)
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2010 03:07 |
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The tuners are in the Tivo (or other CableCard device) itself, the card only performs decryption of digital channels.
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2010 00:44 |
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chemosh6969 posted:If you have an ipad, the Tivo app will let you. I assume this still obeys the do-not-copy flags, right? So on certain e: And it's all academic as the app says my Tivo is too old to be supported.
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2011 18:36 |
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chemosh6969 posted:I've had a tivo for around 10 years and have only run into a couple of shows like that with Charter. Time Warner sets the flag indiscriminately on every non-network channel. I haven't been able to use any of the Tivo's transfer features, ever.
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# ¿ Apr 21, 2011 16:39 |
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My cablecard has remained provisioned for at least four years now.
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# ¿ Oct 10, 2011 04:38 |
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Not interested in the streaming until they tell me it can't be completely neutered by cable companies setting the no-copy flag on their entire lineup (thanks, Time Warner).
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# ¿ Jan 11, 2012 05:06 |
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IR is godawful technology and I wish the whole industry would conspire to kill it like the computer industry did to everything that wasn't USB.
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# ¿ Jun 18, 2013 21:40 |
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Time Warner recently changed my lineup, so I'm trying to get the Tivo to redownload the channel listing. How long is this supposed to take? I left it sitting there for over two hours and it's still just on "preparing".
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# ¿ Jun 11, 2014 03:18 |
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I got a CableCARD several years ago and a guy had to come to my house to personally insert it into the Tivo. Glad to know it's gotten a lot better.
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# ¿ Jun 16, 2014 17:15 |
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I don't suppose this will make it down to my old Series 3?
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# ¿ Jul 15, 2014 17:48 |
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That sounds like it's halfway between a normal Tivo and industrial strength multichannel monitoring systems. Maybe they can sell them to people who want to start media watchdog youtube channels?
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2014 16:35 |
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Do either of you use an external SDV adapter? That sounds very much like what I see when mine needs a reboot and what happened around the time that TWC changed my lineup a few months ago (in NYC).
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# ¿ Oct 23, 2014 16:20 |
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If I don't replace my tivo when it breaks it'll be because I'm finally fed up with external SDV adapters.
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# ¿ Sep 30, 2015 20:46 |
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I'm finally fed up with my antediluvian Series 3 and looking to replace it, but I'm confused by Tivo's current product line. The Roamio Pro is way more DVR than I need but the Bolt seems to have a lot of extraneous features (all I want it to do is record digital cable) and I hate the curved case. Other online stores have a listing for a much cheaper non-Pro Roamio but it's nowhere on the official site, was this discontinued or something? What subtle things would I give up by getting one based on the last-generation architecture?
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# ¿ Feb 23, 2016 20:22 |
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I'm definitely not getting the Pro, just trying to decide between the Bolt and the midrange Roamio.
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# ¿ Feb 23, 2016 20:48 |
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I don't know what that is either but I'm guessing it's the reason all the movies in my guide are now described with punched-up ad copy in place of the hilariously prosaic language they used a few days ago.
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# ¿ Sep 13, 2016 05:53 |
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Yeah, now that I'm checking I see several shows are missing episodes and just have "<channel> Programming" in their time slot. And I'm in the largest US media market so everywhere else is probably super hosed.
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# ¿ Sep 13, 2016 06:09 |
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CC still has "Comedy Central Programming" in the Daily Show/@Midnight slot for all of next week (although strangely tonight and tomorrow are correct). Is there a command to make the Tivo refresh its listings somewhere in the menu?
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# ¿ Sep 15, 2016 04:41 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 22:53 |
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That fixed up all the errors I had spotted so far, thanks.
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# ¿ Sep 16, 2016 15:25 |