ptholt

Nick exact details of what you can and cant do are in the tivo faq i sent you yesterday (the uk version). There also a link to it in this post i think (its on gary sargeants site)

NeilT

Nick

without a subscription is pretty much useless - you can do timed recordings (I think) but thats about it.

Get a subscription - for a tenner a month its well worth it, especially now the new TIVO software is released.

Neil

Mr Footlong

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Dude, when do I ever read helpful information?

Cheers mate

matt b

Just phoned the Letchworth superstore and they are doing this offer until the end of the week

-Am seriously considering this but £99 seems too good to be true. Does the £299 include free subscription or something?
-Is this offer the real deal?
-started to read the tivo site. one quick further ques- this half hour automatic recording, is that just for the channel you are watching or is it for all of them (what normally happpens to me is that i realise something is good on half an hour after its started)?

cheers

Sieze

I spoke to them at 2.00 pm Wed. They told me they had 83 left in the warehouse and basically have to sell them all. The offer might still be going on thurs.

ptholt

I wonder if they are just selling off the series 1 box.......

or whether a replacement is about to be delivered.....

Andrewza

Knowing my luck they'll bring out a new one with network connectivity along the lines of Replay 4000 series in the states, which is what I really want

NeilT

MattB - the half hour recording is for the channel you are watching, you can then press record half way through and choose to either record the program from the start or from the point you are at now.

To be honest we rarely watch live tv anymore - after a while the Tivo picks up on what you like watching and records it for you as a suggestion so you end up only watching whats been recorded.

have a look at www.tivocommunity.com loads of info on there.

cheers

Neil
www.scoobyworld.co.uk

Mr Footlong

iTrader: (7)

I have a question about Picture quality Via the Scarts.

I am very fussy about picture quality and I have a large rear projection television. This is the set up that I currently have:

TV with 1xRGB scart and 2 normal ones

Sky Digibox into TV Scart into RGB on Telly
VCR into Scart 2 on Telly
Tivo into Scart 3 on telly

Sky Digibox VCR Scart into AUX Scart on Tivo
Tivo VCR Scart into Line in Scart on VCR

Anyways........The reason that I have done it this way is that I want the strongest possible RGB signal into the Telly. However, the signal going from the Digibox into the Tivo doesn't look too impressive. Add to that the Tivo going through standard PAL into AV3 on the Telly.
What I would like to know is if I run the RGB Scart into the Aux on the Tivo, then run the Tv scart from the Tivo into the RGB Scart on the telly, Am I going to lose any signal quality from the Digibox and will I gain RGB output from the Tivo too (I think yes to the second question)

Cheers,

Nick


Edited to say that the AV signal through normal PAL is noticably worse from the VCR Scart into the Tivo than through the RGB.


[Edited by Mr Footlong - 6/6/2002 9:54:01 AM]

NeilT

forget the scart/rgb issues then...your main issue will be recording quality of the Tivo - ours is set to lowest quality and we get about 40 hrs storage and a little pixelation / artifacts on screen but we can live with that (25" TV).

You'll probably need to set your Tivo to Best quality which will only give you about 12hrs recording time which, believe me soon fills up!

Post your RGB/Scart question on the www.tivocommunity.com forum - lots of good people on there - bound to get a good techy answer!

Neil

Mr Footlong

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Nah, the 12hour recording is just fine for me

There are quite a few AV enthusiasts on here like me, so I will see what answers come in here before signing up with them.
Cheers for the info.

Nick

Diesel

You Tivo chaps might find this link interesting - it's cheat codes!!!!

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http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2869495,00.html

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ChrisB

http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stor...869495,00.html

Floyd

iTrader: (9)

Why can't you watch another channel while recording another? I can do this on my video, so what's different?

Oh, and is this an old run-out model?

F