Steel Shootin'
01-17-2003, 06:37 PM
I got TiVo a couple of weeks ago. Do any of you guys have it? I got it because I don't like missing stuff, especially football, when I'm out spearfishing on the weekend. I am surprised at how much I'm using it for now.
First, it's great to be able to pause programs. We use this feature at least a couple of times a night.
Second, it's great that once you pause, or record, you fastforward through the commercials.
Third, the recording is simple, and the menu system is very intuitive. You start to actually get the value of what you pay for cable, because you can record movies while your sleeping. Once a week I'll check the listings from 11:30PM to 8:00A.M. and record things I'd want to watch. I have about 8 movies now in my library ready for viewing. All digital, no tapes to worry about.
Another thing, it learns what you like. It does this one of two ways. First, you can rate what your watching by giving it one, two or three thumbs up (or down). It then "looks" for other things that it thinks you might like. It will never record over something you've programed, though. I thought this was "gimmicky" when I first read the mannual, but the damn thing has about a 90% success rate when it chooses something for me.
As to the question of funcionality, I have digital cable and I lose nothing in function. They accomplish this in that the TiVo box has a remote that operates the digital cable box.
One final thing. The remote is awesome. It operats my TV (unlike the cable box remote), and the TiVo box. Finally, one remote!
One downer: It wasn't cheap, and there is a continuing monthly payment (about $12 a month). The box calls TiVo every night for updates on future programing. Given that the product is delivering well more than I expected, I have found it to be worth it.
First, it's great to be able to pause programs. We use this feature at least a couple of times a night.
Second, it's great that once you pause, or record, you fastforward through the commercials.
Third, the recording is simple, and the menu system is very intuitive. You start to actually get the value of what you pay for cable, because you can record movies while your sleeping. Once a week I'll check the listings from 11:30PM to 8:00A.M. and record things I'd want to watch. I have about 8 movies now in my library ready for viewing. All digital, no tapes to worry about.
Another thing, it learns what you like. It does this one of two ways. First, you can rate what your watching by giving it one, two or three thumbs up (or down). It then "looks" for other things that it thinks you might like. It will never record over something you've programed, though. I thought this was "gimmicky" when I first read the mannual, but the damn thing has about a 90% success rate when it chooses something for me.
As to the question of funcionality, I have digital cable and I lose nothing in function. They accomplish this in that the TiVo box has a remote that operates the digital cable box.
One final thing. The remote is awesome. It operats my TV (unlike the cable box remote), and the TiVo box. Finally, one remote!
One downer: It wasn't cheap, and there is a continuing monthly payment (about $12 a month). The box calls TiVo every night for updates on future programing. Given that the product is delivering well more than I expected, I have found it to be worth it.