Do You TiVo?
 

I see that it's "on sale". Does anyone own one?

Not me
 

I don't own one, but my sister does. She uses it to record all of the episodes of Dora the Explorer and Blues Clues for my daughter. She loves her TiVo.

I would love, love, love a tivo. But my current salary cannot afford it. My girlfriend has one and loves it.

I had major 'tude when my husband came home with a new DirecTV/Tivo box. I thought it was another unnecessary electronic expense. I had to eat major crow however because Tivo is the best thing since sliced bread! You can search by title ("Wonder if Sparkle is coming on?), by actor or actress or by theme (i.e. for my husband, anything related to the Cincinnati Bengals) and have it record the shows. You can do a "season pass" and record all of the episodes of a show. I hardly ever recorded shows with a regular VCR, but I do it all the time with my TiVO. We are actually thinking about getting another one because I hold the main TV in the faimly room hostage sometimes catching up on my shows!

*hijack*
...Mr.Eclipse is clearly a visionary leader, who, while hated on initially, has provided entertainment leadership for yalls' house :D

Eclipse, your sentence for 1st degree hatoration? ...more Bengals gear. :cool:

*end hijack*

I had one, and I loved it! No more missing shows, no more hunting for blank video tapes! I hate that the only way you can get a TiVo like system in Canada is to have satellite TV. :mad:

I don't have TiVo, but I have a DVR (Digital Video Recorder). I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!!! It's offered thought my cable company (Time Warner) and it's only $7.00/per month!!! :D One time it broke and I felt just like Miranda from SATC.

i want one so bad! my parents have one and love it! i love playing with it when i go visit. i've been working on losing weight for awhile now, and my parents and i decided that when i hit my goal weight, i get to buy one and they will give me money towards it! so excited! i have about 15-20 pounds to go!

How long are the 'notes' for the DVR (dats what I really want)?

What are the notes? Are you referring to how much it can record?

lol. lmao. How long do you have to pay $7.00/month? Im trying to figure if it's cost effective to pay the cable company per month as opposed to buying one for $300 or so. Ya know?

(lmao@ myself. I had so much on my mind...I didn't finish my thought. LOL @ myself)

It might be more cost effective to pay the $300. Our service is $7.00 per month because we got one when it first came out. I believe now our cable company charges $10.00 per month.

LOL! visionary?!?! :rolleyes:

I had to cut that Bengals mess out with a quickness. We were getting every little show on the Ohio version of Fox Sports and even some nature shows when he put "Bengals" as a requirement. That's why we need a new TiVo. I have co-opped the main one and now he can't record his shows without discussing it with me first. One of my shows dropped off one time before I got to watch it because of some Bengals mess. It ain't even football season!! :cool: :D

I have a Replay TV (very much like TiVo) and I LOVE IT.
I reacted the same was as Eclipse... I couldn't understand what possible use this would be, but I'm converted. We rarely watch anything when it's on anymore, and it's so nice to skip all the commercials. Plus, we can save important episodes of shows so that we can say "But didn't Character X say the exact opposite 2 episodes ago?"

Now FH wants to buy one for the bedroom, so that we can go to bed halfway through a show and finish it in the bedroom, but he hasn't sold me on that idea quite yet. I'm afraid we'll never leave bed on the weekends (not that that would be Soooo horrible ;) )

I was so mad when Oprah gave away Tivo on one of her favorite things episodes. I want one so bad! I've got all of my friends wanting one to. I hope in the next few years the price will go down like every new thing so that I can get it. Right now it's not in my budget:(

Thank you Ginger! I forgot about this very important feature. I NEVER watch American Idol live anymore--expecially the results show. There is about 10 minutes of worthwhile information on this show. I just speed through the rest of it!

Have it but still trying to figure out how to work everything. I can rewind and fast forward.:D My hubby just laughs @ me. I'll get the hang of it soon.

I have TIVO and I LUV TIVO:D We have Directv/Dual something TIVO where it can record up two shows at the same time and I put the baby into to overdrive on somedays......I like the pause feature and rewind....and the fastward through commercials feature....did I say I am IN LOVE with TIVO.

Dayum! 2 shows simultaneously? :eek:

I can dig it!

Yeah, the directv TIVO is the only TIVO that comes with dual recorders:D ( I'm no expert but since Reading is Fundamental I took a visit over to www.tivo.com.:o )

We're getting the EOD (something like TiVo) added through our cable company for 3.95/ month.

ttt

Courtesy of the Atlanta Journal Constituation for those still on the TiVo fence. I've cut and paste the most important stuff, but you can get the entire article by clicking on the link below. TonyB, you will be happy to know it looks like we will get a 2nd one now since football season is right around the corner! LOL


TiVo has changed the way people watch television and added a new word to the vernacular.

To address the challenges, TiVo is poised to make major changes in its strategic, marketing and advertising plans. They include introducing a redesigned TiVo box and lowering its price by $50, to $99, by doubling a rebate offer; selling TiVo at more retail chains and Web sites like Costco, Sam's Club and Target.com; starting a loyalty program, to give incentives to current TiVo customers to recruit newcomers; and even teaming with a bank to offer a TiVo Platinum MasterCard.

These efforts will be promoted in a quirky ad campaign, with a budget estimated at $15 million, that is scheduled to start this week. In the ads, the previous TiVo slogan, "TiVo is TV your way," is replaced by an affirmation: "You have a life. TiVo gets it."

Like Gillette slashing prices on razors to make its profits in blades, TiVo will make up the difference in monthly subscription fees. Customers pay $12.99 a month -- or $299 for a "lifetime" subscription -- for services like a two-week program guide they can download through a phone line or broadband connection.
By contrast, most cable and satellite providers charge less than $10, although there are sometimes additional charges for upgrades to digital cable, for example. EchoStar rents machines to subscribers for $5 a month and charges $4.98 a month (a penny less than DirecTV) for access to the program-guide software. That means many viewers can get 60 TV channels and a DVR for as little as $35 a month. And by using cable wall jacks, subscribers can watch shows recorded on their DVRs on TV sets in other rooms of their homes at no extra cost

Read the rest here...

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/...04/09tivo.html

I don't know anything about the loyality program, but if anybody wants to help a sista out I will "recruit" you! :D

This year I won't miss another episode of the Apprentice, ANTM, Survivor, BB5, CSI, Airplane, or Family Plots because I have a DVR. I've had it since the summer and I LOVE IT too!! I was thinking about getting TiVo but the DVR seemed like a better deal at the time.

I don't Tivo, but I have On Demand through my cable company which is basically like Tivo except you don't have to record anything. The program that you missed is ready for viewing the day after it originally airs, and you can pause, and fastforward, stop and rewind just like Tivo.

I'm setting it up as we speak. Until I get frustrated and call my friends at the local Circuit City (for whatever reason I always call them for tech issues even though I never BUY anything there :))

Does anyone know if DISH is compatiable with TiVo?