Comments on: Pre-birthday and Tivo http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/ Thoughts and observations from a quirky cartoonist and designer. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:06:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: About Shawn Hartley - sh2.com http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-11786 About Shawn Hartley - sh2.com Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:40:32 +0000 http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-11786 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] I must blame Kartooner, (friend of Max) on this one for planting the bug a couple weeks ago.The decision came down to the Tivo for the base unit price and monthly subscription and Cox's DVR service for an extra $13/month on my bill for hardware and service. After checking a couple sites filled with reviews, both positive and negative, I ended up going with Cox's service for the simple reason that setting up a Tivo without a landline is a royal pain in the ass. While hacks are available to by-pass the landline setup, they don't work reliably and my list of friends with landlines is slowly being diminished every time someone goes wireless only; never mind the fact that I'd probably be looking at hijacking their phone line for a few hours.Bottom line, I came home from work and had the unit up and running in 10 minutes. Granted, I'm not a card-carrying member of cult Tivo, but one has to wonder how much longer Tivo can stand on its own facing the threat of the non-technical, plug-and-play masses having easy access from their cable company.The model on my unit is a Motorola DCT6400, let the hacking begin. -------- [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] I must blame Kartooner, (friend of Max) on this one for planting the bug a couple weeks ago.The decision came down to the Tivo for the base unit price and monthly subscription and Cox’s DVR service for an extra $13/month on my bill for hardware and service. After checking a couple sites filled with reviews, both positive and negative, I ended up going with Cox’s service for the simple reason that setting up a Tivo without a landline is a royal pain in the ass. While hacks are available to by-pass the landline setup, they don’t work reliably and my list of friends with landlines is slowly being diminished every time someone goes wireless only; never mind the fact that I’d probably be looking at hijacking their phone line for a few hours.Bottom line, I came home from work and had the unit up and running in 10 minutes. Granted, I’m not a card-carrying member of cult Tivo, but one has to wonder how much longer Tivo can stand on its own facing the threat of the non-technical, plug-and-play masses having easy access from their cable company.The model on my unit is a Motorola DCT6400, let the hacking begin. ——– [...]

]]> By: Linda http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-1041 Linda Wed, 06 Oct 2004 23:08:24 +0000 http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-1041 Trust me, you're going to LOVE it! TiVo was the best birthday gift I ever received. I don't know how to watch regular tv anymore (I'm pondering why I can't utilize the hotel's broadband to connect to my machine at home when I travel and watch my selected programming... maybe it's to come soon). I just can't wait until the TiVo NetFlix partnership is final... Trust me, you’re going to LOVE it! TiVo was the best birthday gift I ever received. I don’t know how to watch regular tv anymore (I’m pondering why I can’t utilize the hotel’s broadband to connect to my machine at home when I travel and watch my selected programming… maybe it’s to come soon). I just can’t wait until the TiVo NetFlix partnership is final…

]]> By: max http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-976 max Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:50:44 +0000 http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-976 The techie-freak in me wants to get a TiVo, but the pratical side of me tells me to knock that crap off. I want one, but I don't watch that much TV. Everyone tells me you end up watching more TV than you previously did with it, and I could definitely see myself eating up my weekends with beer and whole seasons of cartoons off of Adult Swim. That could be bad. The geekside will be interested to hear of your experiences, though, so as to convince the practical voice to buy one anyway. :) The techie-freak in me wants to get a TiVo, but the pratical side of me tells me to knock that crap off. I want one, but I don’t watch that much TV. Everyone tells me you end up watching more TV than you previously did with it, and I could definitely see myself eating up my weekends with beer and whole seasons of cartoons off of Adult Swim.

That could be bad.

The geekside will be interested to hear of your experiences, though, so as to convince the practical voice to buy one anyway. :)

]]> By: Dad http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-972 Dad Wed, 29 Sep 2004 03:10:50 +0000 http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-972 Pre-birthday? Man, some guys just never grow up, but good for you Erik, you were a great son to raise and we had many happy birthdays together. So, happy pre-birthday and be safe and happy. Love, Dad Pre-birthday? Man, some guys just never grow up, but good for you Erik, you were a great son to raise and we had many happy birthdays together. So, happy pre-birthday and be safe and happy.
Love,
Dad

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