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. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:53:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: About Shawn Hartley - sh2.com http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-972 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-972 <!--%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-971 Linda Wed, 06 Oct 2004 23:08:24 +0000 http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-971 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-970 max Wed, 29 Sep 2004 14:50:44 +0000 http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-970 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-969 Dad Wed, 29 Sep 2004 03:10:50 +0000 http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-969 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

]]> By: kartooner http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-968 kartooner Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:36:05 +0000 http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-968 <strong>Colin</strong>: Thanks for the heads up. Too bad we won't have the time to do the exchange as I would have much rather spent $50 than $150, but you live and learn. <strong>Mike</strong>: We figured that we don't spend a great deal of time in front of the television, however, when we do we'd like to only watch specific shows. Dealing with network lineups can be a pain and without a DVR it means you have to sift through all the muck. With Tivo, it's easy to set up the unit to record a season's worth of a show not to mention it's a breeze to skip through the commercials and pausing live television is just awesome. <strong>Donnie</strong>: Thanks man. It's become a tradition for my family to get me gifts for my pre-birthday. <strong>Beto</strong>: As noted above, we aren't TV junkies, we just want to watch TV in its purest form. ;) Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. Colin: Thanks for the heads up. Too bad we won’t have the time to do the exchange as I would have much rather spent $50 than $150, but you live and learn.

Mike: We figured that we don’t spend a great deal of time in front of the television, however, when we do we’d like to only watch specific shows. Dealing with network lineups can be a pain and without a DVR it means you have to sift through all the muck. With Tivo, it’s easy to set up the unit to record a season’s worth of a show not to mention it’s a breeze to skip through the commercials and pausing live television is just awesome.

Donnie: Thanks man. It’s become a tradition for my family to get me gifts for my pre-birthday.

Beto: As noted above, we aren’t TV junkies, we just want to watch TV in its purest form. ;) Thanks for the link, I’ll check it out.

]]> By: beto http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-967 beto Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:07:35 +0000 http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-967 Good for you! As the Tivo goes though, I've never seen the need for one with my less-than-meager TV watching habits. Or maybe I could watch more with it, who knows (provided it comes with a time-extending feature or something). In any case, I guess you can now geet a kick of the biggest TiVo junkie I know online (Matt Haughey) who even runs something called <a href="http://www.pvrblog.com/" rel="nofollow">PVRblog</a>. And it seems to be pretty popular. Good for you! As the Tivo goes though, I’ve never seen the need for one with my less-than-meager TV watching habits. Or maybe I could watch more with it, who knows (provided it comes with a time-extending feature or something).

In any case, I guess you can now geet a kick of the biggest TiVo junkie I know online (Matt Haughey) who even runs something called PVRblog. And it seems to be pretty popular.

]]> By: Donnie Jeter http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-966 Donnie Jeter Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:38:48 +0000 http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-966 Happy pre-birthday. Happy pre-birthday.

]]> By: Mike http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-965 Mike Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:37:25 +0000 http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-965 I have wanted to get a DVR for a while now, especially with new season of Survivor and The Apprentice. This Tivo for $50 deal (after rebate) does look quite nice. I would definitely work on hacking it so I could extract video to my PC, and/or add a larger drive. Does anyone have any recommendations as to a site or book that discusses that accurately, so as not to destroy the system? I have wanted to get a DVR for a while now, especially with new season of Survivor and The Apprentice. This Tivo for $50 deal (after rebate) does look quite nice.

I would definitely work on hacking it so I could extract video to my PC, and/or add a larger drive. Does anyone have any recommendations as to a site or book that discusses that accurately, so as not to destroy the system?

]]> By: Colin D. Devroe http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-964 Colin D. Devroe Tue, 28 Sep 2004 02:57:40 +0000 http://www.kartooner.com/archives/2004/09/27/prebithday-and-tivo/#comment-964 Return it, go to Circuit City where you can get an instant $100 and an additional $100 MAIL-IN rebate. $50 bucks for a Tivo! You gotta get it before Sept. 30th though. Return it, go to Circuit City where you can get an instant $100 and an additional $100 MAIL-IN rebate. $50 bucks for a Tivo! You gotta get it before Sept. 30th though.

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