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New Toy Notes
Yeah, still excited about the DVR. We had a brief moment (about 2 minutes) of panic on Friday night when the box switched off after Friday Night Lights instead of staying on for SGA. We just sort of stared at it and were sad that the one show we tape on a regular basis was not going to be recorded and there was nothing we could do, it being Friday night and all.
And then, at 10:02, the box switched on and all was happy again.
It's...different. There's no rewinding and guessing when a show starts when we play it back. The picture quality is so much better (which we should have expected, given the change in medium, of course). Erasing is simple. Nothing is intuitive - Cablevision doesn't do intuitive - but nothing is hard to figure out, either.
But the biggest advantage is the live tv controls. Jonathan is watching Wargames, and there's a half hour left, but we want to eat lunch. Not a problem. PAUSE the program. Eat lunch. Watch the rest. Or there's the show in progress thing - show I want comes on, but I'm eating dinner. If I tape the show so I don't miss anything, I end up either waiting for it to end so I can watch from the beginning *or* watching the second half before the first. Both are annoying. I could just rewind to the beginning of the episode and watch, and fast forward over commercials, too, until I caught up. It's just so *cool*. Thursday, I'm going to try the taping two shows at once thing.
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A few things to watch for:
1. How long will it live pause? I think I only get an hour or two, so in certain situations it's better to just hit record for the program, the fastest fast forward takes my Time Warner box 30 seconds to get through an hour.
2. Record two shows at once and see if you can PLAY a third, this took me months to figure out and it's actually a nice feature.
3. Just watch that recording space.
4. My version does this weird thing with ranking shows that I'm STILL figuring out, so if you end up with a complex evening, check how that works and double check it's recording your preferenced shows.
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If I can tape two shows and watch a third, that will make my Thursday nights so, so, SO sweet.
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Of course, our other set doesn't have the DVR, so we will see.
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You can do better than that. TiVo has a 30-second skip button. Just click it 5 times when the pod begins - pods are rarely shorter than 2:30. Then skip 30 secs at a time until the show has begun, and then click the 8-seconds-back button until you're where you want to be.
Only catch: the 30-second-skip function has to be enabled. While you are playing a show, press the following six-button sequence: <select> <play> <select> 3 0 <select>. You will hear a ding-ding-ding response that means the function has been enabled. Every time the set reboots, you will have to re-enable it.
The only drawback is when the shows change their times slightly and the TiVo doesn't realize it because it didn't get an update in time,
It gets worse than that. A show can move completely and they don't bother telling whoever TiVo gets its information from. Last week Time Warner changed their entire channel lineup, and USA moved from channel 40 to 16. TiVo didn't find out about this until a day after the change had happened, so I missed House and Criminal Intent.