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#27 Nov 07 2005 at 11:26 PM Rating: Decent

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gbaji wrote:

klyia wrote:

All your friend would have had to do is select "Standby" from the Tivo menu. When the Tivo is in standby mode it still records and you can flip channels on your TV all you want. Just like the TV/VCR switch on your VCR.

Yes. But just as with the TV/VCR thing, you are essentially choosing to view the raw cable feed instead of the cable box feed. The same problem arises. One of them wont descramble premium signals. So if I want to watch a film on HBO, while recording a StarGate episode on SciFi, I can't do it since both have to come through the box.

The cable tuner itself only sends out one channel past the decode point. While you *can* connect a TV or VCR directly to the cable feed, you'll only get basic cable channels on that. Tivo doesn't "fix" that problem...

Guess I'm lucky I don't have a service that requires me to have a cable box.

Every couple of years I try out digital cable and I always end up dropping it after a month or 2 just because I don't watch any of the digital channels. Last time I tried it I got caught up on all the Curb Your Enthusiasm reruns and then cancelled.

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#28 Nov 08 2005 at 9:33 AM Rating: Good

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Looks like TiVo may be around for a while - they just teamed up with Yahoo!:

TivO & Yahoo! Team Up

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Under a partnership announced Monday, the two will collaborate to offer Yahoo's Internet-based content and services through TiVo's digital video recording devices.

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#29 Nov 08 2005 at 11:51 AM Rating: Good

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klyia wrote:

Guess I'm lucky I don't have a service that requires me to have a cable box.

If you buy more then basic cable, you have to have the decoder box to get the channels. Maybe I'm a sucker, but I've got to have 15 channels of sports that I never watch, and 25 channels of old movies of every genre possible that I never watch, and 20 channels of random medical, health, education, and other boring topic shows that I rarely watch (roomate used to watch the surgery ones while I was eating though. Good times!), 30 channels of premium films and stuff, which I watch alot of.

So yeah. Basic cable is pretty much out for me. I remember when I was a kid and there were like 4 channels (and two of them didn't tune in very well). Maybe I'm compensating...

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Every couple of years I try out digital cable and I always end up dropping it after a month or 2 just because I don't watch any of the digital channels. Last time I tried it I got caught up on all the Curb Your Enthusiasm reruns and then cancelled.

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Gasp! How can anyone survive without digital cable? It's not the channels! It's the onscreen channel guide! Since I first got digital cable several years ago, I can't stand watching cable without it. Drives me nuts not to be able to see what's on the channel at any given time or browse through the listings when looking for something to watch. It's a channel surfers dream!

*must have... digital cable!*...

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