Well, what do you think? I just shelled out $430 (half from RM95's Girl) for it, but now am thinking I shouldn't have.
I don't have it...yet. I have a friend who has it who raves about it...he says it's well worth it. Was the $430 a flat fee?? what do you get for that?? do you have to pay anything more per month??
No, you still have to pay the monthly fee...but I have a friend who has yet to pay it, and he's had his for over a year now.
I had Replay about two years ago, I didn't keep it long because it was hard to get used to and it wasn't my own house yet (still lived at home). I bet I would really like it now. Replay has no monthly fees also. You can do all sorts of cool upgrades to those things, like a bigger hard drive to hold more TV.
I've had tivo since 5/2000. Love it. Fortunately it was $200 lifetime, then. It still works great. Seetivo It has great info on tivo.
It's awesome. We turned one of the main feature off, and still love it. When Tivo would determine that we liked something, it would continuously prompt us to change the channel. Since we have satellite, it would change what we were watching (digital cable would give you the same problem). So I shut that automatic record feature off (you can still manually review what shows Tivo recommends for you based on your likes). I also set the default record setting to 'best'. That's important since we have a big-screen and I could tell the difference in the quality. Other than that: 1. You don't have to search through tapes to find something to watch, you do it on screen; 2. The settings available to tape the shows are far superior that VHS recorders (e.g., if the show is pre-empted, it doesn't record it.); 3. The quality is far superior to VHS; 4. If you want to see something again (i.e. 'rewind'), you just do, anytime...we use that constantly; 5. When you get home at half-time, you can start watching the beginning of the game while the game is still being recorded (be sure to set it to record an extra 30 minutes after the game is supposed to be over or you'll miss OT!); 6. You can watch part of a show, then watch a different show, then return and resume from where stopped; 7. Zipping through commercials is easy.
Can you record something while watching something else? Drew, it's not, but RM95's Girl and I just joined a health club and we know that we'll always use the excuse of television to skip working out. "Oh, we can't go to the gym tonight, Friends is coming on". I know we could just use our VCRs, but it doesn't seem to work too well for us!
It rocks. It is a completely different experience watching sports on one. I went through the Texans pre-season games in around an hour, and still saw every play. Incidentally, the DirecTV TiVo's are a much better deal. Two tuners, initial outlay of ~$200, and a much smaller monthly fee ($5/mo, or FREE if you subscribe to the top-level package). If you want to see what the hardcore folks think, visit http://www.tivocommunity.com
I was kidding.... kinda When you record the show on TiVO can you record it to a VCR tape later. IE If I wanted to record Die Hard on TNT, could I record it on a VCR tape later? If thats the case, then I can see how it would be beneficial. Also, if it gets you out of that stuffy apartment then its not such a bad thing after all.....
Yes Drewdog. It has a 'vcr out' to record to tape, or whatever. I like to record my favorite shows to DVD, so I tape them on Tivo's 'best' setting, move them to DV tape then burn the DVD from that.
I believe that only regular cable or roof antenna will allow you to watch one channel will recording another. Tivo will accept multiple input sources, so you can use an antenna with your digital cable. The tivo channel guide can be set-up to show both the antenna and digi cable channels. Then you will be able to watch digital cable while taping on antenna, or watch antenna while recording on antenna or cable. ...or get a second digital cable box, but you need to see if they allow for 2 remote settings (they might not; DirecTV boxes do).
