OMG we are actually caught up on TV!.....

[emandbri]

the only thing in tivo is kids shows! I honestly think this has happened only one other time!

What about others? How often do you get completly caught up? It is snowing so we are going to watch movies and play board games assuming we can get the kids to stop playing battlefront 2!


Emily

[innocentfreak]

Never. For me to get caught up it would take several weeks of only repeats on for that to happen. I am usually right on the edge of losing recordings so I couldn't imagine the amount of time it would take me.

[mike3775]

I have never gotten caught up. Every time I make a decent dent in my recordings, I lose it all the next day with more recordings

[7thton]

Right now I'm pretty close to being caught up. I only have about 4 or 5 hours to catch up on. Of course, Sopranos, Big Love, The Next Food Network Star, and Malcolm are on tonight....

I'm also making my way through SG:1 on DVD, have seasons 1 & 2 of Buffy sitting here, eps of Life on Mars on my computer, series 1 of Clocking Off, series 2 of Shameless, series 2 & 3 of Teachers...all on DVD.

Wow.

[Dmon4u]

I'm close !

I lost about 6 hours a week of shows because of cancellations this Winter and, lately, reruns have hammered me. It's rare that I can watch reruns of anything. Now, the loss of the 3 hour SciFi Fridays shows have hurt me again - though Dr. Who brings that down to 2.

[jimborst]

First, let me say that I DO NOT USE TIVO CORRECTLY. I usually watch what I've recorded that day the same night, yes there are times I don't get it done, but for the most part TiVo is pretty empty.

[KungFuCow]

Im caught up as well.. this has never happened before. Too many shows have run long sets of repeats :(

[tiellv]

I'm pretty caught up on my Moxi. On one of my TiVos I'm a couple of shows from being caught up. On my other TiVo (the one with 2 hard drives) I've got so many shows that I don't know how I'll ever get caught up! The TiVo with the 2 hard drives is located in the guest room so I don't spend as much time in there.

[spartanstew]

We're pretty close and might be caught up this evening.

Of course, that doesn't count almost the whole first season of House that I've been recording so that we can watch it this summer.

[EMoMoney]

OMG we are actually caught up on TV!.....


Emily
What else is there to do in Omaha? :D

[Dmon4u]

Cow Tipping !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tipping

[emandbri]

What else is there to do in Omaha? :D

Cow Tipping !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tipping

Not much! We are snowed in! I've never been cow tipping, I like animals and I'm not really from here!

Emily

[Dmon4u]

From my link, above:

"Finally, attempting to tip a cow is a patently dangerous activity. Despite the animal's reputation for being placid and slow-moving, a cow is easily capable of hurting someone when provoked or nervous; a herd of cows or a bull (easily mistaken for a cow in the dark) would be even more dangerous."

Be afraid, very afraid !

There's nothing worse than a Mad Cow !

[DevdogAZ]

It depends on what you mean by "caught up." We have several prime-time shows that we watch and we're close to being caught up on those, but we also have SPs for several other shows that we just record "in case" and sometimes they get watched and sometimes the next episode just records over it. Plus I've got a couple of shows that I can't record on TiVo due to conflicts so I download them and I'm saving them on the computer until summer.

[betts4]

Okay, newbie to tivo question time.

I am usually caught up on tv shows because we watch it that week - mostly the night before the new episode comes on. I do have quite a few movies now on my tivo memory and will be putting them on dvd.

Question is this, how do you record a whole season or such of a tv show without wanting to watch it? (as someone said they did for House)
And do you record it on the tivo and then let it sit there? How is that done without it being erased or it interfering with other recordings. I am asking because today when I was trying to extend the save till date on a couple of shows I got the message 'if I keep till -blank date- then it will not record this and that show'. How do you get around/past that?
I find this a frustrating pop up when I am trying to program for new movies or extend the life of something that is on there.

[DevdogAZ]

Okay, newbie to tivo question time.

I am usually caught up on tv shows because we watch it that week - mostly the night before the new episode comes on. I do have quite a few movies now on my tivo memory and will be putting them on dvd.

Question is this, how do you record a whole season or such of a tv show without wanting to watch it? (as someone said they did for House)
And do you record it on the tivo and then let it sit there? How is that done without it being erased or it interfering with other recordings. I am asking because today when I was trying to extend the save till date on a couple of shows I got the message 'if I keep till -blank date- then it will not record this and that show'. How do you get around/past that?
I find this a frustrating pop up when I am trying to program for new movies or extend the life of something that is on there.
Lots of people have added larger capacity hard drives to their TiVos and have tons of space to record stuff. My S1 has 180+ hours so I have tons of stuff saved on there. I've got about 50-60 episodes of New Yankee Workshop set as KUID because I'm too lazy to record them to a tape. I really wish TiVo had a batch play/save feature. My S2 has only 40 hours so I don't keep things on there very long, but I can move stuff from there to my computer and then back when I want to watch. I'm saving Veronica Mars for the summer and my wife is just now starting on the second season of Grey's Anatomy.

[rhuntington3]

Congratulations! I'm about two and a half weeks behind.

[trnsfrguy]

I was ALMOST caught up,but with the HBO free preview on this weekend, I'm behind again.

[TIVO_GUY_HERE]

was close about 2 months ago, but now I could watch 4 hours of recorded shows for about 3 weeks straight ( figured about 70 hours to watch)

[ButchKy]

I emptied out programs on all three Tivo's this afternoon. This is the first time I can ever remember all three being empty since I got my first one in 02'. Oh well plenty coming up this week to watch.

[spartanstew]

Question is this, how do you record a whole season or such of a tv show without wanting to watch it? (as someone said they did for House)
And do you record it on the tivo and then let it sit there? How is that done without it being erased or it interfering with other recordings. I am asking because today when I was trying to extend the save till date on a couple of shows I got the message 'if I keep till -blank date- then it will not record this and that show'. How do you get around/past that?
I find this a frustrating pop up when I am trying to program for new movies or extend the life of something that is on there.


As someone already mentioned, a lot of people have added larger hard drives. We have 225 hours on our main unit. House is one of the few shows I never watched, but wished I would have. When one of the channels started showing reruns of season #1 in order, I decided to record them. Hopefully they'll go to season #2 next and then I can watch them all this summer before season #3 and be caught up.

As far as the pop ups regarding "this show will be deleted on this date" and "if I keep until this date it will not record this". Those are only warnings that come into play if you record everything on your to do list and don't delete everything. In other words, let's say you have 20 hours of space and over the next 14 days you have 21 hours of shows schedules. If you pick to not delete something, it will probably tell you that it can't record the last show. Of course, as you record and watch, you'll be deleting some of those shows, so it usually won't come into play.

[Ntombi]

I'm never going to be caught up! It's actually overwhelming how many shows and movies are on there. I'm usually about a day away from unwillingly deleting something that's old. I have 2 and a half seasons of the West Wing on there (SP with KUID), because I got mad when Aaron Sorkin left and the writing went downhill. I know it gets better, so I'm recording all the way to the finale, and then I'll slog through the rest of the 2003/2004 season so I can get to the better stuff that everyone keeps assuring me is coming.

Also, I tend to let other shows build up so I can have mini-marathons. I just did that with Grey's Anatomy (watched four eps in a row, and now I'm anxiously awaiting tonight's), and I have several other shows to catch up on.

Even though I have a larger hard drive, I'm constantly losing and re-recording certain movies or shows that TiVo has deleted to make room to record on of my 80+ SPs. I don't usually have major heart attacks over it; the only KUID SP I have is WW.

I'm actually feeling pretty smug right now, because I actually have about 3 hours of TiVo recommended recordings, but those'll be gone by the end of the night. C'est la vie. Viva le TiVo! ;)

[thumperxr69]

I definitely have a sickness. It is like money burning a hole in my pocket. I don't ever *let* myself get behind unless I am (god forbid) away from my TiVo on vacation or on business. I have to watch everything that I TiVo within a day or 2 max. Sometimes that makes for very late nights. ;)

T

[ILoveCats&Tivo]

We are caught up as well. Basketball is causing a lot of my shows to be pre-empted for the next couple of weeks. :down:

[lambertman]

We are caught up as well. Basketball is causing a lot of my shows to be pre-empted for the next couple of weeks. :down:

There's a good chance they would have been in reruns anyway.

(I WAS caught up, but thanks to the HBO free preview weekend, not so much anymore.)

[Havana Brown]

Emily, I was thinking about posting this last week! :) I am NEVER caught up. Like others have said, once you think you're caught up, bam, there's more recordings. I usually get to the point where there are no more tivo suggestions and my recordings start dropping off. Yeah, I know, bigger hd right.

[pianoboy000]

we're usually at least a week or two behind on everything except American Idol. We usually don't get to AI until the weekend when there is nothing on TV on Sundays.

[tai-pan]

I was ALMOST caught up,but with the HBO free preview on this weekend, I'm behind again.
They sure are making it tough for tivo users to keep up on the schedule though :mad:

[allan]

It depends on what you mean by "caught up." We have several prime-time shows that we watch and we're close to being caught up on those, but we also have SPs for several other shows that we just record "in case" and sometimes they get watched and sometimes the next episode just records over it. Plus I've got a couple of shows that I can't record on TiVo due to conflicts so I download them and I'm saving them on the computer until summer.

Similar situation. I've always got SOMETHING on Tivo. However, if we get the 6 inches of snow the weatherman is talking about, and I have to stay home, I'll probably finish the good stuff and be down to the filler shows that I usually don't watch.

[jeff125va]

We're a lot closer than we were a year ago, but we definitely won't get caught up until after the season is over. Last year, we got caught up on everything in like mid-September, just before this season started. Actually, a few shows, like Prison Break, had started already. We got to watch almost nothing in HD because of space limitations - I only had room to keep the most recent 2-3 shows for each series, and we were only current on a handful of shows, Lost and 24 were about it, since we usually watched those the night they were on. We had 5-10 episodes of everything else on the SD DirecTiVo when the season ended in May, and we didn't get caught up to the ones we had in HD until about July or August.

Right now we usually stay within 1-3 episodes on everything, except for Scrubs and That '70s Show which we only record in SD.

[sieglinde]

I am 6 months behind meaning I do have shows from September to watch including Numb3rs and some other current shows.

My tastes are too eclectic for me not to find something on TV.

[marksman]

First, let me say that I DO NOT USE TIVO CORRECTLY. I usually watch what I've recorded that day the same night, yes there are times I don't get it done, but for the most part TiVo is pretty empty.

I get the impression that is how the typical person uses TiVo. I think those of us who horde tv and save 10s and 100s of hours to watch in the future are the exception. I suspect most people just have a few shows they tape and watch them right away.

[jennifer]

I was home today, and bored, so I cleared out my NP list. It was full of design and makeover shows. It was really easy to watch the first part and fast forward to the end. Same plot :)

I'll be out of town Wednesday thru Sunday evening, so it'll just fill right back up again.

[kwurst]

As of this past weekend, we are now one month behind on the XX Winter Olympics... :eek: