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[thunder1995]

:cool: I just hooked up my new Series 2 TIVO's and I'm not able to record and watch a program at the same time unless I go straight to the Television and when I do that I can only go up to channel 70 something. Because I'm doing this I can't get to channel 401 to watch HBO etc... When I was with DIRECTV I could record two channels at the same time. The problem I have now is that DIRECTV won't setup a dish because of too many trees. Does TIVO have a deal with any cable company that would allow you to do the same? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

thunder1995

[ZikZak]

Series 2 tivos can only record one program at a time.

[DickK]

Common question. Search here and you'll find a number of workarounds. The only completely effective solution is get a 2nd cable box and dedicate one to TiVo. Or record enough stuff that you never want to watch something live.

[jbenw07]

There is actually a way to record one show and watch another WITHOUT using a splitter. Simply disconnect the TiVo channel changer from TiVo and your digital box. Put TiVo on whatever channel you want to record and press record (your digital box and television will stay on the current channel because it is no longer passing the channel change to your digital box). Then change the channel on your digital box using your digital cable remote to the channel you want to watch. TiVo WILL record whatever channel IT is on and you can watch whatever channel your digital box is on. And YES, you can pause, rewind, etc. even though your TiVo thinks you are on another channel.

You will find yourself using 2 remotes, but it is WELL worth it. I have Time Warner digital cable. I am sure it will work with any digital box.

I stumbled upon this a few hours before I was ready to box up my Tivo and return it because it couldn't record one and watch another!!!

[hitbyatrain]

There is actually a way to record one show and watch another WITHOUT using a splitter. Simply disconnect the TiVo channel changer from TiVo and your digital box. Put TiVo on whatever channel you want to record and press record (your digital box and television will stay on the current channel because it is no longer passing the channel change to your digital box). Then change the channel on your digital box using your digital cable remote to the channel you want to watch. TiVo WILL record whatever channel IT is on and you can watch whatever channel your digital box is on. And YES, you can pause, rewind, etc. even though your TiVo thinks you are on another channel.

Huh? If you've hooked your TiVo up to control your cable box, and if TiVo is recording your cable box's output, then anytime you manually change your cable box (with your cable box remote) the channel WILL change on the TiVo. The only difference is that TiVo won't know it, causing the "program" you recorded to keep its original name, but also causing the TiVo to record every channel change you've done with the cable box remote.

Either I'm missing something huge here, or you need to go back and make sure TiVo recorded what you *think* it did.

*I'm editing this because I'm rereading your post and still can't figure out what you're getting at. Part of me thinks you're talking about splitting the signal, but the other part of me reads the part where you said you could do all this without splitting the signal. So I'm just confused. But I don't think you're doing what you think you're doing.

[ZikZak]

There is actually a way to record one show and watch another WITHOUT using a splitter. Simply disconnect the TiVo channel changer from TiVo and your digital box. Put TiVo on whatever channel you want to record and press record (your digital box and television will stay on the current channel because it is no longer passing the channel change to your digital box). Then change the channel on your digital box using your digital cable remote to the channel you want to watch. TiVo WILL record whatever channel IT is on and you can watch whatever channel your digital box is on. And YES, you can pause, rewind, etc. even though your TiVo thinks you are on another channel.

You will find yourself using 2 remotes, but it is WELL worth it. I have Time Warner digital cable. I am sure it will work with any digital box.

I stumbled upon this a few hours before I was ready to box up my Tivo and return it because it couldn't record one and watch another!!!

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