I'm confused about having two of each channel on my new Tivo

[TheAlchemist]

Hopefully this isn't a question that is asked often. If so, I apologize. I did a search, but didn't find what I was looking for. Anyway, we finally got our Tivo hooked up through our cable box. We have the one side of the splitter going to the box, and the other going directly from the wall to the Tivo. All is well. When we look at the "check the channels you recieve" page, it only checked the box (or maybe it was cable....but it was definitely only ONE) channel for the duplicate channels. For example, CBS comes through the box and through cable, so its on the list twice, but is only checked once. We found that if we left it unchecked, we were unable to select that channel from the guide (or from just switching channels). This wasn't a big deal, but we realized that if we were recording from the box tuner, we wouldn't be able to get to the cable channels (as they aren't listed in the guide, if unchecked).

Now we have BOTH channels checked (selected) so that BOTH show up in the guide. This is sort of annoying. The Tivo manual tells us to de-select one of them. Which do we de-select? If we de-select it, will Tivo still use that tuner for recording if the box is busy?

I have a feeling I'm not completely understanding what the Tivo is doing. Its like an excersise in logic. I just want it to be set up appropriately, so that both tuners work and hopefully, that we don't have to scroll through twice as many channels in the guide.

Does any of this make sense? Thanks in advance!

[gastrof]

Start out by telling us what type of TiVo you have, please.

Please also clarify how you have things connected.

At one point you say the TiVo is connected thru the cable box. At another point you say the raw cable is going to a splitter, where it then feeds your cable box, but also goes into your TiVo.

You also say that what's going into the TiVo comes "directly from the wall", but you include mention of a splitter.

We really need more info here, including some clarification.

[JorSha00]

I'm assuming this is a Dual Tuner TiVo box. You are going to have two different sets of channels because your TiVo is receiving one set from the cable box and one directly from the cable line (basic cable)...probably two completely different line-ups. I would suggest unchecking some boxes in the channel list and seeing what happens with your recordings. I haven't tried this with my TiVo because I don't have a problem with double channels in my guide...I rarely use it anyways. Maybe someone else can help you with this.

If that doesn't work or you just don't want to hassle with it, you could always make a "Favorites List" and only mark one of each channel as a favorite then select the guide option to only display your favorite channels. This way your shows should still record, but you only have to scroll thru one set of channels in the guide.

Also, the channel up/down button will quickly jump thru pages in the guide so you don't have to scroll thru each individual channel.

Hope you find something that works for you! :)