Resetting my TiVo

[rossmecham]

I have my TiVo connected to a home network. That has worked fine for the past 1 1/2 years. The television that I was using with my TiVo got fried by an electrical storm. My son thought that he was doing me a favor when he set up my TiVo so that I can schedule and download to my PC through TiVo Desktop. I can now transfer selected recordings from TiVo to my PC, play and watch them on my PC monitor, and delete them from PC disk storage.

Here is the problem: when TiVo was connected to a television, I often used the "don't delete until I say so" option. There are still more than a few of those taking up TiVo disk space. Since there is no longer a television involved in the setup at all, I can find no way to either: 1) delete those recordings from my TiVo or 2) just do a total reset (and if I did, would the guided setup feed through my PC monitor so I would know what to do?) This seemed like a good idea when he thought of it, and still seems very workable if I could just clear the TiVo disk now.

Bottom line question: is it possible to use TiVo through a PC and monitor without having a television involved in the setup at all?

[windracer]

So you basically never use your TiVo to watch Live TV, just play previously recorded shows on your PC?

There are a lot of things you won't be able to do just using a PC (unless you want to get into TiVo hacking), you need to use the remote and interact with the UI. It might be worth just picking up a cheap TV to use as a TiVo "monitor" so you can see what you're doing to schedule recordings, delete shows, set up Wish Lists, etc.

[bpurcell]

What if you got a TV card for your computer? Could you hook up your Tivo to the PC then?