What to do

[movado]

I want dual tuning for my satelite on my tivo with the home media option and the tivotogo. Should I get a dual tuner tivo and just get two direct tv boxes? Will it work that way?

I would like dual tivo recording in two rooms and the ability to transfer programs back and forth between tivos in adition to storing them on my pc and to do this in the cheapest manner.

Any suggestions?

[ZeoTiVo]

if you want dual tuner directTV and the HMO features - you can not buy that and you can only control one sat receiver per TiVo even on the DT units. so Stand alones are not the way to go either.


what you need to do is go to the underground forum here and find the threads on Zipper. A formalized way to hack the DirectTV DVRs to do what you want. Have fun and do not be afraid.

[Dan203]

The ONLY way to record two DirecTV channels at once is a DirecTiVo. And unfortunately the only way to do things like HMO and TTG on a DirecTiVo is to hack it.

Dan

[shenette]

I am new to this hacking topic, so please be patient. I have had the DirecTV Receiver/Tivo box and I recently purchased the stand alone Series 2 box for additional TVs in my home in order to get the home networking features and all the other cool options. However, as the first reader posted, I have just found out that I can not use the dual tuner. The sales guy at the store told me that all I needed was a regular rabbit ear antenna in order to make it work. Which it does not. I am pretty good with computers, adding memory, changing hard drives, etc. However, I have never tried anything beyond that. This is my background, now on to my question.

You are saying that there is nothing that we can do in order to use the DT feature with regular DirecTV satellite boxes?
Also, no one still sells the DirecTV Tivo boxes. The only other option is that horrible, horrible copy cat of Tivo that DirecTV now sells. Did I mention that it is horrible? But I digress. Are you saying that if I buy that horrible DVR from DirecTV, I can hack it to become a Tivo box? I am so confused and totally upset that I can not use the DT feature. Please help.

[LostCluster]

You're forgetting he can record two DirecTV channels with two single tuner TiVos and two DirecTV boxes, sharing between the two with MRV.

[ZeoTiVo]

You are saying that there is nothing that we can do in order to use the DT feature with regular DirecTV satellite boxes? Afraid so - you can only control the DirectTV receiver on one of two tuners in the the standalone DT box
[/quote]Also, no one still sells the DirecTV Tivo boxes. The only other option is that horrible, horrible copy cat of Tivo that DirecTV now sells. Did I mention that it is horrible? But I digress. Are you saying that if I buy that horrible DVR from DirecTV, I can hack it to become a Tivo box? .[/QUOTE]

no - I am not saying you can use those new DirectTV DVRs. sorry I was not more specific but TiVo, there is no substitute ;)

go to the underground forum here or the directTV forum here. I imagine they can tell you where to find DirectTV TiVo DVRs now adays. Certainly Ebay usually has some.

[classicsat]

You are saying that there is nothing that we can do in order to use the DT feature with regular DirecTV satellite boxes?


The second tuner on the DT receiver is only works with analog cable, so no.

[gastrof]

...I have just found out that I can not use the dual tuner. The sales guy at the store told me that all I needed was a regular rabbit ear antenna in order to make it work. Which it does not.

The Dual Tuner TiVos weren't meant for Over The Air television. If the store's sales guy told you it was, he was wrong, and you may have to speak to his boss.

The only Over The Air channels it might be able to get are channels 2-13, because they're on the same frequency as the same channels on cable. As for UHF (OTA channel numbers above 13)...there may be some overlap with cable frequencies, but the channel numbers would be entirely different.

Also (and this is a major point), I don't think the Dual Tuner TiVo would give you the option of Over The Air (antenna) television when going thru Guided Setup.

...Are you saying that if I buy that horrible DVR from DirecTV, I can hack it to become a Tivo box? I am so confused and totally upset that I can not use the DT feature. Please help.

They were talking about DirecTivos, not the DVR that DirecTV now offers.

Any serious discussion of a non-TiVo DVR would be for another forum, hacking it included.

[shenette]

My intention was not to discuss the DirecTV ripoff of Tivo, I was only trying to clarify the comment as I understood it. Thanks, the answers have been quite clear this time.

[petew]

You are saying that there is nothing that we can do in order to use the DT feature with regular DirecTV satellite boxes?


If Basic cable is an option you can connect a regular Directv reciever to the Tivo DT and connect basic cable. Then Tivo will able to record 2 cable channles or 1 cable channel and 1 Sattelite channel at the same time.

[megazone]

Also, WeaKnees.com still sells DirecTiVos.