Tivo in India

[rdevakumar]

Hi,

Whether TiVo (or any other DVRs) is available in India. If yes, please give me the details.

Also i would like to know, If i buy a TiVo in US, will that work in India (with the cable singnals in India and the power compatibility - 200 to 240 V)

regards
deva

[litzdog911]

No. US Tivos will not work in India. Totally different video formats (PAL in India, NTSC in US).

You might ask this question in the UK Tivo Forum here because the video formats are the same.

[richsadams]

Hi,

Whether TiVo (or any other DVRs) is available in India. If yes, please give me the details.

Also i would like to know, If i buy a TiVo in US, will that work in India (with the cable singnals in India and the power compatibility - 200 to 240 V)

regards
devaTiVo is not supported in India. India uses the PAL television broadcast standard; the U.S. uses NTSC. A U.S. S2, S3 or HD TiVo will not work in India.

However one option would be to use a multi-system (PAL/NTSC) VCR as the tuner to feed the NTSC signal output to an old Series 1 U.S. TiVo to make manual recordings. Old U.S. Series 1 TiVo's used auto-switch 110v 60HZ/220v 50HZ power supplies so all you would need is a new “figure 8” power cable or a mains plug adapter.

Another option would be to use an old UK TiVo (Thomson, etc.) which would have a PAL tuner and run on 220v, 50HZ electricity. (All you would need then is a mains plug converter.) But again, all of your recordings would have to be set up manually. You might be able to find one for sale (eBay UK?). More info on UK TiVo’s can be found on this forum (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14).

Rather than trying to deal with all of that you could do some research on Euro DVR’s such as the Inverto (http://www.inverto.tv/ProductsCategory.asp?CategoryID=31). Or you should be able to build a PC based PVR using a PAL tuner, etc. with parts you can pick up over the Internet or once you get there.