Just got a new HD Tivo and I LOVE it.

[Shanezam203]

http://images25.fotki.com/v954/photos/2/260457/1126338/HD2-vi.jpg
Thanks EVERYONE for the suggestions and help. I had a Series 2 with Lifetime hooked up to my new DLP Samsung 42" HDTV and I could not stand the picture. :down:
I tried changing the recording to BEST, I adjusted the aspect ratio over 20 times, and the picture was not Sharp or Crisp to say the least.

SO I went to Circuit City with a $40 off coupon and I found the HD box for $258. So after using the coupon, I got it for $218 . I couldn't go another day with the poor picture or the Comcast DVR.

Thanks for everyone's help,
:cool: Shane

[TiVo Fool]

I guess Christmas came early!!!

:D

[cwoody222]

USA's not in HD, is it? Show us an HD picture! :)

[thomaslue]

Does anyone know if there is an HD Tivo in the works that includes a DVD Recorder (like the TOSHIBA RS-TX20?)

[ZeoTiVo]

Does anyone know if there is an HD Tivo in the works that includes a DVD Recorder (like the TOSHIBA RS-TX20?)
no one knows but it is highly doubtful we will see one anytime soon or TiVo would have mentioned it in some form.

there may be more long range plans to figure out what Hi Def format to go with

[d_anders]

there may be more long range plans to figure out what Hi Def format to go with

No doubt, my wish would be consumer electronic based HD DVD recorders would come with a standard eSata or other type of communication to enable PC or other device communication.

With all the DRM focus in the industry, who knows if a standard could come about....

So in the end, I would just like to have a TiVo Supported DVD Recorder that would hook up to either of the S3 boxes...

[Shanezam203]

Any idea when I will be able to network the Tivo Series 2 downstairs and the Tivo HD to access each others recorded programs?

Tivo said they are hoping for a software release that will enable that, and the external storage with the eSATA port.

Any eta?

[ZeoTiVo]

Any idea when I will be able to network the Tivo Series 2 downstairs and the Tivo HD to access each others recorded programs?

Tivo said they are hoping for a software release that will enable that, and the external storage with the eSATA port.

Any eta?

TiVo has said they have plans to get it out by the end of the year but have not updated their web site with that same info. So we have end of the year from various interviews.

[drew00001]

Wow!! Time to get a new dresser . . . . :)

[classicsat]

Does anyone know if there is an HD Tivo in the works that includes a DVD Recorder (like the TOSHIBA RS-TX20?)

I doubt there is one, anytime soon. If there were, it would be limited to what it can record anyhow. For and HD-DVD recorder, they may wait for them to become commodity parts. And HD-DVD player model is a bit more likely.

[d_anders]

Wow!! Time to get a new dresser . . . . :)

True, but the priorities are absolutely in line. Technology and life/living first, aesthetics 2nd.

Looks like an appt situation. Save, save, save, buy a house, live, paint, live, furnish, live, repaint, live, save, (buy a new house or renovate), live, repeat, repeat, repeat, die.

live = family, life, travel, community, experience, religion/spirituality/awareness, struggle, repeat some of the other, joy.

In between, update tech with life.

[wolflord11]

If you are going to post a picture, ATLEAST post a HD Picture :D

[Shanezam203]

Is there anyway with any Tivo to check the space you have available?

[aus1ander]

Is there anyway with any Tivo to check the space you have available?

No. But you can check how much space each program takes (along with percentages) by hitting "Enter" when viewing the general details of your recordings off the "Now Playing List" (ie, select a program off the NPL to bring up the screen that shows the program information and options, and hit "enter", scroll all the way down).

[pdhenry]

Roughly the size of your Recently Deleted folder (plus the Suggestions folder if you're cavalier about Suggestions) = the free space that can be taken up without losing any programs you may want to keep.

[ZeoTiVo]

Roughly the size of your Recently Deleted folder (plus the Suggestions folder if you're cavalier about Suggestions) = the free space that can be taken up without losing any programs you may want to keep.
that is after you use the device long enough to start filling up recently deleted or suggestions.

[Shanezam203]

that is after you use the device long enough to start filling up recently deleted or suggestions.
My Tivo Series 2 was Great with suggestions.

Even my new HD is starting to record good programs in the Suggestions folder.

Thanks guys,
Shane

[MickeS]

If you are going to post a picture, ATLEAST post a HD Picture :D
Or, at least a ZOOMED SD picture so the aspect ratio is correct. :D

Congratulations, glad you like it. :)

[stalemate]

Cool!

I'm not sure where to ask this so I'll put it here. How hard is it to talk Comcast into giving you cablecards? I will probably be getting comcast soon and would love to get one of these new HD tivos and I might want to get some digital programming and get some cablecards for the tivo.

Is it as easy as just going to comcast and saying "I need some cablecards for my Tivo please" or do I need to jump through some hoops?

I'm such a newbie.

[Shanezam203]

Cool!

Is it as easy as just going to comcast and saying "I need some cablecards for my Tivo please" or do I need to jump through some hoops?

I'm such a newbie.
Comcast is giving me 2 cable cards, but I believe both of them are an extra $1.50 a month total...

They are not self install they promised me, so I have to wait till Thursday for them to come out, August 8th.

[stalemate]

Comcast is giving me 2 cable cards, but I believe both of them are an extra $1.50 a month total...

They are not self install they promised me, so I have to wait till Thursday for them to come out, August 8th.Cool thanks. I also found the Official Comcast CableCard Thread! over in the TivoHD forum so I'm sure that will clear up a lot for me.

[Stanley Rohner]

My priority would have been to get an appropriate TV stand when I bought the $2K TV instead of sticking it on top of a dresser but I guess that's just me.

[wolflord11]

My priority would have been to get an appropriate TV stand when I bought the $2K TV instead of sticking it on top of a dresser but I guess that's just me.

Maybe the appropriate TV stand is next, along with a Decent Home theater System instead of the Old One on Top of the Second Dresser.

Something along the lines of a 5 Disc DVD Changer, AM/FM, maybe Sirius Radio.... atleast 5.1 Speakers.

Great HD TV, TivoHD, so great picture... now just work on the sound :D

[jstaso]

I couldn't go another day with the poor picture or the Comcast DVR.


What was it you didn't like about the Comcast DVR?

[Shanezam203]

My priority would have been to get an appropriate TV stand when I bought the $2K TV instead of sticking it on top of a dresser but I guess that's just me.
I'd like to get a stand for the TV, just haven't gotten around to it.
I did move the bedroom around and I have it ontop of a hutch now, so we'll see.

http://images27.fotki.com/v982/photos/2/260457/1126338/NewHDTV10-vi.jpg
:cool: Shane

[10_pearljam]

http://images25.fotki.com/v954/photos/2/260457/1126338/HD2-vi.jpg
Thanks EVERYONE for the suggestions and help. I had a Series 2 with Lifetime hooked up to my new DLP Samsung 42" HDTV and I could not stand the picture. :down:
I tried changing the recording to BEST, I adjusted the aspect ratio over 20 times, and the picture was not Sharp or Crisp to say the least.

SO I went to Circuit City with a $40 off coupon and I found the HD box for $258. So after using the coupon, I got it for $218 . I couldn't go another day with the poor picture or the Comcast DVR.

Thanks for everyone's help,
:cool: Shane

shane-

i am thinking of doing the samething here...did you just sign your HD box up for a new subscription or were you able to transfer the lifetime membership over...

also, any pixelation problems? i called comcast, they charge you $1.50 for the second card...first card is free...

thanks for the help.

-jv-

[Shanezam203]

shane-

i am thinking of doing the samething here...did you just sign your HD box up for a new subscription or were you able to transfer the lifetime membership over...

also, any pixelation problems?
JV, a little pixilation problems, but comcast came out and helped me eliminate some splitters, now I am getting 81% signal strength vs 40 :eek: So pixilation is minimal.

I kept the Lifetime Series 2, and put it on the big screen downstairs.

I am waiting for the Multi Room Viewing, :cool:

Shane

[10_pearljam]

thanks!!