How to use a U.S. TIVO in Mexico City?

[anlor]

I am moving to Mexico City in a few weeks and I have been using a Humax 800 with DVD burner for over 2 years.

My question is, does anybody know if I can still use it in Mexico?

I know TIVO has a deal with Cablevision but is there a way to program or get my TIVO to look for or recognise the Mexico programming. It shouldn´t be much harder that it pointing to a different IP address and downloading the appropiate guide.

[T1V0]

It shouldn´t be much harder that it pointing to a different IP address and downloading the appropiate guide.

it would have to be formatted for use in the tivo, and only tivo supplies guide info in that format. unfortunately, tivo doesn't provide guide data for any mexican programming.

[TolloNodre]

It shouldn´t be much harder that it pointing to a different IP address and downloading the appropiate guide.

Yep, like the general who said 'it shouldn't be hard to make tanks run on sand'...energy problem solved!

As T1V0 said, no such data, no such IP...

[anlor]

Actually the Mexico programming data does exist as TIVO has been available for almost a year offered by the Mexican cable company Cablevision (no relation to the U.S. company).
What I am trying to do is use my Humax instead of having to buy the plain vanilla S2 that is currently available in Mexico.

[TolloNodre]

Actually the Mexico programming data does exist as TIVO has been available for almost a year offered by the Mexican cable company Cablevision (no relation to the U.S. company).
What I am trying to do is use my Humax instead of having to buy the plain vanilla S2 that is currently available in Mexico.

Well then I'm guessing you're out of luck, I doubt Cablevision would tell you how to setup your US box to work in Mexico even if it could.

[scandia101]

I believe the Tivo service through Cablevision in Mexico City is only for their cable box with Tivo software and not for stand alone Tivos.

[classicsat]

There is nothing you can do that is on-topic here.

It would be up to The Mexico City TiVo partners to decide to allow/subscribe your TiVo on their system with their guide data, but if as said, they are using cable boxes with TiVo software, or TiVos with different TSNs, likely not.

You could find and feed you own guide data and feed it to the TiVo (subscribing to the US service to retain the subscription keys), but that is OT here.

Lastly, you could manually use it, but that is no better than any other HDD based DVD recorder really.

[jlb]

Is your concern regarding keeping use of the DVD burner functionality specifically or just to avoid buying/renting a new box?

If you just don't want to buy a new box, AND, you have a willing family member, you could always place the TiVo in a family member's house and buy a slingbox to get your programming.