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inahaz
06-03-2008, 08:51 PM
I thought I'd share a feature Tivo has I wasn't aware of until tonight. We were watching a recorded show tonight and Tivo must have detected a tornado warning signal sent by the national weather service on a local station. It automatically switched us from the recorded program to the news.

Very slick..

--- ok wiseguys, I know someone is going to ask "why are you at your computer if there is a tornado warning!"... It's several counties away (our local news covers a large geographic area.)
dwit
06-03-2008, 09:03 PM
I'd rather enjoy my show uninterrupted than be bothered by some darn tornado warning, thank you very much!!

;)
inahaz
06-03-2008, 10:01 PM
Ha! Seeing the location (Atlanta) under your name made me chuckle... I have relatives there... you've had some bad weather of your own recently.
dwit
06-03-2008, 10:07 PM
Ha! Seeing the location (Atlanta) under your name made me chuckle... I have relatives there... you've had some bad weather of your own recently.

Funny. I sleep through them all. My relatives from thousands of miles away call asking if I'm ok. I ask them what are they talking about. They know more about it from the news than I do.

With a Tivo, who watches news? Guess that's the reason for the "intrusive" alerts.
steve614
06-04-2008, 12:41 AM
Similar discussion here.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=394269

Lots of people don't like the fact that it interrupts recordings.
If you don't want the Tivo to record the alerts, you have to put it in stand -by.
lrhorer
06-04-2008, 02:18 AM
I can't believe some of the obtuse replies in that thread.
wierdo
06-04-2008, 02:54 PM
I don't think Cox in Tulsa orders channel changes. They somehow manage to run a crawl on all channels. It's even HD on the HD channels.

The downside to this is, of course, that my recordings will have the crawl, and if I happened to be watching a recorded show, I wouldn't know about any tornado warning. Of course, that's why we have sirens. ;)
Adam1115
06-04-2008, 04:34 PM
...only if you use cablecards.
TexasGrillChef
06-04-2008, 05:50 PM
I wasn't going to say anything about the being on the computer while a tornado was in progress.

I have been myself... then again I have a laptop with wireless (AT&T) internet access, so I can be in the basement, Shelter & know whats going on!

TGC
sieglinde
06-04-2008, 06:06 PM
that is pretty bad. We get our stations from LA so some disaster can hit LA and we get our shows interupted? How weird is that? I live 165 miles away from LA so a huge disaster of epic porportions would have to hit LA to affect me. So short of a 250 Megaton nuclear blast or a Richter 10 earthquake (complete with super volcano) I would not be affected. :)

I would want a warning if I lived closer though so this is probably a good feature.
Adam1115
06-04-2008, 10:56 PM
Wait a second, I have no cablecards, how does the emergency alert system work without them?

Where are the alerts coming from?
wierdo
06-05-2008, 01:00 AM
that is pretty bad. We get our stations from LA so some disaster can hit LA and we get our shows interupted? How weird is that? I live 165 miles away from LA so a huge disaster of epic porportions would have to hit LA to affect me. So short of a 250 Megaton nuclear blast or a Richter 10 earthquake (complete with super volcano) I would not be affected. :)

I would want a warning if I lived closer though so this is probably a good feature.
If you have cablecards, it comes from your cable company's headend, not the local station you're watching. Of course, in Tulsa, if the cable company is running an EAS alert, every local station will have been blathering on for hours about how there could possibly be a tornado somewhere in the viewing area sometime in the next six hours.