Need serious help.

[wolfskin75]

:mad: Well, I got fios from verizon and I am pretty ticked off. I am cannot find the right schematic to hook up my cable and tv to watch something on tv and record something different on the Tivo. It's a digital signal so Tivo said I needed a serial cable to turn the channels on the thing ( I don't understand that either. ) So, I need to know if anyone has a work around or link to the solutation to my problem. .


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[greg_burns]

Hi fellow Delawarian

What model Tivo do you have? And S3 or S2? Sounds like an S2 since Tivo mentioned using a serial cable (as opposed to IR blasters) to control your digital cable box.

Not a FIOS customer, so not sure I will be able to help much.

Here are pictures of the serial cable and IR cables. They should have came in the box with your Tivo.

https://www3.tivo.com/store/accessories.do#A00009

[RonDawg]

If FiOS has gone all-digital in your area, you will need a second box in order to tune a different channel than that on the box attached to the TiVo.

The other alternatives are to go back to analog cable (if still available in your area), use a separate digital OTA box connected to the TV (the built-in one will only work until February unless it is an ATSC tuner), get a DVR from FiOS which will have more than one tuner, or get a Series 3 model and get CableCard(s) from FiOS.