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Discussion in 'TiVo Help Center' started by Royal2000H, Jul 20, 2007.

  1. Jul 20, 2007 #1 of 5
    Royal2000H

    Royal2000H New Member

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    Hey there.
    I just bought a 180-hr Series 2 DT.
    This is my first Tivo.

    I get basic cable at home with all the normal channels I need.
    I also get one International channel on Dish Network.

    In the welcome setup I managed to easily configure the cable however I can't do dish network.
    Again I only need one channel so I don't need to use the IR blasters... it keeps asking me if it successfully changed channels so I just said yes or otherwise I can't move forward.

    Will the tivo ever try to tune to a different channel by itself on the dish (it can't cuz the ir blasters aren't hooked up)?
    I know it gets all the movie trailers or whatnot from a certain channel but will it get it from cable or from dish?
     
  2. Jul 20, 2007 #2 of 5
    JimSpence

    JimSpence Just hangin'

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    Does it recognize the channel from the Dish receiver?

    What I would do is remove all Dish channels, except the one, from the channels you receive list.

    Depending on the Dish model, you might have a problem with the receiver going into screensaver mode so you end up recording an hour of the bouncing logo.
     
  3. Jul 20, 2007 #3 of 5
    Royal2000H

    Royal2000H New Member

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    Hey

    Yea I did that too... so I hope I'll be fine.

    I also made that channel a favorite.

    Also the receiver has 2 outputs (1 tuner only) and one goes to another tv upstairs... so we already did set screen saver off.

    However I want to record channels and it says it's still getting program info for the past hour (or more)
     
  4. Jul 20, 2007 #4 of 5
    gastrof

    gastrof Hubcaps r in fashion

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    Potato and pen.
    It can take quite a while for the TiVo to organize when first setting up.

    Did you read your instruction book?
     
  5. Jul 21, 2007 #5 of 5
    Royal2000H

    Royal2000H New Member

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    after manually updating it twice I was able to get all the programming :)

    I still need to add home media features and actually activate the tivo.

    thanks for your help
     

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