LiveBlues said:
I find it amusing that after you go off on your rant, you then state that it hasn't happened yet.
Looks like I wandered into a flock of Tivo sheep. If the Tivo shepherd tells me I must allow them to change my channel whenever they want, I shall not be annoyed, I shall simply blend with the flock and bow down to the shepherd. As for finding my "rant" "amusing", if I were throwing rocks at you and missing, would you only get annoyed when one bounced off your sheepish head? You think this is not annoying in any way, Scroll down to the scenario about watching a movie.
mick66 said:
WTF?
Why spread such ignorance?
Are you the shepherd's pet or simply the best follower in the flock?
jmoak said:
"Those ARROGANT jerks" do not "lock up" your tv or anything.Only if your using your cable dvr to feed your tivo dvr. (which is kinda redundant, but each to his own)
And you must be the techno-sheep. I have four feeds going into my HDTV. One direct from each of the cable boxes and one from each cable box that goes through a Tivo first. The channels are controlled by the cable box and bypassing it leaves you in a channel house of mirrors. This setup allows me to watch and/or record programs in HD. The Tivos are the unnecessary part of the equation, but since one has lifetime subscription and the other costs a pittance of 6 bucks a month I keep them for some of the Tivo advantages. They are the slo-mo and better ability to search a recording as well as two week vs one week advance programming. I rarely watch anything with Tivo's inferior picture unless I want to look at something in slo-mo or I need to do a quick search
jmoak said:
"Those ARROGANT jerks" will ask you (by putting a message on your screen asking if it's ok to change the channel) before they change the channel on your TV. If you miss the warning, you can always change it back.
OK techno, picture this. I am sitting home at about 2AM and happen to see that a movie I want to watch is on the TNT HD channel and starts in a few minutes. OK, I make myself comfortable and begin watching the movie. Forty five minutes into the movie and during a commercial break, I decide to make myself a sandwich confident that when I get back I can simply rewind to where I was if the commercials had ended. I am not there when it asks if I want to change the channel, so it does. The cable box will just do as it was told because the Tivo sends the cable box the command to change as if it came from me.
I sit down glad to see the ads are still running but after a minute or so, I realize what has happened. Since the channels on the Tivo and the cable box have changed, there is no rewinding and the 45 minutes I spent watching the movie are for nothing.
Now lets look at the "agreement" that rules this flock.
12. Advertising and Promotions. The TiVo service is advertiser supported. The hard disk drive of your TiVo DVR contains reserved space in addition to the advertised recording capacity. TiVo reserves the right to send content (including advertising and promotional material) to such reserved portions of your TiVo DVR's hard disk drive as part of the TiVo service. In order to send such content, you agree that TiVo may tune your TiVo DVR to a particular channel at a particular time.
Did you all miss that word particular in the agreement?? It doesn't say at random times, it doesn't say whenever the Tivo shepherd decides to reach into your sheep pen and disrupt your viewing, it says "at a PARTICULAR time". Since Tivo sells ads at prices determined by the number of subscribers it doesn't matter at what time they send these things out and it doesn't matter if I actually watch them or not. Compare it to a magazine that also gets paid for ads based upon their number of readers. I might read the magazine, but it doesn't guarantee I will read your ad. That said, each subscriber should be able to log onto their account and in the Showcases section, enter a preferred time, a PARTICULAR time to send these ads.
