Is TiVo still the best option?

[Dial_tone]

for recording tv? Anyone use anything else? I'd get a cheap Tivo and hack a bigger disk into it. I could build a PC to do it but it'd be much more costly.

 

[eat big]

DV-R is better from what I've heard.

 

[Delinquent]

Your cable company doesn't offer one? Brighthouse aka Time Warner has one that only costs me $6/month with no deposit at all

Edit: yea it's a DVR not the tivo brand

 

[Dial_tone]

Cox’s DVR service is available to customers for $4.95 per month, plus the lease price for the integrated digital receiver with DVR functionality, $9.95 per month....bump that noise.

TiVo with lifetime would be cheaper than that.

 

[eat big]

Cox’s DVR service is available to customers for $4.95 per month, plus the lease price for the integrated digital receiver with DVR functionality, $9.95 per month....bump that noise.

TiVo with lifetime would be cheaper than that.

The cool thing about the DV-R is you can store it on separate disks and record all of your shows on their own disk. Can you do that with TiVo?

 

[Dial_tone]

The cool thing about the DV-R is you can store it on separate disks and record all of your shows on their own disk. Can you do that with TiVo?

The Cox service uses a hard disk just like TiVo. You're thinking of DVR's that will burn to a DVD. I am not necessarily talking about that, although I could build that into a PC DVR easily.

 

[eat big]

The Cox service uses a hard disk just like TiVo. You're thinking of DVR's that will burn to a DVD. I am not necessarily talking about that, although I could build that into a PC DVR easily.

Yeah my friend has that and it's amazing. He'll burn all of his shows to their own DVD and he will have them forever to keep. Then he'll get cases at the store for the DVD's to be kept in.

 

[Lestat]

I use the DVR box that my cable company provides.

 

[bee down]

Cox’s DVR service is available to customers for $4.95 per month, plus the lease price for the integrated digital receiver with DVR functionality, $9.95 per month....bump that noise.

TiVo with lifetime would be cheaper than that.

Lets do the numbers. for that service for a year would be 178.80. Now you are leasing a box, this is good. Storms, power strikes anything fries that box, and a tech comes out and replaces it for free, no worries no hassle.

Tivo, you have to buy the box (going on prices last year) smallest unit was around 200, plus 300 for lifetime service. that's 500 dollars. thats about 2 and 1/2 worry free years of getting dvr service from your cable company. In 2 and 1/2 years wouldnt you imagine there being something out there that will make the current day tivo boxes obsolete? I do. Problem with your tivo box? good luck. Plus tivo uses the telephone line to update information, slow and obsolete (may be old information if this is incorrect please advise). With DVR, the company sends any firmware/program updates unnoticed.

Yes, i work for the cable company, i have dvr. My mom has tivo. Tivo was the first so many will think it's the best. It's not.

Would like to add this. You wont be able to hack our dvr boxes. Disabled output ports (firewire, usb, etc) due to copyrights, if this is very important to you. Tivo would be easier to hack.

Don't have time to proofread, so excuse the grammar, i just wanted to throw out some info.

 

[Dial_tone]

Lets do the numbers. for that service for a year would be 178.80. Now you are leasing a box, this is good. Storms, power strikes anything fries that box, and a tech comes out and replaces it for free, no worries no hassle.

I live in Los Angeles...not too many storms here.

Tivo, you have to buy the box (going on prices last year) smallest unit was around 200, plus 300 for lifetime service. that's 500 dollars. thats about 2 and 1/2 worry free years of getting dvr service from your cable company. In 2 and 1/2 years wouldnt you imagine there being something out there that will make the current day tivo boxes obsolete? I do.

Took longer than that for VHS and DVD players to be rendered obsolete. I imagine there will be something better by then but I will "need" it? probably not. At this rate we'll probably have the bandwidth to be watching movies over the internet in 5 years.

Problem with your tivo box? good luck. Plus tivo uses the telephone line to update information, slow and obsolete (may be old information if this is incorrect please advise). With DVR, the company sends any firmware/program updates unnoticed.

TiVo only requires a phoneline during setup. After that you can use ethernet or WLAN.

Would like to add this. You wont be able to hack our dvr boxes. Disabled output ports (firewire, usb, etc) due to copyrights, if this is very important to you. Tivo would be easier to hack.

Another reason to buy TiVo.

 

[newbiebynature]

The cool thing about the DV-R is you can store it on separate disks and record all of your shows on their own disk. Can you do that with TiVo?

you can do that really? i thought it only stored like 30 hours and when the 30 was up you had to start deleting shit...can you tell me how u do this? i have brighthouse networks

 

[Dial_tone]

you can do that really? i thought it only stored like 30 hours and when the 30 was up you had to start deleting shit...can you tell me how u do this? i have brighthouse networks

He is talking about the units that have a DVD-R built into them so you can burn to a DVD.

 

[Cuthbert]

Go with TiVo. You can hook it up to your network, transfer files to your computer, and burn them on DVD that way. You can also find a unit for $100 I believe.

Also, you can do the initial setup through a LAN. You don't need a modem/telephone connection at all.

 

[Lao Tzu]

DVR is cheaper, but at the end of the day it is only about $8/month difference.

My series 2 Tivo does not have a dual tuner. I don't know about the series 3 models, or your DVR but that could be important to you.

You can arguably get them free if you can get the rebates to come in

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?&ref=cj&pfp=cj&product_code=313608

However TiVo rebates are not reliable. I bought a series 2 for $200 with a $100 MIR and never got it. Most people didn't. But if you did buying something like that and putting a 300 GB HD in it would be pretty nice.

 

[bee down]

I live in Los Angeles...not too many storms here.


Took longer than that for VHS and DVD players to be rendered obsolete. I imagine there will be something better by then but I will "need" it? probably not. At this rate we'll probably have the bandwidth to be watching movies over the internet in 5 years.


TiVo only requires a phoneline during setup. After that you can use ethernet or WLAN.


Another reason to buy TiVo.

Just wanted to give you as much info as possible. Only you know what's best for you.

 

[Razorguns]

i got dvr and LOVE it