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Summary: You don't have one of these yet?
Review: Then you need to get a life.
Before TiVo we would miss a show, the VCR would screw things up or the power would go out.
We stopped watching 24 because the VCR was not able to keep up.
If we had TiVo we still would be watching it.
TiVo makes TV watchable...
Season passes, Nascar, Football all manageable with TiVo...
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Summary: I LOVE THIS PRODUCT!! GET UP AND BUY THIS NOW!!
Review: What are you waiting for?? Get up and buy this product!! SOmeone at work talked me into buying this and I cannot live without it now...it beats TV and its awesome..from the pausing to the recording to the just downright ease of use...Tivo is ingenius...I can even tell it what to record from the office through the Internet...is that amazing? Go buy one. Im upgrading mine and even buying all of my family one for Xmas..
you will love it. YOu wont regret it.
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Summary: Convenient
Review: I received this as a b-day gift from my parents and have loved it since I first set it up. I finally get to watch shows that I want, no matter what odd-ball time it's on at. I don't waste time w/ commercials, or channel surfing anymore - just goto your programs that your TiVo recorded, and you're set. I have my TiVo connected through my wireless network at home and it works great. I have WEP security and MAC address added to the wireless security for my TiVo.
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Summary: The best way to watch TV
Review: Imagine that -- a hard drive for your TV.
I debated getting this, but it has changed our viewing habits. Now our VCR is only for playing back movies. No more staying home to catch favorite shows, because Tivo catches them all. (And you can even let Tivo record shows it finds that might interest you -- like gardening mysteries or underwater poker.)
Everyone in the family wants to be sure their shows are Tivo'd.
It's extremely easy to use and you'll use it a lot. You will never again root through unlabeled video tapes for something you want to see.
A wonderful device. Certainly the best TV electronics product ever. I wish I had thought of it.
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Summary: The best investment I ever made
Review: Like other reviewers I once considered TiVo to be a "glorified" VCR that instead of recording on tapes, digitally recorded onto a hard drive. However my eyes were opened dramatically when two years ago I moved to the DC area and met some people who not only used TiVo, but wondered how they had survived without one for so long.
That was 2002 and I picked up my first TiVo just last Saturday (two years later to the day). Just three days later I am also left wondering not only how did I manage to get by so long without a TiVo, but also what took me so long?
I always thought I never watched enough television to warrant purchasing a digital video recorder. I would watch and marvel at some of the features that a TiVo offers, but calculate that my viewing habits of DVDs and `Buffy the Vampire Slayer' hardly warranted the investment.
The fact is that TiVo not only allows you to make television fit into your schedule (instead of the other way around), but it also opens your eyes to other shows that you may have never come across without the features included in a TiVo. It's far, far more than just a glorified VCR. To compare a VCR to a TiVo is akin to comparing an abacus to a modern PC. TiVo really does revolutionize the way you watch television.
Features like Wishlists, two types of guides, TiVo suggestions, season passes and a number of other features make it an invaluable tool..
For example, with a VCR you can only record from the moment you decide to record something. With TiVo it is constantly recording so if you are 15 minutes or so into a show and you think "This is cool, maybe I should record the whole thing" then you can record from the start.
Alternatively if you come into the room and the show has already started then you can rewind the television and watch the show from the start.
One feature I really like is the Wishlist. TiVo calls in every week to get updated schedules for all your channels for the next two weeks. Therefore you can do searches for shows with a certain actor (e.g. Pierce Brosnan) and it will come up with all the TV shows and movies etc with that actor in it. There are also searches for directors and keywords etc etc....I already have about five or six wishlists saved.
Season Pass is VERY cool. Say you love the show ALIAS. Well you can tell TiVo to record every episode of ALIAS and it will store that information and record every episode of ALIAS that it finds until you cancel the season pass. Of course you don't want it recording repeats so there is a setting where you tell the TiVo to only record first-run episodes.
Say for example that ALIAS is on a Sunday and then repeated on Wednesdays (hypothetically speaking), the TiVo will know it recorded that same episode on Sunday so will not record it on the Wednesday. You see the TiVo has detailed information on each episode of every show on television (as well as movies etc) [that you can of course view through the different guides].
Of course you may have some shows on Season Pass that clash (on at the same time). Not a problem for TiVo. You prioritize the shows in order of importance. For example I have ALIAS higher that STARGATE: ATLANTIS. So, if there is a clash then the TiVo will record the ALIAS episode.
You can of course search manually for shows/movies etc through different genres.
Of course there are different types of onscreen guides that you can use that are similar to the types of onscreen guides that satellite and digital cable provide.
But there's more. You can pause, rewind and fast forward live TV (very cool). Say the phone rings in the middle of a show you are watching on TV. Just hit pause and the TV screen pauses at that point. Then when you get off the phone hit play and you can start watching from the point at which you paused it.
You can also set shows to record from your office. You are sitting in your office and a colleague tells you about a show that sounds interesting, but it starts before you get home. Simple, sign onto the TiVo website and you can schedule your TiVo back at your house to record that television show.
One feature I particularly like is the ability to watch a recorded show while TiVo records a different show. This is so particularly great because you never have to deal with commercials EVER AGAIN! By the time you have watched the show you were viewing you can switch to the show in progress and fast forward through all the commercial breaks - while the show is still being broadcast!
TiVo is simply put the best investment I have ever made. No more flipping through channels trying to find something interesting to watch. I only watch what I want to watch and when I want to watch it.
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Summary: Tivo Review *****
Review: I love my Tivo, it is one of the best investments I have made. It allows me to watch TV on my tearms, and it frees up my time to pursue other interests. It works great, and looks sexy while doing it. I hope to get another and try out the great networking features.
I spent alot of time mulling the reviews before purchasing, and I would just like to add that these review areas should cover the product, and weather or not you like using it. It takes a while to read these reviews to find out about the item, and it takes even LONGER when some people use it as a place to flame eachoter, and for people who don't use the item in question to soap box about their personal beliefs about TV.
Frankly I wasn't looking to hear the mis informed comments of people who have never owned this product, and don't intend to. Which raises another question... how do you people who don't watch TV, and don't own a Tivo know if it turns you into a couch potato? Even more importantly why are you wasting your time in forums telling people not to waste thier time watching TV? And how on gods green earth did you end up posting a review for something you not only don't want, but don't like, and don't agree with? Does this seem silly to anyone else here?
I wanted to know these things... does it work?
Yes mine works fine.
Is it easy to use?
Yes I think it is.
Is it reliable.
After 3 months mine has had no issues.
Am I satisfied?
Yes very.
Please answer questions about weather or not to buy the product if you are informed. If not, go find a forum about how TV is supposedly corrupting our culture. Last I checked this was not such a forum.
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