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Summary: A great purchase for any TV fan.
Review: This is what TV should be. The TiVo box is reliable and easy to use. The coolest feature is the ability to pause live TV so that you can watch your favorite shows in their entirety, without having to miss something every time the phone rings. Recording programs is easier than doing so with a VCR because you don't need video cassettes.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: TIVO is amazing. This is the best thing since cable.You will love it.
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Summary: Their slogan is true! "never watch tv the same way again"
Review: Amazing! Just picked up the unit 48 hours ago, and already I can't imagine why I waited so long. What made my decision easier this weekend was the new refer a friend program. The new buyer gets $50 off when activating the service and the referring friend gets tivo merchandise. i.e. tivo dolls and tivo shirts. The Tivo is great... I found myself pausing and watching live tv... just because I could! hehe
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Summary: The coolest box ever
Review: I usually watch tv only late at night, after work. I used to switch endlessly thru cable channels, almost 100 of them, and find very little of quality. Now with Tivo, there's always something recorded that I want to watch, either movies or 1/2 hour sitcoms, sports events or interesting PBS shows. It's so easy to make it record the shows you want. It's totally changed our family's tv viewing habits. I must point out that it's not a good idea to record at lower resolutions, high quality is where I record most programs, and I don't really notice a difference between that at regular broadcast quality.
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Summary: A sure must have for tv viewers!
Review: This is a great product to have. Especially if you work and have activities at night that you can't miss. Now you don't have to miss your favourite shows or wait for them on reruns.
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Summary: You have to use it to know.
Review: Before getting my TiVo, I had read all about it - everything at their website, reviews, etc. I had a good understanding of what it does and how it works, but I still didn't realize just how nice it is to have one until I used it for a week. It seems funny, but I actually look forward to seeing what's on TV now that I know that there'll be a list of shows that I'm interested in under "What's showing" (things that it's recorded or in the process of recording). I'm discovering that there really is a lot of good programming on, when you can pick from anything, anytime. And no more missing the beginning of a show that starts at 9 because my daughter's not in bed yet.
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Summary: Join the Tivolution
Review: Before I had Tivo, I missed most of my favourite TV programs and wasted most TV-watching time channel-surfing for a decent show. With Tivo, I get home, sit down, and choose from a list of shows I like... I can never go back. It's fantastic.
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Summary: An excellent alternative to VCR hassles
Review: After going on vacation for a week and missing two of my favorite shows because the VCR tape got full and they changed the night of one of my programs, I took the bait, and boy, am I impressed! I used to tape a lot of shows, but Tivo makes finding and watching much easier.
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Summary: Can't live without it!
Review: What more can I add? This is one product, that after using it for a month, I can't live without it. When I first bought the panasonic, I was going to return it and get the Sony. However, after returning it, a week later, I was missing shows that I like and couldn't stand it! So I bout the phillips TIVO and am glad I did. There's no reason to wait for the Sony. This one is tried and true!
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Summary: Great Product, could use some tweaks
Review: This is a great, revolutionary product. It's pretty much as great as everybody says. I've had mine for a couple of months now and have no major complaints. However, in case Tivo's reading, all my (minor) complaints follow: Tivo comes with all kinds of hardware. Everything except a coax splitter which you need to buy if you want to continue using the tuner on your TV. (Which I think would be just about everybody because you have to do this if you want to watch live TV while Tivo's recording). The Season Pass records all showings of a particular show no matter when or what channel it's on. However if you pick a show that's in syndication or a cable show that's repeated often, you'll get many more than you actually want. It'd be better if a Season Pass was only good for one channel and time period. Also be nice if it were smart enough to not record additional showings of the same episode. Another bad thing about this is that it will not allow you to create other Seasons Passes if it thinks it interferes with the first one. (Like say you only want a Seinfeld season pass for a 4pm showing but Seinfeld also runs at 9pm on some other channel; I can't set up a season pass for some other 9pm show without disrupting the first). Of course the way around this is to record by time but I think some improvements can be made. When watching live TV, it keeps the last 30 minutes UNLESS you switch channels or a new show starts. This means that if I stop watching (without pausing) near the end of a show and a new show starts in the meantime, I'll have lost the ability to go back and watch the end of the show I was watching. I don't see why they blow away the last 30 minutes when a new show starts, particularly if it's on the same channel. As other people mentioned, it'd have been nice to have a skip-forward feature so you could skip forward in increments of 30 seconds or something. It'd be nice to have a menu option to have a less conspicuous play bar (or to put it at the top of the screen instead of the bottom). It covers up things like Who Wants to be a Millionaire questions until it times out and disappears. Sometimes the sound loses its top frequencies such that it sounds like a bad speaker. S sounds sound like static. This might be a function of the broadcast but live TV doesn't sound that way. It'd be great to have a VHS record list feature so you could record multiple programs to videotape all in one go. Sometimes I make tapes for my overseas friends and having to record one 1/2 hour program at a time is a pain in the rear. When scrolling through program listings, it makes you wait a second before bringing up the next screen. It should be pre-loading each screen in advance so it doesn't have to waste this kind of time. Due to program scheduling, many times it will miss the last 30 seconds or so of a broadcast (so you might miss that last joke while the credits are scrolling). It should give you an option where it will always record a couple of minutes before/after a program (if there isn't another program scheduled to be recorded immediately afterwards). I guess that's about it. Don't let all this scare you away. It's an awesome product and now that I have it, I wouldn't watch TV any other way.
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