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Summary: TIVO is awesome
Review: I have been using my TIVO for about two months and I love my TIVO. With TIVO I always have a selection of movies available to watch when I want to watch them. I set TIVO to record a TV series with one button and TIVO faithfully records it for me every week, even if the network changes the time slot, you can't fool TIVO.Love it.
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Summary: TiVo Rocks!
Review: Never in my life did I think TV could be as enjoyable as it has become.My husband had been wanting to teach me about the NBA and this definately helped me to learn about the sport and have the ability to do a play in slow-mo... WOW! I have one person to thank for turning us on to TiVo and that would be my Mom. Here is a woman who has a hard time screwing in light bulbs (No Joke! ) and she can zip around all over TiVo with the skill and speed of a knoweledgable computer geek. To make a long story short, we love our TiVo so much we are buying another.
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Summary: Love my TiVo!
Review: Just a fabulous addition to my home! Now what limited time I have to watch TV is great! Also, when I AM interrupted,....just pause! And come back to it. LOVE the suggestions....makes it easy to filter out waste of time TV! Can't recommend enough!
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Summary: TIVO Creates Couch Potatoes
Review: TIVO is amazing. I am not much of a TV junkie but TIVO has me hooked. Like most people I put in a long day at the job. It is so nice to come home and actually have something I like to watch. I am a big Twilight Zone Fan. Most "Zones" air either in the middle of the night or during working hours. I set my TIVO up to give me a season pass to the program. When I come home after work there are always at least 2 episodes recorded for me to watch. The only problem that I have is that sometimes the audio does not match the video. It's sort of like watching an old Godzilla movie. I have to go to the menu and restart the receiver to fix.
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Summary: TiVo is everything I'd hoped it would be
Review: I've had my TiVo now for just under a week, and I already can't imagine going back to watching TV without it. The ability to pause and rewind live TV is nice, but I find that with TiVo, I rarely watch live TV anymore at all. TiVo knows what shows I want to watch, and it makes sure they're available whenever I want to watch them. I also have to mention that the documentation is among the best I've ever seen with a consumer-electronics product. It's extremely well written and thorough, and even though TiVo setup can be complex, the guide presents several different scenarios with clear instructions for each. This is how everyone will watch TV in a few years.
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Summary: You NEED this....
Review: There are plenty of gadgets that give the impression that it's great- but once the initial excitement wears off you realize it didn't live up to what you expected. Do you have pieces of junk in your closet that you had high hopes for? Rest assured TiVo is NOT one of those. TiVo really does change the way you watch TV. Not only can you pause "live" TV (a feature that has to be used to be appreciated), but you can replay and slow-mo live too! No more "what did he say?" or "did I just see that?... with a simple push of one button you can jump back 8 seconds, and keep jumping back 8 seconds with multiple button pushes. ...And who doesn't love to skip the commercials?! Best of all, for many TiVo users the concept of "live TV" simply disappears. TiVo is, after all, a recording device. If you want to watch programs when it's convenient for you, it's as simple as keying in a few letters to find the show, and select "record this show". Best of all, you can also choose a "season pass", which records that show every time it's on that channel. No more missed episodes, no more forgetting to watch. It's a very user-friendly and easy to use device- even someone who has a VCR with a blinking "12:00" will be watching every show they love. UPDATE: TiVo has added a "Wish List" that will allow you to put in favorite actors' names, keywords or whatever you like so TiVo can automatically record these personal favs. I put in "Beatles", so now every program description that mentions the Fab Four automatically gets recorded for me. Brilliant! Video quality ranges from sub-VHS ("basic") to nearly impossible to tell from the original ("best") plus two levels in the middle. I was worried with the claims that TiVo "degrades" the picture quality of recorded and live TV because of the MPEG compression, but I found that the "Best" quality is nearly perfect, and "High" quality is very acceptable. This videophile has no problems with what TiVo does to the signal. One of the coolest features of TiVo is its ability to learn what you like and don't like. Using the "Thumbs Up" and "Thumbs Down" buttons on the remote, your personal TV player will be able to give you suggestions on things you might have missed or didn't know you would like. If there's room on the hard drive it will even record things it thinks you might like, but ONLY if you tell TiVo you want this feature. I have found a few movies that I had never heard of that were actually pretty good. Speaking of the remote, the Philips TiVo remote can also operate your TV and stereo receiver, and it's one of the best remotes I've ever had the pleasure to use. So why didn't I give TiVo a perfect 5 stars? I subtracted a star because, with a device like this, there's always room for improvement. Setup takes an agonizingly long time, especially if you have a lot of channels on your cable or satellite. The current version of software does not allow you to add "handles" to your recording, so it's not uncommon to miss the final minute of a show or movie. (UPDATE: This and other great features have been added as a software update, so my review went from 4 to 5 stars.) If the network doesn't start at the top or bottom of the hour the recording can be less reliable, and if something like sports run over causes a time shift you are out of luck for that recording. It's still much MUCH better than VHS recording, of course. One thing to keep in mind is the claims of "14 hour" and "30 hour" TiVos are a little misleading- those times refer to "Basic" quality. If you care about picture quality, you will be recording at the "High" and "Best" video level which can bring a 14 hour unit down to 4 hours, and a 30 hour unit down to around 9 hours. Record a couple movies at "Best" and you will start to see the hard drive space disappear. My advice: go for the "30 hour" if you can afford it. Once you discover all the great shows you have been missing because they aren't on when you can watch them, you will need every bit of hard drive space. Another thing to remember is that, in order to utilize your TiVo to it's fullest potential, you will need to plug it into a phone line and subscribe to TiVo's $9.95 a month service. But let me say that the service it worth it! For that monthly fee they update the show listings every day and will even update the unit's software when they add new features. And TiVo's customer support is 2nd to none. Final word: TiVo is a brilliant device that, once you try it out in your own home, you will never want to be without. If you value your time and enjoy TV, this fun and friendly little device will become your best friend.
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Summary: A Modern Miracle
Review: At long last, a device that records what you want, when it's on. Having a satellite dish, trying to record my favorite shows on VCR was a nightmare. With the direct connection from dish to Tivo I am in heaven! Now I can set it up to record my favorite shows, and if there is an extra broadcast during the week, it catches it.
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Summary: TiVo is worth every penny! I save 20 hours each week!
Review: If you can hook up your VCR, you can hook up TiVo, kid stuff. No more Tv Guide, everything is on screen, easy television guide on the television, allows you to tape without knowing the day or the time, just name the show. I can skip commercials and watch tv anytime day or night, on the hour or at 12 minutes past, my favorite shows are ready to go. You can also watch a pre-recorded show and tape something else at the same time! My neighbor has that replay tv machine and told me he likes TiVo better...he said something about replay making too much noise and also that it's call-in's at night being long distance toll calls. TiVo calls an 800 number, no charges! TiVo has saved me hours by allowing me to skip commercials, skip channel surfing, and has allowed me to really watch what I want, when I want it. TiVo is the future, today!
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Summary: Setup a bear but the results worth it
Review: hired a home theater dude to install this for me and even looking over his shoulder it took 3 times to install. Now that it's been in two weeks i love it but take your time when you set it up. 800 help number REALLY WORKS! Friendly nice people helped us through the last setup.
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Summary: Tivo needs some work
Review: I think the product is a fine idea, but of 2 units purchased, both proved defective; the first had a large number of artifacts in the picture; the second alternately lost sound or picture after operating for about 5 minutes. The frustating thing is you have to go through the entire setup (measured in hours) before you can see if it will work. Tivo is a product whose time has not yet come- I doubt I will try a third. I got one of the first Replay TV units-the remote control was poorly designed and the unit was noisy-at least Tivo solved that-if they could only make it work!
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