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Summary: Love It. Makes TV better.
Review: Great product that makes the VCR a thing of the past. Once you have one you'll never be able to live without it. Best feature is the simple PAUSE. With five-month old twins being able to PAUSE the TV and deal with baby issues is very nice. The recording of shows is very simple, no setting time as a VCR does, but instead select the show by name and the TiVo will record the show even if the show moves to another time slot. Had mine for almost a year now and have had no troubles.
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Summary: Remote Control Problems
Review: I love my Tivo, but just a warning that I've had 2 remote controls break on me. Thankfully, Philips replaced the 1st broken remote (they shipped a new one in a few days), but I'm still waiting to receive my 2nd replacement remote control (it's been almost 3 weeks). Unfortunately, it's impossible to use your Tivo without the remote control.Hopefully, Philips will fix this remote control problem soon. Apparently, a good number of users have had their remote controls break on them too.
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Summary: Solid product, but takes some troubleshooting
Review: Very happy with it so far, but be ready to fiddle with it a bit to get it to work right. I had very poor picture quality using it until I replaced an ancient cable splitter I had with a more modern (...) Monster Cable brand version. Took me 3-4 days to get it working right (mainly fixing some cabling issues that weren't a problem when I just had a cable box and a VCR), but I'm pretty happy with is so far.
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Summary: READ THIS before you buy and SAVE A LOT OF TROUBLE!
Review: I wasn't sure whether to give this Philips Tivo zero stars or five stars. Zero stars because the quality stinks. Five stars because it's such an amazing product. On the negative side, the modem on my Tivo went dead in just six months. After reading all the Amazon reviews, it appears that this is a VERY common problem that can't be ignored. It wouldn't be so bad if the warranty weren't so short and if Philips/Tivo support weren't so completely incompetent. It's now been five weeks and they still haven't returned my Tivo -- even though I had to pay for them to fix it! I'm told the delay is because they ran out of refurbished units to send me. I don't find that an acceptable excuse. Since I still believe that Tivo is the most amazing invention since the personal computer, I still definitely recommend you buy one. Besides, it's not Tivo, but Philips that seems to have the quality problem (I'm not sure how the Sony versions rate on quality). But there are some steps you should take if you buy one: First, buy the extended warranty plan that most stores offer. You'll pay extra, but it will still be less then paying $100 for Philips to fix it. And store warranties last 3 years, unlike the awful 3 months labor, 1 year parts warranty that you get from Philips. Second, buy a special power strip that includes inputs for cable and telephone lines. This will stop any power surges from hitting your Tivo, which is what I suspect is causing a lot of these failures. (My Tivo died after during a mild thunderstorm.) Good luck!
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Summary: TiVo changes everything about TV
Review: Never sit through another show you don't like. Never miss an unannounced new episode of a favorite show. Never miss another bit of dialogue. Save a wishlist of favorite actors, directors, or any keyword, and TiVo will search them out continually, any time of the day or night. Once it's set up, there is always something on TV, ready to watch. For busy families, TiVo makes the cable bill worth the money again.
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Summary: modem blows up
Review: i was in love with this product, it was the best thing since sliced bread, except i paid 400.00$ and the modem blew up in less than a year. even with the waranty phillips wants over 100.00$ to fix it that is not including shipping which would cost maybe 30 or 40 dollars more. dont do it buy a different brand.
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Summary: It's great (when it's not at the repair shop)
Review: I absolutely loved my Tivo, it was great until the modem stopped working. Needless to say, I spent a loooong time on the phone with customer service. I found out then that after I gave them $99 and paid for the shipping they could fix it, so I thought. It came back yesterday, I hooked it up and sure enough, the modem works. Now, I have a new problem. It freezes up during the set up procedure. I haven't called customer service yet. If you really want one of these, I would recomend that you pay for the Tivo service on monthly basis for a year or so until your reasonably sure it won't die, or don't pay for it at all and use your recorder like a regular VCR by manually setting the time and date of shows. Most of all, read the negative reviews, for some reason, I didn't and now I'm paying for it.
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Summary: Wow - THE BIGGEST THING THAT HAPPEND TO T.V !
Review: Wow.! i have my 30 hr. tivo unit for 3 months now, and i enjoy every second of it! it's everything i hoped it'll be, and much more! i don't need to wait for my programs to show on, or to stay awake, and also - allot of times i just forget! now, i can just set the tivo "season pass" to record all the episodes of "The West Wing" and "Saturday Night Live", and it won't record re runs! i can also get the old epps of "Babylon 5" and the old comedies on -nickatnite- and see them when I feel like it! now, i dictate when to see my favorite shows, and not the tv. great features that i like are "browse what's on" and the "thumbs up\down", so i know what other ppl think, and the best is that it shows me similar programs to what i recorded - things i like and might never record otherwise! ..i really think this is the best machine ever.. the only thing is that you must remember that the 30 hr machine doesn't actually record 30 hr's unless you go on the lowest quality, (1.5 mega bites a sec).. but if you select normal quality (about 4mpbs) you get 22
hr's of 'tivoing'. other then that - the machine is great! i likes that the box came with a very long phone cord and a "doubler" for the phone slot.. any way - yes, i think this is the best thing that happened to my TV, since i got eyes! ---AN UPDATE -> READ THIE BEFORE YOU BUY!
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I really liked my Tivo, as you see from my original review.
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Summary: Changes the way you watch TV
Review: I never watched much TV before because I have a pretty low attention span. This lets you watch TV at your own pace... You'll never miss a thing!
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Summary: Changes TV into something refreshing!
Review: I've had my 30 hour Tivo unit for a couple of weeks now and I am really enjoying it. Its easy to use, and was fairly easy to set up with my cable box and Philips Magnavox TV. With TiVO unit,your no longer at the mercy of whatever happens to be on TV when you actually have some free time to watch something. There's actually alot of cool stuff on TV, it's just that most of it is at inconvenient times. (work,sleep etc) The Philips Tivo unit is very easy to drive, yet is very powerful in what it allows you to do. The TVguide listings are very handy to see whats on at a glance, and the searching options to find things to records are very flexible. The TiVo magazine recommendations are also very handy, highlighting things I might not have thought to record. The tIVo recommendations generated from you viewing habits are also sometimes interesting, and worth looking at once in a while to try out something new. The automatic updates to the software is an excellent feature, with the latest version of the software being an excellent revision...with the Season Pass manager being an excellent enhancement to an already great system. Thanks for making such a cool TiVO unit at an excellent price Philips...and hats of to the creators of the TiVo service, a truly excellent idea. The only thing I would say that 30Hours really isnt 30Hours unles your recording on the worst quality. On medium quality which is totally cool, you get about 21hours on a 30hour unit. If you dont own a TiVO unit and have cable TV access, your just not getting value for money out of your cable connection, do yourself a huge favour and by a TiVO unit. You wont regret it. Cheers,
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