TIVO — Page 3

Thanks for the phone number. I'll call before I leave the house. If I get a human voice, I can ask my question and get the right answer.

I would suggest buying directly from Tivo. But hurry. I velieve the $100.00 rebates end this week.

I'm confused, do you have a DirectTv receiver with tivo?
or do you have a tivo/dvd recorder?
I have Direct TV and have the above mentioned Toshiba Tivo/DVD recorder and it works fine.

Yes I have DirecTV in three rooms and one of those rooms has a TiVo box, which I purchased from DirecTV. You have Toshiba Tivo/DVD recorder with your DirecTV? Then it should work for me. I need to do my homework on this topic. I'm being misled by sales people or I'm not understanding what they're saying (or asking the right questions). More phone calls or back to the store!! Thanks.

But it doesn't sound like she is putting both machines on the same TV.

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OK, I did my homework and made phone calls to DirecTV and the TiVo phone number noted on this thread. The DirecTV rep basically referred me to the TiVo company. I called them. It would cost me an additional $12.95 (or that lifetime fee) to buy a DVR-TiVo ($399 after $100 discount) that I would hook up to my existing unit. I think my best bet if I want TiVo in a second room is to buy a second unit through DirecTV (like the one I already have) for $99. Installation is free and I would pay no additional monthlly charge for the second TiVo.

Then back to deciding what kind of separate DVD recorder to buy. The decision, too, is whether to buy a combination DVD recorder/VHS recorder like the Sony or Toshiba brands that I've had my eye on OR just to buy a DVD recorder. Somehow I'm still leaning toward the combo. Less machines and I'd like to transfer some old videos to DVD.

So there it is. Thanks for all of your notes of help and the suggestions you've offered.

TIVO is sooo cool! When I was in my vacation in USA,
I was in our family friend's house and they have the latest one.
Now in Israel there is a new thing that do the same thing
like TIVO, but it's not as good as tivo...

You can only accomplish that if the tivo recorder is a tivo2 series machine. Ask your satelite provider if the machine they are sending youis tivo2. then all you have o do is go to the tivo website and you can program stuff from your computer.

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Good. rember; it has to be a tivo 2 machine so you can use the homemedia option ( which is what you want)

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I would definitely wait at least a month. Directv is suppose to be releasing new machines and tivo plans. Wait.

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