[OT] TIVO

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

One question on TiVO.
I was looking at TiVO, and I saw that it makes nightly phone calls. How
compatible is TiVO with cable boxes? (From the TiVO site, I do see that
it is compatible with my cable box - has anyone got it working well with
Comcast)
With that I mean:
If you hook it up directly to the cable box, you can receive anything
coming through the cable box, but you would need to use the cable box as
the tuner. (1)
If you hook it up upstream of the cable box (eg. directly to the cable),
you can receive all your non-digital, non-subscription service  (eg. the
sources you would get without a cable box). This is how I have the VCR
set up, so I can record a channel indepently from the cable box (2)

(1):
Cable--->Cable Box--->TiVO--->TV

(2)
Cable-+->TiVO---->TV (aux).
      |
      +->Cable box--->TV

I do see that TiVO has bot S-Video and Composite Video input/output.


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