dsrtao has answered the TiVo side; the alternative is to hook a dedicated PC up to your cable line and use software. There are solutions out there for both recording (EyeTV) and getting channel guides, and combining them results in a useable system. Cheaper? Maybe. Easier? Definitely not. Doable? Certainly. Immune to TiVo's continuous down-grading? Yes.
See, TiVo used to be my favorite company, but for the past three years has been steadily removing functionality from my box. You used to be able to skip forward in 30 second chunks; now, you have to enter a "cheat code" to enable that functionality. Things like that. The latest go-round was introducing software to "expire" old programs that you don't watch within a particular period, according to the broadcaster's wishes; not nice. Also, for no discernable reason the UI is getting slow as toast, when it used to be quite sprightly.
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Date: 2006-09-27 07:21 pm (UTC)See, TiVo used to be my favorite company, but for the past three years has been steadily removing functionality from my box. You used to be able to skip forward in 30 second chunks; now, you have to enter a "cheat code" to enable that functionality. Things like that. The latest go-round was introducing software to "expire" old programs that you don't watch within a particular period, according to the broadcaster's wishes; not nice. Also, for no discernable reason the UI is getting slow as toast, when it used to be quite sprightly.
Other than that, it's a great product.