Tonight on NOVA....

Mike Proctor wrote:

My dishnetwork dvr has two tuners also.

Same as my DirecTV unit.

Of course, everything we want to record in watch is always on at the
same time, so we get the "I need to change one of the tuners message". G

Bob Fry wrote:

OK, right, maybe not "much" better. Some assembly required. But you
do get your privacy. The only reason Tivo sends your requests back to
HQ is to peddle the info to marketeers. Oh, right, they consolidate
it first. For now.

So? None of them have my email address, I'm on every do-not-call list
there is (no junk calls in at least a year), and I recycle the catalogs
that get by my DMA mail preferences before I even bring them in the house.

They know I like "Family Guy", "Mythbusters", and "The Colbert Report".
Every person I know also knows this, and now so do you. Big deal! G

They probably also know I skip all the commercials.

Jeez, I hope they don't figure out how many of us pause to get a good
look at Kari? Or maybe I _do_ want them to know... G

If you're a privacy nut, I'd be much more worried about supermarket and
credit card purchase databases than TiVO.

Mike Proctor wrote:
My dishnetwork dvr has two tuners also.

Which means that you're paying an extra $5 per month for PVR use... And
perhaps another $5 per month for renting that unit... I have probably
the first PVR unit that DishNetwork came out with (which I bought)...
Since it doesn't do the video-on-demand stuff that the new ones do,
there is no way for DishNetwork to know that it is a PVR unit attached
and as such, I don't have to pay the extra $5 for PVR access... Yeah, it
only does around 20-30 hours of recording, but unless I'm gone on
vacation it's unlikely that I need that much storage space anyway... I
just wish there was an easier way to transfer the stuff from it's
harddrive to my computer than a 1:1 realtime playback and record...

Robert M. Gary wrote:


Plus DirecTivo is the only interface I'm aware of that supports two
tuners. These old fashion guys with their Media Center or other "free"
DVR system actually have to change what they are watching when the DVR
wants to record something. Man, I'm happy I don't live in the dark
ages.

-Robert

There are non-DirectTV Tivos that have two tuners as well. I have one.