oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
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join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA
| TV Your Way...if you happen to be Fox
Boy I'm not missing cancelling my TiVo service. After years of great service they took the 30% increase then started the system message spamming and banner ads...then the animated gif style ads during programs...
Now this.
TiVo sucks royal.
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dentman42
join:2001-10-02
Columbus, OH | Be interesting to see if the same thing happens to the Family Guy repeat on Adult Swim.
Is there alternate firmware for TiVO? Does TiVO require the service to operate or can it run as a digital VCR without the TiVO program guide? |
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hrickpa
join:2001-06-07
Reading, PA
 ·Covad Communications
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fox and a couple of other channels are already using the broadcast flags. my tv tuner accepts the broacast flags.
the recording button dissapears on the channels that has it. in the channel list there are little flags in the list
next to the fox channels and a few other channels |
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Pz_
join:2001-03-31
Brownsburg, IN
clubs:
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Or you could just not allow your Tivo to update its software. (by not hooking up the phone line) I have the original Tivo software that came with my Series 2 Direct Tivo from a few years back. I get no banners, spam or recording restrictions. The hardware works well, its just they keep trying to break it for some reason.
You can easily find original images of pre updated Tivo's floating around the usual places. Or you could just install your own, that works just as well. |
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moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
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said by oliphant  :Boy I'm not missing cancelling my TiVo service. After years of great service they took the 30% increase then started the system message spamming and banner ads...then the animated gif style ads during programs... Now this. TiVo sucks royal. Go say that on the Tivo community board.  :D:D
Those guys treat Tivo like a religion. |
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oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
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join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA
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I think DirecTiVo is immune from most of these things even with software updates.
I couldn't stop mine from updating. I lost functionality. It would grab the software updates at the same time it did program data.
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oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
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join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA | reply to moonpuppy
Which is why they're on the TiVo board. You can find supporters for any line of crap service. I'm sure there are Yugo boards too.
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