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amdx[_3_]

On 7/19/2016 7:37 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:45:11 -0500, amdx wrote:

What do you use for a program guide?

The system does have an on screen EPG Electronic Program Guide.
It works, You can view a single channel schedule for a large amount of
time, rather than all channels for a couple hour spread. It's not great
but usable. I have a link to a online TV Guide, so I can easily refer to
that if I'm interested.

The guide is the main attraction on the TiVo but I think the Replay TV
software was better overall.
I am still playing with it but the guide has 2 panes. You get the
overall lineup by time and you scroll through the channels or you can
select a channel and look at that one for as long as the current
schedule load will support.
Once you get to the search function, you will get everything on
broadcast TV and also what you can get on the streaming services. I
made a mistake when I said I wanted all the "Nova"s and it gave me
everything since episode 1 on Netflix along with what was coming up on
my PBS channel.
If you punch in "WWII" you get about 1000 hits, most of them streams
that are available from old History Channel and PBS shows on Netflix
and other streams along with a **** load of available movies.
The first thing I have to do is filter by the streams I buy as soon as
I figure out which ones I want. We already have Netflix and Prime.
Thinking about Hulu and maybe something else. I am still looking for a
CNN stream. Somebody must have it.

Counting on my fingers, I am already saving about $150 a month so I
can afford a few more streams. It will take about 3 months to amortize
the TiVo at that rate and it is a "lifetime" so around Thanksgiving, I
should be good.

What is the monthly subscription fee for the TiVo?
I'm still using cable, I can't get the wife interested
in going to streaming only. I had 12mbps streaming and I recently talked
to a cable guy and he said that I probably had 30Mbps, that
they had upgraded, I didn't really believe him so I did a Speedtest.
It came up 7Mbps, but I turned around and my son was play a game over
the internet, so I retested and it came up with 30Mbps plus a few
decimals. The never mentioned it or bumped my bill, but I'm sure it is
coming.
I would over ride my wife on cutting the cord if I had a Fox News
stream, but I don't see that being available. I have a friend that says
he uses a feed of Fox news clips that he's happy with, but I like
O'Reilly and Megan.
Mikek