BoatBanter.com - Any TiVo guys here?

On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 08:33:20 -0500, amdx wrote:

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?

Nothing I bought the lifetime. That is why the box costs so much.

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

You can usually live stream these things but that means you have to be
there watching when they are on. I have the same issue with CNN. I am
not as interested in the actual news coverage as I am the specials.
All of those cable news channels spin the news with a generous dose of
political bias.
The Kevin Spacey "White House" show was pretty good.
I am still playing with my Avermedia DVR card in a PC, I did not have
any luck archiving the stuff on my Dish DVR yet with it since Dish has
a poison pill in the video stream that the Avermedia sees and blocks
(even on broadcast content or just the menu). I think I may be able to
record the output of another PC so I can time shift streams tho. I
still have not figured out if the TiVo will do it but the streams it
gets are inherently archived in the cloud anyway. I don't see any live
streams in my supported services so I will still have a PC on some of
my TVs. Right now there are 2 PCs, a Dish box and the TiVo on the main
TV but one PC is the DVR with the Avermedia card. It will go if I
can't find something useful for it to do.
I am really surprised I am not finding software to capture/time shift
live streams directly and cut out the middle man. I guess I have to
keep looking. I have tried a few things but they really did not work
that well. You have to be there to start them which defeats the
purpose of time shifting. Still having the Dish box around is making
me lazy about this and I have not worked that hard at it but I am
backing away from it.