A couple of months ago the remote for one of our two Hughes HDVR2 DirecTiVos

stopped being able to control the TV. I ended up buying a TiVo Glo Premium

Remote direct from TiVo because it was about the same price as the DirecTiVo

remote from weaKnees.



However, I notice it seems to really go through batteries. Does anyone else

notice this? Is there a way to turn off the backlight feature on this

remote? (which may or may not be the culprit)



Thanks ... Mike





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Once upon a time Mike Thomas shaped the electrons to say...

> However, I notice it seems to really go through batteries. Does anyone else

> notice this? Is there a way to turn off the backlight feature on this

> remote? (which may or may not be the culprit)



It probably is the backlight, I noticed the same thing.  And yes, you

can turn it off.



http://tinyurl.com/3lyfk3



~ To turn the backlight off, press and hold the TIVO and the THUMBS

DOWN buttons until the red light blinks three times.



~ To turn the backlight on, press and hold the TIVO and the THUMBS UP

buttons until the red light blinks three times.



-MZ

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"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171

Thanks!



On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:39 PM, MegaZone <yahoo@...> wrote:



> Once upon a time Mike Thomas shaped the electrons to say...

> > However, I notice it seems to really go through batteries. Does anyone

> else

> > notice this? Is there a way to turn off the backlight feature on this

> > remote? (which may or may not be the culprit)

>

> It probably is the backlight, I noticed the same thing.  And yes, you

> can turn it off.

>

> http://tinyurl.com/3lyfk3

>

> ~ To turn the backlight off, press and hold the TIVO and the THUMBS

> DOWN buttons until the red light blinks three times.

>

> ~ To turn the backlight on, press and hold the TIVO and the THUMBS UP

> buttons until the red light blinks three times.

>

> -MZ

> --

> megazone-at-megazone.org  http://www.MegaZone.org/   Gweep, Geek, Human,

> me.

> http://www.GizmoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/ -><- Hail

> Eris

> "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men"

> 508-852-2171

>

> ------------------------------------

>

> Yahoo! Groups Links

>

>

>

>





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Does anybody have any experience with Nero Liquid TV and can give some

opinions on it?



In my seemingly never-ending quest for the ability to play back DVDs (and

preferably DVDs ripped to ISOs) using a TiVo-like interface, I wondered

whether Liquid TV might be able to this (play DVD ISOs).



I have read a couple of reviews but they weren't in-depth enough to cover

this kind of question.



BWT I tried this on Vista Media Center about a year ago and it was very hard

to accurately fast-forward in a movie that had been ripped to the hard drive

(as individual VOBs, IFOs, etc., not as an ISO). To be fair I was blown away

that a Microsoft product would even let you play VOBs, but it turns out it's

an unsupported feature, and appeared to have two fast-forward speeds -

1.00000001x and 1000x ;-)



Any other suggestions welcome, although with the exception of Liquid TV they

would probably be diverging us from the discussion at hand (TiVo).



Thanks ... Mike

There's MythTV, but if you're not already comfortable with Linux the learning

curve is very steep.  I would start with their live distribution (CD bootable). 

There are other DVR packages out there too, some free, some not, some Windows,

some Linux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_PVR_software_packages



I doubt any of them are as family friendly at TiVo.







________________________________

From: Mike Thomas <wenglish98027@...>

To: tivocentral@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 8:42:29 PM

Subject: [TiVo Central] Nero Liquid TV?





Does anybody have any experience with Nero Liquid TV and can give some

opinions on it?



In my seemingly never-ending quest for the ability to play back DVDs (and

preferably DVDs ripped to ISOs) using a TiVo-like interface, I wondered

whether Liquid TV might be able to this (play DVD ISOs).



I have read a couple of reviews but they weren't in-depth enough to cover

this kind of question.



BWT I tried this on Vista Media Center about a year ago and it was very hard

to accurately fast-forward in a movie that had been ripped to the hard drive

(as individual VOBs, IFOs, etc., not as an ISO). To be fair I was blown away

that a Microsoft product would even let you play VOBs, but it turns out it's

an unsupported feature, and appeared to have two fast-forward speeds -

1.00000001x and 1000x ;-)



Any other suggestions welcome, although with the exception of Liquid TV they

would probably be diverging us from the discussion at hand (TiVo).



Thanks ... Mike













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My Series 3 has been giving me problems.  I was hoping it was the hard

drive, so I put it a new Terabyte drive with the TiVo info already on it.

Everything seems to be working perfectly, no more flickering (which is what

my old drive was doing).  I just had to go thru all the setup again.  No

problems.



Until I noticed my premium channels (HBO Showtime) did not work. when I put

one of those channels on, the TiVo went to the cable card screen.  Stating

that I need to call Comcast for this to work...

ALL, my other channels worked fine, HD and SD...



So, I called Comcast,

Yeah, they knew what they were doing!



All the excuses like:

cable cards do not worth with TiVo...

They must be fried...

Something must be wrong with the TiVo...

Call TiVo...



It worked perfectly for 2 years, and now all of a sudden my premium channels

don't work???!!

$^#^%*&% )(*&(*^%%^#^% 9*&(*^(^**%$&!



After talking HOURS with 6 different people from Comcast on the phone, they

said they have to send a tech.



Of course, when the tech came by the next morning he said he don't real know

anything about cable cards, AND don't have any on the truck.

I tried to keep cool, ($#^$#@#@%^&&*%)

I said you probably will NOT need new cards, you just need to call in

numbers...



After hours of him giving numbers, still nothing, so he yanked out the cards

to start fresh, now I have almost NOTHING working, maybe 5 or 10

channels....



Anyone know WHY this is a big problem?

Maybe cause it is Sunday and all the know-nothings are working?



It is a Series 3 and from what I read the M-card will work, but I will need

2 of them, is this true?



The tech said the M-cards configure SOoo much easier...



Ron

Once upon a time Ron Koms shaped the electrons to say...

> Until I noticed my premium channels (HBO Showtime) did not work. when I put

> one of those channels on, the TiVo went to the cable card screen.  Stating

> that I need to call Comcast for this to work...

> ALL, my other channels worked fine, HD and SD...



I don't think any pairing info is stored on the drive, so this may be

coincidence, but it does sound like the cards we not paired correctly.



> After hours of him giving numbers, still nothing, so he yanked out the cards

> to start fresh, now I have almost NOTHING working, maybe 5 or 10

> channels....



So they definitely screwed up the pairing.



> Anyone know WHY this is a big problem?



Sounds like you got bad support, it shouldn't be hard at all.



> It is a Series 3 and from what I read the M-card will work, but I will need

> 2 of them, is this true?

>

> The tech said the M-cards configure SOoo much easier...



The tech is high, pairing is identical for S-Cards and M-Cards.  But

yes, you can use two S-Cards or two M-Cards.  M-Cards fall back to to

acting like S-Cards in host devices without multistream support - like

the S3.  So the end result is the same.



-MZ

--

megazone-at-megazone.org  http://www.MegaZone.org/   Gweep, Geek, Human, me.

http://www.GizmoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/ -><- Hail Eris

"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171

Thanx for the reply MZ...



So a tech will be coming back tomorrow.

Their plan is to bring 2 NEW cards and start from scratch.

Is there anything I should help or show him to make things go smoother?



They usually have that "I already know" attitude...



Ron







> -----Original Message-----

> From: tivocentral@yahoogroups.com

> [mailto:tivocentral@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of MegaZone

> Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 6:19 PM

> To: tivocentral@yahoogroups.com

> Subject: Re: [TiVo Central] Comcast Cable Card nightmare...

>

> Once upon a time Ron Koms shaped the electrons to say...

> > Until I noticed my premium channels (HBO Showtime) did not

> work. when

> > I put one of those channels on, the TiVo went to the cable card

> > screen.  Stating that I need to call Comcast for this to work...

> > ALL, my other channels worked fine, HD and SD...

>

> I don't think any pairing info is stored on the drive, so

> this may be coincidence, but it does sound like the cards we

> not paired correctly.

>

> > After hours of him giving numbers, still nothing, so he

> yanked out the

> > cards to start fresh, now I have almost NOTHING working,

> maybe 5 or 10

> > channels....

>

> So they definitely screwed up the pairing.

>

> > Anyone know WHY this is a big problem?

>

> Sounds like you got bad support, it shouldn't be hard at all.

>

> > It is a Series 3 and from what I read the M-card will work,

> but I will

> > need

> > 2 of them, is this true?

> >

> > The tech said the M-cards configure SOoo much easier...

>

> The tech is high, pairing is identical for S-Cards and

> M-Cards.  But yes, you can use two S-Cards or two M-Cards.

> M-Cards fall back to to acting like S-Cards in host devices

> without multistream support - like the S3.  So the end result

> is the same.

>

> -MZ

> --

> megazone-at-megazone.org  http://www.MegaZone.org/   Gweep,

> Geek, Human, me.

> http://www.GizmoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/

> -><- Hail Eris "A little nonsense now and then, is relished

> by the wisest men" 508-852-2171

>

> ------------------------------------

>

> Yahoo! Groups Links

>

>

>

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Once upon a time Ron Koms shaped the electrons to say...

> Is there anything I should help or show him to make things go smoother?



Try to make them do one card and then the other, and do them in the

right order - Slot 1, Slot 2.  I also write down all the numbers from

the cards first myself and then listen along when they call them in to

make sure they don't make any mistakes.  I've caught them transposing

digits and such which would break the pairing.



-MZ

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http://www.GizmoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/ -><- Hail Eris

"A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171

> I've caught them transposing

> digits and such which would break the pairing.



Given how small the numbers are on the label it's not too hard to get them

wrong.  Tiny print and a long series of digits is a recipe for mistakes.

You'd at least think they'd break the sequence into smaller groups (ie

111-222-333 instead of 111222333) but nooooooo....



The Tivo shows you the cablecard numbers but the tech kept trying to read

them off the card directly.



I put the cards on my printer/scanner and made a 200% larger copy to make

the numbers more readable.

Thanks Jeremy.



While I'm intimately familiar with Linux as well as various flavors of UNIX,

I prefer my entertainment system at home to just plain work without too much

tweaking ;-)



-----Original Message-----

From: tivocentral@yahoogroups.com [mailto:tivocentral@yahoogroups.com] On

Behalf Of Jeremy Sullivan

Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 5:38 AM

To: tivocentral@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [TiVo Central] Nero Liquid TV?



There's MythTV, but if you're not already comfortable with Linux the

learning curve is very steep.  I would start with their live distribution

(CD bootable).  There are other DVR packages out there too, some free, some

not, some Windows, some Linux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_PVR_software_packages



I doubt any of them are as family friendly at TiVo.

If you've got spare hardware laying around with good Linux drivers, I really

suggest you check it out - at least the live distro.  The project is nearly 7

years old now and is pretty mature.  Their discussion list is VERY active and

can be found on the main website.











________________________________

From: Mike Thomas <wenglish98027@...>

To: tivocentral@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 11:07:09 PM

Subject: RE: [TiVo Central] Nero Liquid TV?





Thanks Jeremy.



While I'm intimately familiar with Linux as well as various flavors of UNIX,

I prefer my entertainment system at home to just plain work without too much

tweaking ;-)



-----Original Message-----

From: tivocentral@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:tivocentral@ yahoogroups. com] On

Behalf Of Jeremy Sullivan

Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 5:38 AM

To: tivocentral@ yahoogroups. com

Subject: Re: [TiVo Central] Nero Liquid TV?



There's MythTV, but if you're not already comfortable with Linux the

learning curve is very steep.  I would start with their live distribution

(CD bootable).  There are other DVR packages out there too, some free, some

not, some Windows, some Linux.

http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Comparison_ of_PVR_software_ packages



I doubt any of them are as family friendly at TiVo.













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