DirecTiVo

[ALLSKIING]

TiVo just got online today..Now for the fun.

[ALLSKIING]

Everytime I look at that tivo box its on record It just starts on its own. I looked in the auto record areas and nothing is set to record. Anybody else have this problem?

[ctenidae]

It's recording everything you watch (and what you say and do) and sending it to the government.

Kill your TV.

[Greg]

Originally Posted by ALLSKIING

Everytime I look at that tivo box its on record It just starts on its own. I looked in the auto record areas and nothing is set to record. Anybody else have this problem?

TiVo will record stuff on its own that it thinks you'll like based on previous shows you've recorded, thumbs up/down settings, etc. I would guess that's what your seeing. When viewing the "Now Playing" list you'll notice shows with a TiVo icon next to them. Those are the recordings TiVo picked to record. Of course, these will be purged first to make space for any shows that you manually tell it to record or have season passes for.

One thing that now bugs me about DirecTiVo is the inability to network it like you can with a vanilla Series2 TiVo. The phone line at my DirecTiVo's location is on the fritz and I wanted to get it to download it's schedule from the Internet versus dialing up. Unfortunately, the Direct TV version of TiVo disables the USB ports so putting it on a home network is not possible. This is the only thing I've found so far about DirecTiVo that I don't like; although it's a pretty big limitation, IMO...

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by ALLSKIING

Everytime I look at that tivo box its on record It just starts on its own. I looked in the auto record areas and nothing is set to record. Anybody else have this problem?

Make sure you turn off the option where it records shows that it thinks you like... I can't remember what it was called...

Ah! There it is. I believe it's Tivo Suggestions.

-Stephen

[Greg]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Make sure you turn off the option where it records shows that it thinks you like... I can't remember what it was called...

Ah! There it is. I believe it's Tivo Suggestions.

I've found a handful of programs that TiVo recorded to be pretty cool, e.g. some real obscure show from the History Channel that runs at 3:30 AM....stuff like that. It also is great for grabbing kids' shows. Again, it doesn't hurt anything to let TiVo record these. It'll just push out the older stuff to make room for stuff you're telling it to record as you need it.

[ALLSKIING]

That was it boys..Thanks!!