Our recent Tivo HD and HD-DVD purchases have caused us to need one more TOSLINK fiber-optic digital audio cable (because one of them, I forget exactly which, didn’t come with it and it only uses fiber-optic and not coaxial wire.) So I went on a search online. It turns out you can buy a 6 [...]

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A friend asked me the other day how to get his Tivo to make it’s daily call through his home network. Besides simply getting on the network via a wired or wireless connection, the real problem most people don’t think about is that the Tivo uses a large number of network ports to call home. [...]

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It’s clearly taken me a few days to get around to writing this. And that’s probably because I wasn’t that impressed with my Super Bowl watching experience. While the game was clearly in HD, it just wasn’t as impressive as I had hoped. The underwhelming experience may be because I had forgotten that we were [...]

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On January 31, 2008, Time Warner Austin added more HD channels to their lineup (National Geographic, History Channel, Fox Business News, Versus/Golf, Lifetime Movie Network, etc.) Unfortunately for us Tivo lovers, they are ALL Switched Digital Video (SDV) which means that the Tivo can not tune them in. You see, SDV channels are not always [...]

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