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Originally posted by greglepore
I have a question re the basic service-what searches can you do, or is it basicly like using a VCR?
My wife just bought me one as a gift, and misunderstood the salesman about the service cost. I'm not crazy about the 300 bucks, and am thinking about returning it (for an IPOD) but if it was reasonably functional with the basic...
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The basic service is better then a VCR. This morning we used the "season pass" feature to set it up to record every episode of Lost. Then my wife set it up to record General Hopital!
She loves the thing.
Then they have some thing where they suggest shows based on what you've watched. So since my wife watches home improvement and design shows a lot there were lots of those type of shows recommended. There was also a new craft show that she didn't know about.
As if she didn't watch TV enough already!
If you pay for the Tivo service, and you have a home network, and connect the Tivo to it you can schedule your Tivo through the internet with your web browser. So you could control your Tivo from work for example. You can play mp3s stored on your PC, or do a slideshow of digital pictures stored on your PC. Plus if you have multiple Tivos you can transfer recorded shows between them. There are a couple more features you get as well. See the tivo web site for more info:
http://www.tivo.com/1.2.asp
We still haven't decided if we want to go for the paid service. At this point it seems like they give you enough for free that it isn't really worth the extra money for the paid features.