RE: TiVo question

["Stainton-James, Mark (London)" <stainmar@xxxxxxx>]

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Kevin,

 

There are several threads on the Tivo forum, regarding manual recording confirming that it is not possible to do manual records if you subscription has expired.  There is one thread though that contradicts this saying the 'aerial' channels could still be recorded. Although unless you don't have a subscription you can't test this !!!

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Hawkins [mailto:lists@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 April 2002 15:34
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] TiVo question

 

My understanding is that without a subscription you can still record manual start and end times for particular channels.

 

Are you sure that the below info is right ??

 

and Don .. this is not so much an issue of bypassing subscription charges but a discussion of how to have several Tivos working in harmony in one household - something that is not achievable whether you subscribe or not - I see that as appropriate to this forum, I agree that evading a sub fee by hacking is not in the interest of Tivo owners at all (we need Tivo to stay in business and I already have a full subscription), but them thinking about how to provide a solution to this issue and offering a solution is in everyone's interest, and probably best solved by some more development work and a reduced second subscription like SKY do.

 

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Don McAllister [mailto:donmc@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 April 2002 14:32
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] TiVo question

Guys, Without a subscription the machine is next to useless. You cannot manually set up recordings all you can do is capture the 30mins live TV cache and nothing else, zippo.

 

The whole concept of the TiVo is based on the subscription and the automatic download of the enriched (!) TV listings. I know it sounds a lot but it really is worth the outlay to get the sub.

 

As someone else mentioned, the discussion of subscription dodging is frowned upon in the TiVo forums. Whilst it probably is technically achievable, it is not encouraged. This is presumably to stop people taking revenue from TiVo to ensure they remain in business and develop the platform.

 

If you wish to continue discussing bypassing subscription charges, can you take it off list please.

 

Ta

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Mc Aree [mailto:michael.mcaree@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 04 April 2002 14:20
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx Subject: RE: [ukha_d] TiVo question

 

    Actually I am thinking about using Digiguide with a bit of programming to automatically send the IR commands to a Tivo without a subscription 

 

Not sure how this will help. I thought that you could not add manual recordings without a subscription. What IR commands are you planning to send?

 

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