New Member Sony Series One TiVo

[kareeme]

Hi I am in the process of buying a Sony Series One TiVo
it does not have a PAL tuner is it possible to have one installed.
or just connect to pay tv box.
any suggestins welcome.???

[Skolink]

Welcome.
You can do either (or both). Obviously the PAL tuner is for analog VHF/UHF broadcasts. The paytv (or FTA) box plugs in to the AV inputs on the back of the TiVo without any hardware modifications. You can add a second set of audio inputs so that you can plug one box into the svideo input, and one into the composite input, so you can have FTA + paytv.
Note that what ever configuration you use, the TiVo can only record from one at a time.
Of course you will need to reimage the TiVo HDD with an OzTiVo image CD on your computer.
Where are you located?
Plenty of info on www.oztivo.net

[petestrash]

Are you located in Australia or New Zealand?

The most common way of record Free to air Channels these days is to use a Digital Set Top Box instead of having an internal tuner fitted. The currently supported boxes are listed here (http://www.oztivo.net/tivo-bin/irdatabase.cgi) (you will need to register here (http://www.oztivo.net/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiRegistration) to see it).

Peter.

[Darren King]

As above comments. Yes I can still do PAL tuner installs but in all honesty with the extra channels you get on digital and the cheap prices on set top boxes I really would not bother with an internally fitted analogue tuner.

Please update your profile to reflect roughly where you live. It makes the job of helping answer specific questions a lot easier :)

[Skolink]

Also a useful list of STBs here http://oztivo.phoenixdigital.com/stb_browse.php