Quote Originally Posted by finethen
I have got hold of a UK Series 1 PAL TiVo, thinking it would be easier to set up without a VCR or STB. I have managed to do a guided setup successfully for sky digital but cant get on top of a FTA setup using the tuner. I have browsed the forums and found half questions with half answers, the step by step guides are great if you can work around the errors and diversions within them, but is there a step by step guide for NZ, FTA, UK PAL? I know TiVo in NZ is not paint by numbers, but the information in the forums and the OzTiVo website seem to be fragmented and after travelling down a number of paths within them I have exhausted the search. Has anyone done this setup that would be happy to help or write a little guide on it? Thanks
Well first up, welcome to the forums.

Secondly, no-one said this [Tivo in NZ in general, setting up Tivo in NZ for FTA in particular] would be a walk in the park.
If it was, well, there'd be no need for forums like this.

Thirdly, since you find the existing how-tos are so fragmented, why don't YOU contribute to the community and write the definitive how-to guide from your own experiences.
[which is about the level it needs to be for other beginners starting out].

You can start that by asking on the forums all the questions you found so irksome, wrong or just hard to understand - we will answer them/correct them from our collective knowledge - you try the answers to make sure they work properly and then you publish what you did and how to do it right as a how-to.

Hows that for an idea?

If that sounds like too much hard work, well then maybe Tivo is not for you?