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    Quote Originally Posted by DJC
    Personally I was looking for a things to involve a little more hacking around when I did mine, but the same result, its almost a no-brainer now days.
    I know what you mean, I love the results but was looking forward to more of a mental excercise. I had a new house alarm arrive the same day, now thats a project!!!!! Hugely complicated! Expect it to take days, hence the interest in hacking the Tivo about some more. So thanks Sean, will check these out!

    I am going to set up no-ip.com so I can see my Tivo from work (or anywhere on the internet) as well in case I want to program up some recording, like when I am travelling. Should also work from my Harrier PDA/Smartphone. Now that's geeky and an interesting challange!

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    There's no doubt about it. Accessing your TiVo remotely to schedule something is fantastic!

    .... and welcome to TiVo!
    Darren King
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darren King
    There's no doubt about it. Accessing your TiVo remotely to schedule something is fantastic!

    .... and welcome to TiVo!

    Yep, I have both my tivo's on my router (broadband) and I can access either one of them from anywhere in the world (via the internet) to schedule recordings..

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidClarke
    I know what you mean, I love the results but was looking forward to more of a mental excercise.
    Ah well I guess we've done a good job
    Heh if you want a challenge then lets step into a time machine, would like to take you back to my first experiences 4 years ago... :P
    Last edited by jaidev; 27-09-2005 at 09:17 PM.
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    LOL! I'll second that. Hours of manual configuring scripts and tivosh bash prompt entries just to configure a basic setup..... and I did it for about a dozen people who got the first of the internal PAL tuners put in by me. I cheated though as I did one config for Melbourne and another for Sydney (I thankfully didn't see any TiVo's from anywhere else), dumped the pre-configured hard disk image back to a file and just imaged from this.... saved a lot of work which in those days was serial connection to a PC running a terminal program

    You young'uns to TiVo don't know what you missed out on
    Darren King
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    PAL tuner might be an idea...

    Am I right in assuming that if I add a PAL tuner, I can record from free to air and STB at the same time, i.e. Sky Movie at 8:30 and CSI on TV3 at 8:30 ??? If so, time to get out the soldering iron!

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidClarke
    Am I right in assuming that if I add a PAL tuner, I can record from free to air and STB at the same time, i.e. Sky Movie at 8:30 and CSI on TV3 at 8:30 ??? If so, time to get out the soldering iron!

    No, you can only record one channel/programme at a time.

    But you can watch something you've recorded previously, while recording something.

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    PAL tuner of limited value in NZ

    So, since Sky Digital re-transmit free to air channels, (TVNZ, TV3, PRIME) there is limited value to the PAL tuner in NZ if you have a Sky Digital tuner. I see there is a Thompson UK Tivo on trademe, probably no advantage over the US Philips Tivo I now have...

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidClarke
    Am I right in assuming that if I add a PAL tuner, I can record from free to air and STB at the same time, i.e. Sky Movie at 8:30 and CSI on TV3 at 8:30 ??? If so, time to get out the soldering iron!
    Sorry, no. One recording at a time. And yes if you currently can get your FTA via other input means then no point in getting a PAL tuner installed unless you want a true "stand alone" TiVo that does not need to be tethered to anything else to get it's input.
    Darren King
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    then visit: http://kingey1971.wix.com/tivorepairs

    NOW ALSO REPAIRING FETCH TOO!

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    PAL tuner in NZ

    Darren,

    Thanks, what are you doing up this early! Appreciate the advice, whilst I would love to kill off my sky box, would miss the 3% of the content that is actually interesting, hence the purchase of the Tivo in the first place.

    A second unit in the house with a PAL tuner only would get around the two channels at once issue... Hmmm, more toys

    Can you ftp content from one to the other easily? Watch on the big screen, record in the bedroom, etc.

    I just read your post on the PAL /Stereo Mk 2 mod... No NICAM yet, is this also true of the Thompson unit??
    Last edited by DavidClarke; 28-09-2005 at 07:33 AM.

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