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Ok—we’re hugely biased. We live, breathe and pay for the kids’ educations with TiVo. But honestly, if you love TiVo and have multiple TVs in your house, it really is cost-effective to purchase a second box.
If you have DIRECTV, you might already know that DIRECTV does NOT charge an additional TiVo service fee for two [...]

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Over the past 5 years, a lot of TiVos have passed through the weaKnees warehouse for upgrades, repairs and the like. The vast majority are all the same—boxes with a bunch of circuits, wires and a hard drive or two.
Some, however, are very special: They take on the characteristics of their owners. And we’re not [...]

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For those of you with Series 2 TiVos, the new version of TiVo Central Online is out of beta and up and running. The new version uses Ajax and has lots and lots of additional features, in addition to being faster and much more usable.

This is the update that we mentioned from when we were [...]

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As the buzz over digital (high definition) television spreads, we receive more and more inquiries about the best way to get HD, how to choose a TiVo if you want HD, DIRECTV and HD and on and on.
In an effort to help our phone guys (who are on the front lines when customers call), I [...]

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TiVo has updated the version of TiVo Desktop for Macintosh to 1.9.2. This version finally promises compatibility with Tiger (OS X 10.4). Previously, you had to use a separate utility to get TiVo Desktop to work on Tiger, but now it installs and works without a problem. The notes claim it won’t work with an [...]

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