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We get this a lot by email and by phone: My TiVo is responding to my remote very slowly. I think my remote or my IR board is bad. I’ve changed the batteries and rebooted the unit.
We’ve got a strange answer for this, but it’s the right one almost every time: IR interference.
For some reason, [...]

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Starting yesterday, the brilliant minds at Pacific Bell - sorry, I mean SBC - sorry, that’s AT&T - have created an “overlay” or a new area code, which means all 310 users must now dial “1-310″ even to call a regular, local number.
That means, among other things, your TiVo won’t be able to dial out [...]

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With the crazy heat all over the country, we’re seeing a huge increase in the number of failed hard drives. Most of our customers are assuming that this is due to the heat directly - the unit heats up and kills the drive. The heat undoubtedly affects TiVos to some extent, and that could be [...]

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DirecTV has finally committed publicly to the new version of the OS for the High Def TiVo. Here’s a link to their page about this:
DirecTV Announces 6.3 for HD TiVos
You do need a phone line connected to your HR10-250 to get the update. As in the past, we’re pretty sure that the update itself will [...]

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This one takes the cake - dirtiest TiVo ever. King Tut’s got cleaner stuff:
Sand TiVo 1
Sand TiVo 2
And yet, with a new drive, it works . . . Don’t try this at home.

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