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We’ve had a bunch of questions about setting up units with antenna inputs recently. Customers with new drives, or re-doing Guided Setup with Series2 units with 9.3 have experienced problems with the auto-search for channels. TiVo knows about it, and is supplying a fix for it - 9.3c. If you have an affected unit, get [...]

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At WeaKnees, we’re really enamored of the new SWM8 multiswitches from DirecTV. They make installation so much easier - largely using just existing cable TV lines to send even multiple DirecTV streams around a house. Frankly, wiring this way is a whole different world, and much, much faster.
But as with any new technology, this brings [...]

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OK - probably not quite, but it’s pretty bad. And I’m not talk pornography (although we happen to have a good one of those here today also) but straight-up, actual dirt.

See that strange blob on the right that looks like a prop from a ’70s outer space movie? Its smaller sibling is just to the [...]

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As with all of our upgrades for TiVos, our upgrades for AppleTV units have survived every single upgrade to the AppleTV OS without a bit of a problem. And due to the way we perform these upgrades, we don’t expect any of them to cause a problem, ever. So if you are wondering whether you [...]

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By now you’ve probably heard that TiVo tried to predict who would be removed from American Idol last night. They put out a press release (although I confess that I couldn’t find it on their site, and the closest I could come to an original source on this was here - did they try to [...]

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