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We’ve just gotten the AM21 in stock. This is a peripheral unit that will tune digital OTA signals. It works with the H21, the HR21 (all models), and the HR21 Pro. It is the same color and look (black and shiny) and footprint as the H21 and HR21, but not the HR21 Pro.
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We’ve got a pretty extensive TiVo troubleshooting page on our site, but I thought I’d recap about the issues specific to power supplies, because we get a lot of questions about these.

The primary symptom of a bad power supply is getting no video out of any output port. That includes the gray screen - if [...]

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In Part 1, we posted about problems where networked TiVos can’t transfer shows because they don’t realize they have been authorized to transfer. This segment deals with a common network problem: different subnets.
A “subnet” is an isolated area of a network, generally with an IP address list in a reserved area of the IP space [...]

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There are two main reasons Multi Room Viewing can fail. Multi Room Viewing, or MRV, is the ability of Series2 and Series3 TiVo DVRs to see each other over the network and be able to transfer shows between each other (or, potentially, with more TiVos, if there are more on the network).
The first of the [...]

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Today TiVo announced that they have submitted their software for using Switched Digital Video (SDV) to CableLABS for testing. They use an external “tuning resolver” which is a device that talks back to the cable company to tell the head end what stations to send down the pipe.
SDV confronts many users in certain cable markets, [...]

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