{"id":828,"date":"2010-04-08T15:15:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/?p=828"},"modified":"2010-04-08T15:15:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T22:15:06","slug":"tivo-premiere-phone-adapter-is-in-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2010\/04\/tivo-premiere-phone-adapter-is-in-stock\/","title":{"rendered":"TiVo Premiere Phone Adapter is in Stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, OK, this may not be as newsworthy as info on our upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2010\/04\/weaknees-upgrades-the-tivo-premiere-to-4tb\/\">4 TB TiVo Premiere<\/a>, but for those without full time internet access, the TiVo phone line adapter is the only way to get a Premiere or Premiere XL running and full of guide data.<\/p>\n<p>This is a simple USB-modem dongle that reminds me a lot of the dongles that Apple made right after they first came out with their first laptops that didn&#8217;t have internal modems. And it basically accomplishes the same thing: providing an inexpensive solution for those without broadband access.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as TiVo makes clear, a lot of the functionality of the TiVo Premiere line is lost without a broadband connection. In fact, as you will learn if you install one of these, the TiVo Premiere can&#8217;t be used with HD menus if you&#8217;re using a phone line connection (as of this writing, anyway). One of the steps (omitted in TiVo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/support.tivo.com\/app\/answers\/detail\/a_id\/1545\">online instructions<\/a>) is to switch from HD to SD menus &#8211; that&#8217;s required if using the phone line adapter.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_829\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-829\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-829\" title=\"tivo-premiere-phone-line\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tivo-premiere-phone-line.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tivo-premiere-phone-line.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tivo-premiere-phone-line-150x103.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Also includes a phone line and line splitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Setup is as simple as could be &#8211; just as if the modem were built into the motherboard. The TiVo presents numbers and tests them.<\/p>\n<p>The unit is in stock and ready to go, and ships with a long phone cable and a splitter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/tivo-networking-parts.php\">TiVo Premiere USB Phone Line Adapter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, OK, this may not be as newsworthy as info on our upcoming 4 TB TiVo Premiere, but for those without full time internet access, the TiVo phone line adapter is the only way to get a Premiere or Premiere XL running and full of guide data. This is a simple USB-modem dongle that reminds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}