{"id":83,"date":"2006-06-16T12:29:39","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T18:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.89.31.222\/~wkblogco\/?p=83"},"modified":"2008-04-11T15:46:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T21:46:45","slug":"should-i-turn-off-my-tivo-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2006\/06\/should-i-turn-off-my-tivo-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I turn off my TiVo at night?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We get this question often, in various forms. We have had callers who pull plug on their TiVo when they go sleep, and plug it back in when they wake up (or when they next want to watch TV). Others put the unit in \u201cStandby,\u201d assuming that the unit will stop recording.<\/p>\n

Not that it\u2019s worth much, but no one at weaKnees does any of this stuff. We all leave our TiVos on 24\/7 (and we all have them connected to a UPS<\/a>, too, just to beat it in a bit). Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n

First, the TiVo is meant to be running all the time. The thing is meant to allow you to \u201cset it and forget it\u201d (to steal a catchphrase from some infomercial that I remember watching long before I had a TiVo)\u2026so if you ask it record something that happens to be on at 1:30 a.m., it will record. If you shut the TiVo down, it can\u2019t record. So our advice: Never routinely pull the plug.<\/p>\n

Second, although \u201cStandby\u201d does serve a limited purpose, it does not cause the unit to stop recording. Rather, this function will do the following (all taken from TiVo\u2019s website):<\/p>\n

\u2022 Stops sending video and audio from the DVR to the TV.
\n\u2022 Causes the lights on the front of the unit to go out.
\n\u2022 Re-enables Parental Controls if they have been temporarily disabled.
\n\u2022 Enters KidZone Now Playing screen upon return from standby (if KidZone is on, and if your unit has this capability).
\n\u2022 Programs that are being recorded or are scheduled to record will still be recorded (if a program is being recorded the red light will turn on.)
\n\u2022 If you used an RF coaxial cable to connect a program source to the DVR and to connect the DVR to the TV, Standby mode provides RF pass through. This means you can watch channels on your RF program source while the DVR is in Standby mode.<\/p>\n

Bottom line: Unless you need to take advantage of one of the items listed below, just keep the unit on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We get this question often, in various forms. We have had callers who pull plug on their TiVo when they go sleep, and plug it back in when they wake up (or when they next want to watch TV). Others put the unit in \u201cStandby,\u201d assuming that the unit will stop recording. Not that it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}