What TV shows do you Tivo?

Flint · 02-01-2008, 09:25 AM

Is "Tivo" a universal verb, like "Google" now? And if so, do you capitalize it? I capitalize Google, but when I say Google, I mean Google. When I say Tivo, I mean Direct TV. Oh, btw, yeah I sold out and got a TV signal. Please disregard all my previous anti-TV rants. Netflix was too much work (ha), and we also got sick of our baby DVDs. Direct TV has a "Baby First" channel that is commercial free and has educational-type stuff running.

Anyway... My favorite stuff I record is Classic Albums, Family Guy, Futurama (before they stopped running on Cartoon Network), Star Trek: Next Generation (before they stopped running on G4), Mythbusters, and Antiques Roadshow. More "Adult Swim" shows like Xavier: Renegade Angel, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, Metalocalypse. Oh, also the Sarah Silverman show. Other stuff like educational documentaries and History Channel/Discovery type stuff. My wife also records Charmed and Friday the 13th: the Series.

A disproportionate amount of the stuff we record is old network TV reruns. There's too many channels, and I get overwhelmed looking for things to watch, so I just stick to what I know. We got the movie channels for free for three months, but they suck. Useless.

Shawnee123 · 02-01-2008, 09:29 AM

Do you need cable for Tivo?

I really must see this Sarah Silverman show; my older brother told me this weekend she reminds him of me.

Flint · 02-01-2008, 09:31 AM

Absolutely. You're a total Sarah Silverman.

glatt · 02-01-2008, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Flint

Anyway... My favorite stuff I record is .... Star Trek: Next Generation

I'd noticed when you started a couple TNG threads. I thought it was unusual, because it's a fairly old show, and I don't remember the episodes that well. I had to Google the "Darmok and Jilad at Tanagra" thread you started. I knew I had heard that quote before, but couldn't place it.

Now it makes sense why you are posting TNG stuff 15 years later.

glatt · 02-01-2008, 09:39 AM

Is there some sort of Tivo like device that doesn't require a service and monthly fee? When the signal switches over in a year, my VCR will make a nice paperweight. Gotta start planning ahead.

We tape some shows that are on too late or that conflict with others we watch.
My wife is a Grey's Anatomy fan, so we tape either that or the Office and watch the other later. The kids tape Fetch with Ruff Ruffman, a good educational science show on PBS, and watch it when their homework is done.

lookout123 · 02-01-2008, 09:54 AM

I have Cox *snicker*. With that I have their DVR, same damn thing as TiVo if I understand correctly. Their are only 2 things I record on a regular basis - Life (if the writers ever come back) and Arsenal FC games (when Fox soccer doesn't have a hard on for Chelsea games and can be bothered to show something else).

I like the DVR more for what it does when we are watching tv. With the kids it is pretty hard to sit down and actually watch a whole show without being interrupted. It is great that I can pause the show or rewind back to something I missed. I loves me DVR.

Shawnee123 · 02-01-2008, 10:02 AM

Would someone with Tivo please watch the end of Two and a Half Men and tell me what that quick little sheet of writing that flashes when the show ends says? It drives me crazy, and every time I watch (at least the syndicated ones, don't know about original eps) I think "damn, I could pause this with a DVR"

lookout123 · 02-01-2008, 10:04 AM

i used to feel the same way when Dharma and Greg first hit the airwaves years ago. The page at the end was usually just some random ramblings, different every week. Pretty funny really.

Clodfobble · 02-01-2008, 02:35 PM

We TiVo literally everything we watch. (Which is to say, we record it--I'm also one of those people who uses the verb TiVo when I don't have a TiVo branded system.) Between us and the kids it's dozens of shows; I couldn't name them all.

Glatt, you would be interested in the system we have, if you're at all inclined to learn a little Linux. It's a homemade box that runs freeware called MythTV. Me, I don't know jack squat about it, but there are apparently really good help forums out there, that's what Mr. Clod has used every time there was something outside of his Linux knowledge. Gotta love the friendliness of open-source communities. Aside from the initial cost of the basic computer you build--$300 total maybe?--there is a service fee to download the TV schedules so it knows when things are on, but it's only like $15 a year.

Flint · 02-01-2008, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

--there is a service fee to download the TV schedules so it knows when things are on, but it's only like $15 a year.

I'd like to have something like that. The Search function on Direct TV is a suck, and can't find stuff that I know is there.

Clodfobble · 02-01-2008, 04:16 PM

My biggest problem with it is it updates its schedule about every two weeks--and the end result is you can't choose a show to record unless it's on in the next two weeks. Now, if you already have it in the list, it'll just hold onto the title until next season without a problem, but if there's a new show starting soon, you have to remember to add it no more than two weeks beforehand. Yes, I sometimes have a problem remembering to do something for two whole weeks. Shut up. Case in point: there's a show the kids want to watch that's starting sometime in "spring of '08," so I'll have to just keep checking back to see if the title has shown up yet. I just know I'm going to miss it.

Flint · 02-01-2008, 04:17 PM

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I just know I'm going to miss it.

Well, with an attitude like that... . . .

Clodfobble · 02-01-2008, 04:24 PM

The upside is Disney reruns their crap constantly for months on end, so I know I'll get it eventually.

zippyt · 02-01-2008, 07:35 PM

we have had Direct Tv and Tivo for YEARS , It would be HARD to live with out it any more ,SAD but TRUE !!

at Xmas we upgraded to HD with the DVR Plus , AWESOME picture for the HD channels , Great picture for the Non HD channels ,

As to what we record , well my wife has a soap that tapes Every week day ( how the HELL do you think I talked her into a DVR in the FIRST place !!) , and I am BAD about finding some thing Obscure that will tape at 4:30 am on some weird channel , then 2 weeks later be looking thru the ToDo list and wounder WHO the HELL set THAT up to tape ??!!

Oh Flint if you have TiVo Brand box it will STOP working with DirectTv in a few months , or so I hear .

Stormieweather · 02-01-2008, 08:29 PM

With two jobs and three children, I don't ever get to watch my shows when they're scheduled. The ones I have set to record are - Without a Trace, The Closer, Saving Grace, and Lost.

I record movies for the younger kids and they play them over and over...101 Dalmations, Nightmare Before Christmas, Cars, High School Musical, Shrek, Stuart Little...are a few I can think of off the top of my head.

And no, it's not Tivo, but a part of our cable service/box.

02-01-2008, 09:25 AM	#1
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	What TV shows do you Tivo? Is "Tivo" a universal verb, like "Google" now? And if so, do you capitalize it? I capitalize Google, but when I say Google, I mean Google. When I say Tivo, I mean Direct TV. Oh, btw, yeah I sold out and got a TV signal. Please disregard all my previous anti-TV rants. Netflix was too much work (ha), and we also got sick of our baby DVDs. Direct TV has a "Baby First" channel that is commercial free and has educational-type stuff running. Anyway... My favorite stuff I record is Classic Albums, Family Guy, Futurama (before they stopped running on Cartoon Network), Star Trek: Next Generation (before they stopped running on G4), Mythbusters, and Antiques Roadshow. More "Adult Swim" shows like Xavier: Renegade Angel, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, Metalocalypse. Oh, also the Sarah Silverman show. Other stuff like educational documentaries and History Channel/Discovery type stuff. My wife also records Charmed and Friday the 13th: the Series. A disproportionate amount of the stuff we record is old network TV reruns. There's too many channels, and I get overwhelmed looking for things to watch, so I just stick to what I know. We got the movie channels for free for three months, but they suck. Useless. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

02-01-2008, 09:31 AM	#3
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Absolutely. You're a total Sarah Silverman. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

02-01-2008, 09:54 AM	#6
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	I have Cox snicker. With that I have their DVR, same damn thing as TiVo if I understand correctly. Their are only 2 things I record on a regular basis - Life (if the writers ever come back) and Arsenal FC games (when Fox soccer doesn't have a hard on for Chelsea games and can be bothered to show something else). I like the DVR more for what it does when we are watching tv. With the kids it is pretty hard to sit down and actually watch a whole show without being interrupted. It is great that I can pause the show or rewind back to something I missed. I loves me DVR. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

02-01-2008, 10:04 AM	#8
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	i used to feel the same way when Dharma and Greg first hit the airwaves years ago. The page at the end was usually just some random ramblings, different every week. Pretty funny really. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

02-01-2008, 07:35 PM	#14
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	we have had Direct Tv and Tivo for YEARS , It would be HARD to live with out it any more ,SAD but TRUE !! at Xmas we upgraded to HD with the DVR Plus , AWESOME picture for the HD channels , Great picture for the Non HD channels , As to what we record , well my wife has a soap that tapes Every week day ( how the HELL do you think I talked her into a DVR in the FIRST place !!) , and I am BAD about finding some thing Obscure that will tape at 4:30 am on some weird channel , then 2 weeks later be looking thru the ToDo list and wounder WHO the HELL set THAT up to tape ??!! Oh Flint if you have TiVo Brand box it will STOP working with DirectTv in a few months , or so I hear . __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

02-01-2008, 09:29 AM	#2
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Do you need cable for Tivo? I really must see this Sarah Silverman show; my older brother told me this weekend she reminds him of me.

02-01-2008, 09:39 AM	#5
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Is there some sort of Tivo like device that doesn't require a service and monthly fee? When the signal switches over in a year, my VCR will make a nice paperweight. Gotta start planning ahead. We tape some shows that are on too late or that conflict with others we watch. My wife is a Grey's Anatomy fan, so we tape either that or the Office and watch the other later. The kids tape Fetch with Ruff Ruffman, a good educational science show on PBS, and watch it when their homework is done.

02-01-2008, 10:02 AM	#7
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Would someone with Tivo please watch the end of Two and a Half Men and tell me what that quick little sheet of writing that flashes when the show ends says? It drives me crazy, and every time I watch (at least the syndicated ones, don't know about original eps) I think "damn, I could pause this with a DVR"

02-01-2008, 02:35 PM	#9
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	We TiVo literally everything we watch. (Which is to say, we record it--I'm also one of those people who uses the verb TiVo when I don't have a TiVo branded system.) Between us and the kids it's dozens of shows; I couldn't name them all. Glatt, you would be interested in the system we have, if you're at all inclined to learn a little Linux. It's a homemade box that runs freeware called MythTV. Me, I don't know jack squat about it, but there are apparently really good help forums out there, that's what Mr. Clod has used every time there was something outside of his Linux knowledge. Gotta love the friendliness of open-source communities. Aside from the initial cost of the basic computer you build--$300 total maybe?--there is a service fee to download the TV schedules so it knows when things are on, but it's only like $15 a year.

02-01-2008, 04:16 PM	#11
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	My biggest problem with it is it updates its schedule about every two weeks--and the end result is you can't choose a show to record unless it's on in the next two weeks. Now, if you already have it in the list, it'll just hold onto the title until next season without a problem, but if there's a new show starting soon, you have to remember to add it no more than two weeks beforehand. Yes, I sometimes have a problem remembering to do something for two whole weeks. Shut up. Case in point: there's a show the kids want to watch that's starting sometime in "spring of '08," so I'll have to just keep checking back to see if the title has shown up yet. I just know I'm going to miss it.

02-01-2008, 04:24 PM	#13
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	The upside is Disney reruns their crap constantly for months on end, so I know I'll get it eventually.

02-01-2008, 08:29 PM	#15
Stormieweather Wearing her bitch boots Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Floriduh Posts: 1,181	With two jobs and three children, I don't ever get to watch my shows when they're scheduled. The ones I have set to record are - Without a Trace, The Closer, Saving Grace, and Lost. I record movies for the younger kids and they play them over and over...101 Dalmations, Nightmare Before Christmas, Cars, High School Musical, Shrek, Stuart Little...are a few I can think of off the top of my head. And no, it's not Tivo, but a part of our cable service/box. __________________ "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi

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