Video Asylum

Posted by Jazz Inmate (R) on June 24, 2008 at 20:44:56

In Reply to: RE: thanks for the suggestion posted by tunenut on June 24, 2008 at 14:58:17

But Tivo gives you free service for the first couple weeks and it becomes so convenient you can't live without it. When the grace period ends, even features like one-touch record are wiped out and you lose a lot of functionality. I was too spoiled by the service to give it up, so I signed up for three years (if you opt for paying for two years up front, you get a free year) and it came to an average of under $9 a month. I had just cancelled my DirecTV service at $50/month, so I was still saving more than $40 every month.

I think there is a way to record to your computer hard drive if you have the Tivo hooked up to a network router. From there, you can burn to DVD. Or you can just save shows you like on your Tivo hard drive. Since you don't watch HD content, you could save over 200 hours worth of content on the Tivo Series 3. Really a nice machine, as long as it's working.
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Call it, friendo.