Diagnosing A TiVo Hard Drive Failure

My Series 3 TiVo has been acting up as of late.  The other night I was watching Mad Men (isn’t it a great show?) and my TiVo froze and rebooted twice!  I’ve had it freeze on me a couple of times over the past month so, when it rebooted twice within one show I decided [...]

TiVo Blog Mailbag (iPhone Remote, Networking, Infomercials, DirectTV, USB)

Here’s a roundup of some of the questions that I recently recieved via this site’s feedback form.  Feel free to chime in via a comment….

Jan Wrote (via YouTube):

This must be the series 3? I have a series 2 here at the house and was wondering what would happen if I plugged in one of my [...]

TiVo Blog Mailbag

Here’s a roundup of some the questions that I received over the past couple of days.  As always, feel free to send in a question, comment or suggestion using this site’s feedback form or via Twitter.

Luke Wrote:

Are you experiencing any digital “glitching” on SDV channels? It seemed really bad the first day and not as [...]

TiVo Blog Help Requests

Over the past couple of days I’ve received the following help requests via this site’s “contact me” form. Rather than answer each of these questions with a personal email, I’ve decided to post my response here so that hopefully it will benefit somebody else. If you’d like to add anything to my response [...]

Having Trouble With Your CableCARD Enabled TiVo DVR? Call TiVo’s CableCARD hotline

The WeaKnees blog recently alerted me to the fact that TiVo has a “CableCARD hotline”.  The hotline is available Monday-Sunday from 6:00 AM – 9:00 PM Pacific.  According to TiVo’s website, the hotline is answered by TiVo support representatives who have been trained on how to troubleshoot CableCARD issues.

We have set up a hotline to [...]

TiVo Blog Feedback Roundup

Over the past couple of days I’ve received the following feedback via this site’s “contact me” form.  Rather then answer each of these questions with a personal email, I’ve decided to post my response here so that hopefully it will benefit somebody else.  If you’d like to add anything to my response please feel free [...]

TiVo Server Error (The Parameter Is Incorrect), My TiVo Recordings On A Mapped Drive

Recently I went ahead and moved my “My Documents” folder onto a mapped drive.  After doing this, I started to receive the following error which prevented my computer from starting TiVo Desktop: “The parameter is incorrect”. Luckily, a couple of threads on TiVo’s support forum helped me get rid of the error and also informed [...]

TiVo Tip: Program Your TiVo Glo Remote Via The “Learning” Feature

Here’s a feature that I didn’t know was possible. According to a TiVo.com knowledgebase article, the TiVo Glo remote (Series 3 remote) is a “learning remote” which is capable of being programmed via another A/V remote. Essentially what this means is that you can program your glo remote by pointing it at another [...]

TiVo Guide “To be announced”, Now That’s What I Call Customer Service!

Recently I went ahead and added my local Fox affiliate (33-1) to my Series 3 as a new OTA (over the air) channel. Right away, I noticed that my TiVo didn’t have guide data for Fox 33-1. Instead, my S3 would display “To be announced” whenever I accessed the guide data for this channel.

After doing [...]

How To Setup A Series 2 TiVo

Mahalo.com has published a rather extensive guide on how to setup a Series 2 TiVo.  If for some reason you don’t find this guide helpful, you could head on over to TiVo’s website where you can watch a number of videos that will walk you through the process.

In reality, it really is extremely easy to [...]