Automation Adventures

I just received an email from TiVo, announcing the availability of a new HD DVR: the TiVo HD XL DVR.
The product specifications list this unit as:

Save up to 150 hours of HD programming at one time
TV signal sources: digital and analog cable, digital and analog antenna. Satellite NOT supported.
Replaces your cable box using one or [...]

Last Thursday, I got sick.
I don’t know if it was a late reaction to all the holiday food, travel, family stress, or whatever. But waking up Thursday morning, I felt so miserable, that I was convinced my co-workers would be off much better without me kvetching at the office.
So I stayed home. After some sleep, [...]

The newest offering from TiVo, the HD DVR, might suffer from a problem when your cable provider uses Switched Digital Video (SDV).
This blog post on Lauren Weinstein’s blog signals a problem that might prevent the new HD TiVo’s, that are using CableCARDs to receive the channels, from receiving all channels when your cable provider is [...]

When Apple TV was launched, arguably the biggest complaint was that you couldn’t record your own shows with it. Now it seems Apple is thinking about doing a HD DVR, but the limitation seems to be the internal 40Gb hard disk.
Enter the USB ports on the Apple TV. What if you could hook up an [...]

TiVo Lovers has an article describing a new feature of the TiVo, Amazon Unbox Video Downloads on Tivo. This service allows you to send Unbox content you get from Amazon (either purchased or as part of a special offer) directly to your TiVo, allowing you to watch it on your regular TV.
Not all content is [...]