Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 621.38833 EAN: 9780072231403 ISBN: 0072231408 Label: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: May 26, 2004 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Sales Rank: 363731 Studio: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Product DescriptionTurn on your TV! This helpful resource helps you select the best TiVo service based on your needs, then shows you how to set up your TiVo, watch live television with your TiVo, record programs, hook TiVo up to your home network, remotely schedule programs to be recorded over the Internet, use multiple TiVos, and much more!
Maximize and expand your television viewing using TiVo and this easy-to-use guide. You’ll find step-by-step instructions on how to connect your TiVo to your media center, pause and rewind live TV, enjoy instant replay, and hook your TiVo up with your wired or wireless home network.
You’ll even learn how to give slideshows of your photographs on your TV screen. Plus, get helpful TiVo hacks such as replacing your full hard drive and finding remote control shortcuts.
* Search for and record programs * Rate programs and change your rating * Edit, delete, or change the priority of your Season * Passes using the Season Pass Manager * Display and share your photo library using Acrobat * Photoshop Album or Lifescape Inc.’s Picasa * Schedule recordings remotely on the Internet * Set up two TiVos and use the multi-room viewing feature to transfer programs between your TiVos * Record shows and even home movies onto DVD using your combination TiVo-DVD recorder * Hack your TiVo by removing the TiVo hard drive and installing it onto your PC * Enable 30-second skip and backdoor mode
What Others Say
ok not great only thing I really use is the commercial skip code
Ok not great only thing I really use is the commercial skip code which you can find online anyway. If you know nothing about Tivo then this can be a handy reference but if you are more advanced then you can find more and better info on the web with a Google search. And if your that advanced you're probably not reading this review anyway. ;-)
Only the routine.
How to Do Everything with Your TiVo (How to Do Everything), while very informative offers no more information than the users manual. If you're looking for something more advanced look elsewhere.
thank goodness for this guide
Well written and detailed book. This text enabled me to easily upgrade my TiVo's disk, something my box's manual didn't go into in enough dept and simplicity.
many TiVo uses
You should find this an easy read, in learning how to effectively use your TiVo. The company has spent a lot of time in trying to make the user experience as simple as possible.
Carter gives hardware tips as to various accessory items you might want to hook up your TiVo to. Plus, you can find out how to use various listings offered by third parties. Notably AOL, which offers a neat Remote Scheduling of its TV listings. Talk about convenient.
For those of you with DVD players, and especially recorders, sections of the book describe how you can hook these up to the TiVo and get everything working with each other. And remembering that a TiVo is a special type of personal computer, you get instructions on how to upgrade ... Read More
