How to Do Everything with Your TiVo [Paperback]

Todd Carter (Author), Michael Bellomo (Author)

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Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (Oct 13 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0072231408
ISBN-13: 978-0072231403
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.5 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 612 g

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Turn 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!

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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

About the authors: Todd W. Carter is an avid DVR user and full-time freelance writer who writes mostly about business and technology. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Detroit Free Press, MSNBC.com, Home Office Computing magazine, and other outlets. He is the author of several computer books. Michael Bellomo, MBA, has written nine books involving technology and how it relates to modern business. He is the co-author of McGraw-Hill/Osborne’s forthcoming book, eBay Your Business: Maximize Sales and Get Results.

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TiVos come with a lot of goodies, most of which you'll need to get your TiVo hooked up. Read the first page

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Amazon.com: 2.8 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews)

35 of 38 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars many TiVo uses, Jan 21 2005

By W Boudville - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: How to Do Everything with Your TiVo (Paperback)

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 its disk. Very good for the heavy user.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars thank goodness for this guide, Nov 7 2005

By Frank Crane "Frank Crane" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: How to Do Everything with Your TiVo (Paperback)

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.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars ok not great only thing I really use is the commercial skip code, April 24 2007

By Brian Krinsky "iostream1" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: How to Do Everything with Your TiVo (Paperback)

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. ;-)

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