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• How TiVo is messing up customer support.

  - by James Fleming

  Ok,  So I've gotten a TiVo and overall, I'm happy, but there have been issues and I suspect I've a defective unit. - Now the nice folks after many service calls were happy to swap it out, and to ensure continuity of service, they sent me a new unit (after a $109 deposit).  That was yesterday. Today, when we go to watch a little TV, and…

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• What is the best Handbrake preset for playing video files on Tivo Series 3

  - by deadprogrammer

  I have Mac2Tivo app running, and I can put video files on Tivo. Tivo supposedly supports avi and various other encoding, but half the time video's don't play. I'm pretty sure this has something to do with encoding options. So the question is, what is a good Handbrake preset to use for viewing stuff on Tivo?

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• TiVo Follow-up…Training Opportunities

  - by MightyZot

  A few posts ago I talked about my experience with TiVo Customer Service. While I didn’t receive bad service per se, I felt like the reps could have communicated better. I made the argument that it should be just as easy to leave a company as it is to engage with a company, even though my intention is to remain a TiVo fan. I worked for DataStorm…

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• Poor Customer Service Example

  - by MightyZot

  Lately I have been frustrated by examples of poor customer service. At least one is worth writing about because I don’t think companies realize the effects of their service policies on loyal customers. Bad Customer Service Example #1 Recently, I received an offer in the mail from my cable company, suddenLink. The offer was for an updated TiVo…

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• What's the most efficient method for moving and transcoding HD video from my Tivo to iTunes on OS X

  - by Bryan Schuetz

  I've got a Tivo with some HD recordings on it. I'd like to move those files over to my Mac and add them into iTunes. I'd like the move and transcoding to be as painless as possible, and I'd like to preserve the quality of the original HD recording. I've got a network connection to the Tivo and can move the files over but the real problem…

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• Is there an audio recording application/tool that has Tivo-like functionality?

  - by Bob

  I do a lot of live speech recording that requires me to quickly jump back and then transcribe a particular piece of the audio, then go back to recording again, while still maintaining the full audio file. So Far I've done this by splitting the audio and running one line to a recorder (for the whole audio), and one to my computer. Then I…

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• The Best Ways to Make Use of an Idle Computer

  - by Lori Kaufman

  If you leave your computer on when you are not using it, there are ways you can put your computer to use when it’s sitting idle. It can do scientific research, backup your data, and even look for signs of extraterrestrial life. How To Create a Customized Windows 7 Installation Disc With Integrated Updates How to Get Pro Features in…

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• What You Said: Cutting the Cable Cord

  - by Jason Fitzpatrick

  Earlier this week we asked you if you’d cut the cable and switched to alternate media sources to get your movie and TV fix. You responded and we’re back with a What You Said roundup. One of the recurrent themes in reader comments and one, we must admit, we didn’t expect to see with such prevalence, was the number of people who had…

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• Visual Studio 2008 to Team Foundation Server 2010

  - by tivo

  I have Visual Studio 2008 and I installed Team Explorer 2008 Team Explorer 2008 gives me the following error message when trying to connect a TFS 2010 server: TF31002: Unable to connect to this Team Foundation Server: servername.... Any thougths?

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• From Visual Studio 2008 to Team Foundation Server 2010

  - by tivo

  I have Visual Studio 2008 and I installed Team Explorer 2008 Team Explorer 2008 gives me the following error message when trying to connect a TFS 2010 server: TF31002: Unable to connect to this Team Foundation Server: servername.... Any thougths?

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• Looking for Remote Control that works with everything (even Windows 7 Media Center)

  - by T Reddy

  Using my Google-Fu, it seems that the most basic of things one gets with any DVR is the remote control. Had I known it would be difficult just to get a consumer IR receiver for Windows 7 I may not have bothered to build an HTPC. But too late, I already have the HTPC ready to go (minus the CETON card...) So I'm moving away from…

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• IP Micro-outages, telephone micro-outages, and CATV micro-outages

  - by Michael Graff

  This is a long and complicated question, mostly because it has been going on for 2.5 years without a solution in sight. It also is only one-third computer related, the other two-thirds are cable TV and cable-phone related. Background I have COX Communications for a cable provider, and we get Internet, digital cable TV, and…

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• Get HttpResponse from a page in the same web application

  - by tivo

  I have the following code: HttpWebRequest myHttpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://mycomputer/myWebApp/WebPage2.aspx"); myHttpWebRequest.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials; HttpWebResponse myHttpWebResponse = HttpWebResponse)myHttpWebRequest.GetResponse(); …

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• How to connect from Visual Studio 2008 to Team Foundation Server 2010

  - by tivo

  I have Visual Studio 2008 and I installed Team Explorer 2008 and Team Explorer 2010. My Team Explorer 2010 connects to Team Foundation Server 2010, but Team Explorer 2008 gives me the following error message: TF31002: Unable to connect to this Team Foundation Server: servername.... Any thougths?

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• How to get ICredential running user in asp.net

  - by tivo

  How do I get an ICredential object within my web application? I use Windows Authentication

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• Great Customer Service Example

  - by MightyZot

  A few days ago I wrote about what I consider a poor customer service interaction with TiVo, a company that I have been faithful to for the past 12 years or so. In that post I talked about how they helped me, but I felt like I was doing something wrong at the end of the call – when in reality I was just following through…

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• The Digital Video Recorder (DVR) is old news, the IP TV is the new generation.

  Its been more than 10 years since the first DVR came out in the US, the idea that you wont be wasting time by programming your video to record a show. Tivo was the first company to bring the idea of a hard disk to store your programs as well as the recurring shows recorded. Its being more than 10 years since that…

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• Google rachète une startup spécialisée dans les processeurs fondée par des ingénieurs ayant travaill

  Google suit les traces d'Apple et rachète Agnilux, une startup spécialisée dans les technologies des processeurs Google vient d'acquérir Agnilux une mystérieuse startup américaine spécialisée à la fois dans les technologies des serveurs et des processeurs pour un montant inconnu. …

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• How to set up my network/bridging using Apple Airport equipment?

  - by John

  I'd like to set up my network like this, and I want to make sure it's possible using the hardware I have. I think it should be... I've got my cable modem in one room. I want to plug it into an Apple Airport Express and create my wireless my wireless network here. The airport express…

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• What's the coolest hack you've seen or done?

  - by Robert S.

  As programmers, we've all put together a really cool program or pieced together some hardware in an interesting way to solve a problem. Today I was thinking about those hacks and how some of them are deprecated by modern technology (for example, you no longer need to hack your Tivo…

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• [Linux] Coding a GTK+ application without window manager?

  - by ShoX

  Hi, I want to code sth. that basically works like TiVo. Switch it on, you only see the menu or an output, so no underlying OS or anything else is directly visible to the user. So I want to use Linux as base. Can you suggest a good base distribution? Can I code a frontend…

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• Hardware needed to route between two networks over wireless

  - by AptDweller

  I recently rented an apartment about 100 yards from my brother's house. I have line of sight to his house and can pick up his home AP signal with one of my two laptops if I go out on my balcony (facing his house) or put the laptop by the window. The other laptop will…

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• Extending a home wireless network using two routers running tomato

  - by jalperin

  I have two Asus RT-N16 routers each flashed with Tomato (actually Tomato USB). UPSTAIRS: Router 'A' (located upstairs) is connected to the internet via the WAN port and connected via a LAN port to a 10/100/1000 switch (Switch A). Several desktops are also attached…

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• RouterLess, house-wired network using multiple powerline adapters

  - by Cliff Arnell

  related to the 'old days' of one ethernet cable tapped with Ts for each monitor.... my question might be very simple... or not. I have an over-the-air internet provider with a wire dish with a powered transceiver and cat5 cable out of the providers supplied modem. …

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• Network bandwidth usage dashboard?

  - by SkippyFlipjack

  I have a couple of wifi access points hooked up to my home network, one of which I keep unsecured for some development I do; there are only a couple other homes within range and they've got their own wifi so it's not a big concern. I also have a Sonos system, Tivo,…

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