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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Saturday, October 19, 2019 - 2:37 pm 
that used to be true when I could only dvr 2 shows at a time, but they upgraded and I can do 7 shows at a time now.do you have a limit on the number of shows?
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Saturday, October 19, 2019 - 3:36 pm
Yes, I can only record two shows at a time.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Monday, October 21, 2019 - 2:57 pm
the over lap comes in if you are taping a show after the previous one so you have the two extended ones and a new one taping at the same time.
so I used to tape a lot of not abc, cbs NBC shows and many of them run twice a night, I tape one of them out of main time to reduce conflict at 2 or 3 in the morning.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 4:45 pm
Our tv cable keeps going in and out the past few days. It's really annoying. Considering how much they just keep going up on me, it should be perfect. If it wasn't for my small tv hooked up to the antenna, I would be missing Survivor tonight.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 5:39 pm
Called the cable company and they said they will send a tech out on Saturday! Bet you it will be perfect then, it always is.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Wednesday, October 23, 2019 - 11:37 pm
Hecka, has it been rainy where you are? I used to have that problem sometimes when we had bad weather. Or maybe a day or two after. It ended up having something to do with where the cable entered the house. Water would get in there and mess up the connection. It took a very long time before the cable company figured out was wrong. In fact, i don't think they did. A friend who was an electrician told us and we told the cable guy.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 9:33 am
Heckagirl, do you have a good working antenna? Rooftop?
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 5:49 pm
No rain. Ironically, it's supposed to start tomorrow, and last most of the weekend. They asked me if I could bypass the splitter, but the box in the bedroom doesn't have one. Obviously and outside problem. The thing is the squeaky wheel gets the grease. It came back on this morning, been fine ever since. When I left for work, saw an outside tech on the next street, fixing the problem.
Don't technically have an outdoor antenna. Many years ago, when they were switching from analog to digital, they told everyone to buy a converter box. I did, that is what I have been watching the local channels on, when the cable is out.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 6:13 pm
I love how they blame you and then when they test the system, they figure out it's their problem, but they never call to apologize.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Thursday, October 24, 2019 - 7:27 pm
Question: I watch OTA TV via rooftop antenna (top of 5 story condo bldg) through TiVo which I absolutely love! All my stations are back in place with programming in TiVo schedule after rescan last Friday due to FCC. But I'm getting picture for a station that shows in the schedule but no information for it. It's channel 21-1 if it matters. Currently airing a high school football game in Las Vegas?? Seems to be low level sports programming, but I don't know. I'm in Chicago 'burbs. I'll call TiVo tomorrow. Anyone know?
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Monday, December 07, 2020 - 4:16 pm
Bought a LG DVD player today Model # DP132. It says it has USB recording. I looked up the manual online and I don't see anywhere it says that it records or how you would go about it. My old combo VCR/DVD player would also record. It bit the ust though, why I bought the new one.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, December 07, 2020 - 4:21 pm
I looked up that model, and apparently the "direct recording" is something different than it sounds like and only applies to music cds.
A powerful and easy to use function that allows you to directly extract audio tracks from CDs & transfer them to a USB device. Just insert a CD and make your own MP3 music file collection.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Monday, December 07, 2020 - 7:30 pm
Thanks that's false advertising though.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Monday, December 07, 2020 - 8:36 pm
Can you return it, Hecka? If you bought it online, and the reason you are returning is "Item not as advertised", you should get them to refund AND pay return postage.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Tuesday, December 22, 2020 - 7:20 pm
No, I bought it at Best Buy. It's doing okay so far. No recording yet. My brother gave me a Roku. What can I do for free?
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Thursday, December 24, 2020 - 6:35 pm
So my brothers are trying to get me to cut the cable cord. If it keeps going up, I will have to. Since my husband died, I don't have any money for this stuff. So, I have a digital converter box that I bought back when they were telling everyone all analog tv was going to be switched over to digital. I get all local over the air channels on this box. So will a Tablo OTA video recorder work with the converter box? That's what one of my brother's has. He says you have to have an antenna for it to work. That's basically what the converter box is. BTW, I had never heard of a Tablo recorder before now. I was thinking I would have to buy a Tivo. I was looking to see what Roku connections the Roku has. I don't see any connections for an antenna or the converter box. My cable bill just went up $30 a month, so can't afford that. Basically just want to record Young and the Restless every day. Shouldn't be a problem since it comes on CBS local channel. Anyone know?
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, December 24, 2020 - 6:37 pm
Do you have an hdtv?
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Thursday, December 24, 2020 - 6:37 pm
The $30 more a month makes it over $100/month now.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Thursday, December 24, 2020 - 6:40 pm
Not sure. Both my tvs have HDMI connections, and some of the apps that the Roku has. They connect to the Wi-Fi, as does the Roku.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Thursday, December 24, 2020 - 6:44 pm
Are they flat and rectangular tvs? Or the old big square box kind?
If they are the flat rectangular, that's an HDTV and you don't need a digital converter. You just hook a $10 antenna to the same place you put the cable into it right now (the coax cable). On my antenna, I get about 40 channels in HD. I keeps antennas for when cable goes out.
eta: ooops, I keep forgetting I use the HDMI now for cable tv.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, December 24, 2020 - 7:36 pm
Hecka, watching CBS online is even easier than recording it. I watch a lot of CBS shows one day or more after the show airs on television on cbs.com. You probably already have a cbs.com account from watching Big Brother. If you have a smartTV, then you can probably get internet on it? I just watch CBS shows on my computer monitor a day late for free. If you don't get around to watching within about four episodes behind, they go to subscriber All Access, which is still a lot cheaper than paying for cable.
If you break down and decide to keep the cable, you go into the cable store (or maybe phone call also works) and cry and tell them you can no longer afford cable, and they reduce your rate for a couple years until they sneak it back up on you again.
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Friday, December 25, 2020 - 10:12 am
yes, HDTV's then. I still don't understand.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Friday, December 25, 2020 - 10:43 am
ok, I've spent some time preparing this explanation. I hope it explains it ok.
If you have an HDTV that's not one of the old originals without a tuner, and in order to get crisp clear high definition local channels, all you need is a $10 antenna like this. There are lot's of inexpensive ones to choose from. Here is an example of one.
https://www.amazon.com/ANTAN-DVB-T655VA-Support-Freeview-Channels/dp/B085S4LGMS/
And you plug the antenna into your HDTV in the port that looks like the one the green arrow is pointing to in the picture.
Then you go into settings on the TV itself and scan for channels.
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But, if you want to add a TiVo or other dvr to record over the air channels, you do this.
You put the TiVo between the antenna and the TV, and you do the channel scanning from the TiVo instead.
So it would be:
TV<---->TiVo<---->Antenna
This would be a set-up to record all over the air high definition channels. I have over 40.
I hope that helps! Merry Christmas!
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Friday, December 25, 2020 - 11:06 am
I have had TiVo since May '04. I love it. It is the best! I very very very rarely have a problem. Good phone help if I do. Mostly unplug / plug TiVo from electric fixes it.
I am in a condo bldg that was built in the mid '70s -- pre cable. So there is connection to a rooftop antenna which is how I watch network programs and the lesser digital channels.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-02-2002
| Saturday, December 26, 2020 - 10:35 am
If you've been a long time cable customer, call and ask for their Loyalty Department and tell them you need a deal. Sometimes that can really help! I call every time my current deal expires and my bill goes up. Usually every 2 years. Good luck in whichever way you go.
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