I can't believe I never pushed that button. That will be handy.

My wife hates it when I 30 second skip forward and instant reply back to skip commercials; The sound blips between the steps are bothersome to her.

Of course, the TiVo with 5.2 software doesn't honor select-play-select-3-0-select, or didn't on my first try, so...

Can't you turn the sounds off ? I think there is a level adjustmnet anyway. Whenever they do an update I can never get it to work the first time either. Then I panic and think they took it out but eventually I get it to work.

Not the TiVo sound effects, the sound from the recording.

So push mute on the remote first

I also make sure to bring up the TiVo menu when I'm done watching TV. I think that this has the effect of telling the TiVo that you're not watching TV now, and lets it change channels if it wants without asking.

Sounds like another man with a "JP1"-connector fetish....

On my RS 15-2116, I use the "+100" button for the "Skip 30s"; what are you using on the 1994?

what are you using on the 1994?

I chose the "Stop" button on the 15-1994. Only in Tivo mode of course, where "stop" really has little meaning.

And yeah, the JP1 stuff is freaking awesome.

Bitt, why don't you just go into Stand By?

On a side OT note, the Home Media Option (HMO) is finally coming to the DirecTivos so you'll be able to stream mp3s to your Tivo on a home network and send shows from one Tivo to another. They just sent me a survey about it. I recommended having the two (or more?) Tivo's talk to eachother and work like a 4-tuner Tivo by merging the Season Passes and Wishlists. Now, I have several shows recording on both Tivos in case I feel like watching a show in another room. No need to do this anymore with the HMO. But what'd be really cool is to have conflicts resolved by using a tuner (and storage) on another Tivo if it is available.

Is there a quick way to get to standby? Maybe on a newer remote? Plus, that'd be one more step to get it back going when I do want to watch. Unless it provides something not aware of, I'll stand by my previous thoughts that standby seems useless on the TiVo.

Is there a quick way to get to standby? Maybe on a newer remote?

Yes, on my 15-1994, when I loaded the Tivo profile with the JP1 interface, the power button puts the thing instantly into standby. It's a toggle, so the power button works like a power button on any remote as you would expect. I'm sure it's got discrete codes, too, I just haven't needed to use anything like that.

If it gets you into a situation where it's guaranteed to not think you're watching, and so can record suggestions, that is a use, and thus fails to meet every definition of useless I've seen.

Annoying, I'll grant easily.

It turns off that little green light on the front of the case.

Yeah, I think standby is useful because then it has free reign of both tuners when it's in that mode.

Is it possible to set up a specific DO NOT RECORD match?

It is not.

One of the best, and most often overlooked features of the TiVo software is the "View Recording History" selection in the "To Do" list.

Not only will this tell you why TiVo didn't record programs you thought it would record, it tells you why TiVo is not going to record programs you want for two weeks into the future, allowing you to resolve conflicts.

tanstaafl.

But this wouldn't really help Tony. Since he doesn't want Buffy as a season pass, the recording "future history" won't say why future episodes won't be recorded.

*edit*
Tony, the other solution to your problem is this (which I'll just offer in case you didn't know about it): when you have a show where you aren't concerned with getting all the episodes, go ahead and add the season pass. As you add more season passes, go into the season pass manager and move the pass for that show to the bottom of the list. That will always set the show for the lowest priority. From there on, it's a simple issue of deleting episodes you don't want from the Now Playing list.

Yeah, that's what I think the best solution is.

One problem that this may get you into is the 28 day rule. Unless you tell it to record all shows with duplicates.

28 day rule.

Ummm... what is that?

The 28 day rule, if TiVo has already recorded an episode of a show within the last 28 days then it will not record it again unless you set the SP/ARWL to record all episodes or if the show only has generic guide data like South Park the past few weeks.

You should also know this: If you setup an ARWL for "The Wire" set to record FRO you have 14 days from the Original airdate to get the episode. This is nice because if you know of shows that are Shared-Window/Repurposed Network Television if can help you with conflicts.

SP = Season Pass
ARWL = Auto Recording WishList
FRO = First Run Only

Makes sense, thanks!

Re: Shared-Window/Repurposed Network Television if can help you with conflicts.

I just KNEW that soon enough, somebody would find a way to make something as intuitive and easy to use as the Tivo interface into something that takes 3 pages of reading just to know what the hell they are talking about (not to mention the process of actually doing it!)

This isn't directed at you Attack. I think it's cool you found it!

That is nothing, you should try doing extraction and burning to DVD

You aren't kidding. It's a whole lot of fun and a whole lot of no fun.

But when my mom missed ER this week and I was heading home for Thanksgiving, it was a simple process of getting the .ty file, converting the file while cutting out the ads, then importing them into a DVD creator.

Getting to that point was a pain in the ass, but it's worth it