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yendi ([personal profile] yendi) wrote2005-07-12 09:02 am
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Tivo notes, good and bad

Bad: Our Tivo modem is clearly injured, possibly fatally. When I got home yesterday, [livejournal.com profile] shadesong mentioned to me that incoming calls all went straight to a busy signal (which should never happen, since we have voice mail). After much troubleshooting, I unplugged the Tivo, and everything worked just fine. That said, the Tivo made a test call just fine. If it can still make the data calls (it had already done so yesterday, so no way to test until today), we can just plug it in twice a week or so and have it call in. If it can't make the calls at all, we've got two weeks before it enters the Great Tivo Graveyard. :-( I've had my Tivo for over five years, dammit.

On the plus side, we watched a couple of shows, including the latest Robot Chicken. And we noticed that the latest Harvey Birdman commercial has a "real" phone number. It's 877-MANBIRD, and I highly recommend that any fan of the show calls it. :-)

Also watched the season premiere of the new Surreal Life, which has some interesting potential, mainly due to the fact that the cast seems to be the least likable one ever (and I coined a term last night: Sexual Harassment Pinchot!).
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[identity profile] alladinsane.livejournal.com 2005-07-12 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Havent caught the show...is Balki the harasser or harassee?

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[personal profile] yendi 2005-07-12 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
The harasser. He's basically the anti-Coulier.

[identity profile] alladinsane.livejournal.com 2005-07-12 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
ah...well remember in Mepos(sp?) there was only his grandmother and his flock of sheep...he prob wants something beside BAAAAAAA...

Besides, he saw last series and saw Peter Brady bag a babe...maybe he figures it'll work for him...
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[personal profile] yendi 2005-07-12 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Could be, especially since the woman he went after was Janice Dickinson, from the same Top Model show (although with a lot more plastic).

[identity profile] alladinsane.livejournal.com 2005-07-12 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
He should remember than Adrienne wanted to bag a Brady and she was the harasser...

[identity profile] shadesong.livejournal.com 2005-07-12 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Sexual Harassment Pinchot!

With Kung-Fu Grip!

[identity profile] eng1ne.livejournal.com 2005-07-12 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
You can go into the settings and turn off "auto-detect if phone line is in use", that will tell Tivo to disable the modem until it's time to make its daily call. The drawback is it may try dialling out while you are on the phone.

The other option is to break down and get a Tivo NIC. http://www.9thtee.com is the place I direct most people to get their mods. Unless you have a DirectTivo, a NIC will free your dvr from the phone line and make downloads a snap.
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[personal profile] yendi 2005-07-12 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably not worth the effort of the NIC, given how old this one is. But I'll see about the Auto-detect. Thanks!

[identity profile] heathrow.livejournal.com 2005-07-12 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You can return it to Tivo to have them work on it. When our modem died in our old Series 1 (way out of warranty), it cost only $100 to have them fix it.
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[personal profile] yendi 2005-07-12 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
*nod* But if I'm going to spend the $100, I might as well buy a new Tivo.

[identity profile] heathrow.livejournal.com 2005-07-12 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Understood...see if TiVo will let you transfer the lifetime subscription from old to new?

[identity profile] shadesong.livejournal.com 2005-07-12 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
We don't have a lifetime subscription. We'll probably get one on the new TiVo, though.

[identity profile] heathrow.livejournal.com 2005-07-12 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh! Then getting a new Tivo is absolutely the right way to go. I think they're offering a stupidly good deal on new Tivo's now. (http://www.tivo.com/2.1.asp)

[identity profile] shadesong.livejournal.com 2005-07-12 02:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Shiny...

We're hoping to hold out til our anniversary, as Dad sorta promised us a TiVo DVD recorder. Jokingly, as at the time they cost a thousand bucks. But now that they're cheaper and the TiVo might be deceased...

[identity profile] heathrow.livejournal.com 2005-07-12 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Completely understand the cash thing. :)

However, life without TiVo? EEEEEEEEEK!

[identity profile] shadesong.livejournal.com 2005-07-12 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. If it is fried, if it can't pull down new data, we're getting our asses over to Sears pronto.

[identity profile] quillismightier.livejournal.com 2005-07-12 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Personally, I didn't think Pinchot did anything wrong outside of being a slight perv and rather touchy feely. I've known guys sort of like him and they're generally harmless. Though the, "we're going to hook up" was a bit creepy.

Janice just took it way to damn far. That woman has drama whore written all over her face. I wish Pepa would have let her leave.

I like watching Celebrity Fit Club and The Surreal Life because I like watching celebs break down. It's a sick fetish of mine. I think the Surreal Life would be even better if they tossed a few ordinary folks in with the celebs.
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[personal profile] yendi 2005-07-12 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
On the one hand, I did think he was a bit over-gropy (although Janice's overreaction was ludicrous), but it's also hard to tell how it was edited together. Then again, his comments about how good the sex would be with him definitely came across as a little bit on the excessive side of the self-assured plateau.

Dickinson definitely comes across as Queen Bitch. Sort of a combination of the worst traits of Da Brat and Bridgitte Neilson.

[identity profile] quillismightier.livejournal.com 2005-07-12 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Bad Touch Balki?
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