Wednesday: Tivo help and other stuff

[yendi]

Any of the other Tivo experts have any idea why my series 1 Tivo (which is connecting just fine, and is up to date and paid-for) hasn't downloaded any data past next Thursday? I know it's called in successfully the last two nights, and definitely downloaded info (since it got the Cinderaella Man preview), but no updated data. Any ideas what to do?

In the meantime, it still has this week's schedule just fine, which meant we could watch Veronica Mars last night, which continues to kick twelve kinds of ass. And next week brings us TV's Jonathan Taylor Thomas as a guest star playing a bad boy! Hey, if they could survive Paris Hilton, JTT will be a breeze. I've got some spoileriffic thoughts on the show that I'll post later. In the spoiler-free part, though, did anyone else crack up at the fact that a Harry Hamlin movie (my favorite one, in fact) was playing on the TV? And, come to think of it, that's the second time the movie's been referred to on this show. Wonder if we can count on a Maggie Smith cameo?

Reading more comics last night, I'm really starting to think that Warren Ellis needs to slow down. The latest Ocean was fine (if recycling ideas that Ellis has been using for years), but Ultimate Secret was just crap. And Bendis is in the same boat -- even after I dropped the weakest of his titles (New Avengers), his other books in this package were bad (Secret War #4, the one with Black Widow on the cover but nowhere else, and with a clusterfuck of a plot, and which will be continued in six months, if the artist gets around to it, but hey, here's a bunch of space-filling pin-ups), okay (The Pulse), and decent but not as good as he's capable of (Daredevil). He needs to cut his workload to under 10 books a month.

As for other books in the batch, I liked the latest New X-Men Academy a lot better the first time I read it, when it was Spectre #22, by Ostrander and Mandrake. And surprisingly, the latest Giffen JL Classified was sub-bar, although the Beetle moments were wonderful (especially the interaction with Power Girl). Of course, the Max Lord in this book was clearly poorly written, since he defies current continuity (that was sarcasm dripping there).

And the batch included the final Waid Fantasic Four. Waid and Ringo's run on this book is one of my favorite runs on any title in ages (possibly my favorite long-term one since the aforementioned Ostrander/Mandrake Spectre run). Just amazing stuff.

Finally, as long as I'm posting about comics, how about Incredible Popeman! Who appears to actually be Incredible Zombie Popeman (link ganked from aiela).

Comments

[heathrow.livejournal.com]

Have you rebooted your TiVo? On occassion, I used to have those issues with my Series 1. Sometimes, the hard reboot will force the refresh of data. In addition, I'd force a call as well to have it reindex. If that fails, there's the usually-helpful TiVo customer support.

[yendi]

I've tried the reboot and forced call, with no luck. I'll do a reindex tomorrow morning, as we have a lot of Tivo stuff recording tonight, and I don't want to mess anything up.

[hockeyrules88.livejournal.com]

Really simple idea but unplug the Tivo and reboot the system. Then have it dial again and redownload the data.

[yendi]

Tried that this morning, but no luck. I'll reindex tomorrow.

[tablesaw]

Marvel published a JPII comic in the 80s. All I remember of it was that it depicted him in prison visiting the man who tried to kill him. Can't find any pics of it on the Internets right now.

[auryn29a.livejournal.com]

I can only add to what others have said about the Tivo. I had a similar problem last week, but mine was worse. It kept showing me the same message over and over that I had run out of data. I couldn't get it to stop. I had no choice but to reboot and it was fine after that.

I kind of groaned at the New X-Men Academy issue. I saw it coming from last month. It just felt like a filler issue. And I have totally forgotten what was going on in Secret War so I just don't know what's happening right now.

[gladstone.livejournal.com]

If I were you, I'd wait for the inevitable DVD release of the first season. I wouldn't want the murder mystery story arc spoiled by coming in so close to the end.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Hey, the Bettle moments are the best parts of all the FTJL. THE reason why I only buy this series.

Tood bad the killed off Sue in "real" continuity.

[sainthuck.livejournal.com]

VM is one of my favorite shows on air right now. Sharp, clever, and paying off storylines (and according to Rob Thomas, will answer every mystery posed in the pilot - all in five more episodes!). The Titans nod was a stroke of genius. The only slight misstep (other than the skank Paris) this show has ever made is that some of the pop culture references seem too dated for kids this age to get, even if is that sort of ironic retro reference thing (like the whole 80s flashback dance theme). But that's a small price to pay for excellent television.

Speaking of grown-up Home Improvement lads, did you notice Zachery (Ty) Bryan as the clueless jock this week?

[gladstone.livejournal.com]

My TiVo failed to start recording Veronica Mars last night. It was in the To Do list to start at 9, and the clock said 9:02, but it wasn't recording. I switched to live TV and pressed "info," but there was no info to be had, and I couldn't even get it to record manually. I rebooted during the first commercial break, and the TiVo started recording just as soon as it came back on, but I missed the first couple of minutes. First major TiVo malfunction since I got the thing a couple of years ago. Weird. Good thing I was home, or I would have missed VM entirely.