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TiVo For Dummies
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.38833
EAN: 9780764569234
ISBN: 0764569236
Label: For Dummies
Manufacturer: For Dummies
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 324
Publication Date: April 16, 2004
Publisher: For Dummies
Studio: For Dummies
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Did it about kill you when “Cheers” went off the air? Want to make sure you don’t miss an appointment with Dr. Phil? Want to see anything and everything with Jessica Lange, Kate Winslet, or Clint Eastwood? Are your kids really into SpongeBob SquarePants, judo, gorillas, or the Civil War?
TiVo to the rescue. TiVo lets you watch what you want when you want to. You can pause live TV, replay missed high points, skip commercials, and even get TiVo to find and record stuff you’ll be interested in! TiVo For Dummies shows you how, even if you’re one of the millions whose VCR clock is only right twice a day! You’ll discover how to: - Choose the right TiVo for your needs and your TV service
- Get an “instant replay” with the click of a button
- Use a Season Pass to get TiVo to seek out and record all episodes of a favorite TV show, no matter when they air
- Create a WishList so you can turn on whatever turns you on; TiVo will find and record specified TV shows, movie titles, and programs with your favorite actors or directors
- Expand your WishList to include topics such as sports (there are 93 subcategories to choose from), opera, car repair, volcanoes, or whatever, and TiVo will record related programming
- Use TiVo’s Home Media Option (HMO) to play yourMP3 music files and view digital photos
- Fast-forward through commercials, sometimes cutting an hour show to 40 minutes
- Use Parental Controls to lock out specific channels or filter individual shows based on content
TiVo For Dummies was written by Andy Rathbone, possibly the bestselling technology ever, and the author of thirty-five For Dummies books. It takes you from setting up TiVo to fine-tuning it to troubleshooting it with all kinds of info and aids including: - A diagram of the TiVo remote with call-outs and descriptions of what all 26 buttons do
- Button shortcuts, live TV shortcuts, Now Playing screen shortcuts, and text entry shortcuts
- Suggestions about additional software you may want for TiVo HMO, including MoodLogic that becomes your personal disc jockey
- Web sites that give all kinds of TiVo information
- A glossary
TiVo puts you in control of your TV viewing, and TiVo For Dummies puts you in control of TiVo!
- Helps first-time users get up and running with TiVo, the set-top box and subscription service that allows people to record hours of television programs digitally
- TiVo is growing rapidly and currently has more than one million subscribers-including more than 500,000 who have signed on since Spring 2002
- Walks readers through TiVo basics and beyond, from setting up TiVo, recording manually, creating automatic recording rules to incorporating a TiVo into a home theater system, troubleshooting problems, and upgrading TiVo hardware
- Written by the world's #1 bestselling technology author-the man behind thirty-five top-selling For Dummies titles, including Windows XP For Dummies (0-7645-0893-8), Upgrading & Fixing PCs For Dummies (0-7645-1665-5), and MP3 For Dummies
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Very useful and easy to read
I bought this book to help me decide whether or not to Tivo. This book quickly sold me on the features of Tivo, so I bought one. The book was very useful during setup, as well as operation of the Tvo. I agree with everything in the "Big Help" review, so I won't repeat it here.
Rating: - A Big Help
This book is the place to start if you don't know anything about Tivo. I certainly did not when I received a Tivo box as a gift. Figuring out how it would fit in with cable box, video tape recorder, and dvd player was daunting. The booklet that comes with the Tivo player is a good reference but Rathbone's book provides a much more readable explanation of how everything works. It not only provides clear explanations on how to set up the equipment in a variety of configurations but also explains ... Read More
Rating: - Title should be "Getting the Most Out of Your TiVo"
An up-front caveat - I served as the Technical Editor for this book, so I can share the blame for any outright errors... I have no financial stake in sales of the book. That said, on with the review.
When I was first approached regarding "TiVo For Dummies", I was skeptical. I was an experienced TiVo user and I thought that the TiVo manual was pretty good. I wondered what such a book could add to be worth paying for. The answer turned out to be "a lot".
As easy as TiVo is ... Read More
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