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Leo Laporte's Guide to TiVo
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.38833
EAN: 9780789731951
Edition: Pap/Cdr
ISBN: 0789731959
Label: Que
Manufacturer: Que
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: October 17, 2004
Publisher: Que
Studio: Que
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Editorial Review:You probably bought your TiVo so that you would never have to miss another baseball game, soap opera or Thursday night sitcom again. It's great at what it does and is much friendlier than your VCR. But did you know that your TiVo is capable of so much more than recording your favorite programs? That is why Leo Laporte, a top voice in consumer technology, and Gareth Branwyn, of Wired magazine, got together to bring you Leo Laporte's Guide to TiVo, a fun, light-hearted and in-depth look at TiVo and all that it is capable of. In this easy-to-follow guide, you will learn remote control trickery, how to upgrade your TiVo hardware, how to add a CallerID display to your television and how to add web capabilities. Take control of your television destiny with Leo Laporte's Guide to TiVo.
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Rating:  - Leo Laporte's Guide to Tivo
Great book. If you are interested in the workings of tivo this is a must have
Rating: - OK, but NOT FOR HACKING
This seems like a nice book for beginners to TiVo. There are occasionally intersting nuggets inside, so I don't totally hate it. For my purposes, though, it was awful. Leo LaPorte is technically savvy, but this book's description is DEFINITELY MISLEADING. It will NOT teach you how to get your Series 2 DirecTivo on the web. For that you will need "Hacking the Tivo" and a lot of time on dealdatabase.com's forums.
Rating:  - Featuring 432 pages of informed "user friendly" information
TiVO is one of the most increasingly popular electronic home entertainment systems in the market today. With a computer chip that makes video tape obsolte, and with the enhanced visual images that only a digital system can provided, TiVo is well on its way to making VHS video recorders as obsolete as their BetaMax predecssors. In Leo Laporte's Guide To TiVo, Leo Laporte clearly describes the hacks, upgrades, and improvements that most TiVo users are likely to perform and focuses on the things that ... Read More
Rating:  - This book saved me time and grief in my upgrade.
I had a spare 120 gig drive left over from another project and found
out that I could use it to upgrade my series 1 Tivo machine. That was January 2004. I read various websites on the subject. I thought about it; read some more; thought about it some more; and never got anywhere. Finally, I read the section on InstantCake in Leo's book and realized that this was best solution for my situation. Lucky me. I ran the program and initialized the drive for TIVO before I opened the box. My Tivo ... Read More
Rating: - I'm no ubergeek...
...and I don't play one on TV. So maybe THAT's why I love this book. I mean, I'm the type who didn't laugh when told that there are some idiots in the world who actually called help desks looking for the 'any' key. Um,I was one of those idiots. So books like this, that give me some background, as well as some directions I can actually FOLLOW, are always welcome. And maybe I'm a sucker for style, but I love the tone of this book, and the goofy sense of humor.
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