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Wed, May. 7th, 2008, 11:03 am
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We are getting Tivo installed on our Comcast cable today - not a Tivo box, but they put a card into our existing DVR and it transforms into a Tivo. Or Optimus Prime. Something like that.

I'm hoping they show up on the early side of the time window they gave me.

This is the greatest picture ever.

I hate listening to other people chew. Or bite their nails. Or burp 90 times a day.

Thankfully the guy right next to me at work does all of that.
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Wed, May. 7th, 2008 08:58 pm (UTC)
(Anonymous): thats not exactly it

I hope you know that the comast tivo service is incredibly buggy, be prepared for 888888 and blue or green screens of death, recordings that take 5 minutes to set up and who knows what else. Also they dont put a card in your box, they download software to your exsiting cable box and bring you or send you a new remote. I hope your luck is better than everyone elses, oh and by the way if you dont like the comast tivo they cant take it out and give you your old dvr back the way it was, anything you have saved on it will be lost.

good luck
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Wed, May. 7th, 2008 09:09 pm (UTC)
[info]stenz: Re: thats not exactly it

Good to know!

The guy showed up today on time and called ahead of time to let me know when he would be there.
He asked if I was getting a DVR today, and I said no the person on the line told me it was a card that needed to be put in for Tivo. He said okay and would be there soon.

He showed up soon after that and phoned in about my DVR. I had read that it would work with this upgrade, and he said that it definitely would. But the person at the other end of the line was new and said he didn't think it would work.
No matter, as this install guy brought up another (newer) box anyway and swapped that out.

He plugged it in, the guy on the other side flipped a switch and it was done.

It takes a few hours to update the software and then I will test it out - I'm at work now but will see when I get home.

As for anything being lost off of the old DVR, I was expecting that as I knew it would put a new OS over top of it - or in this case it is a whole new DVR unit.
No big deal to me as nothing we watch is terribly important.

I will get a better feel for it over the upcoming months.

I know our old DVR was truly awful, but then it went through a few updates and actually wasn't so bad recently.
So if the current Tivo is bad, maybe it will get updates as well.

I expected this to be harder - so far it has been easy. Which probably means that my place will be on fire when I get home.
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Thu, May. 8th, 2008 03:36 am (UTC)
[info]dopplertx

I hate the mouth noise thing, too. There's a guy where I work who constantly pops his gum, and frequently eats baby carrots at his desk. Oh, and about once a week he pulls out his nail clippers and clips his nails. At his desk. At work. It drove me nuts. Thankfully, we now work in different buildings. The guy who sits next to me frequently gets the sniffles, and will do that thing where you suck the mucous back up, *SNIFFF* several times a minute, all day long. I have to wear headphones with loud music on those days, because he gets offended if I ask him to go blow his nose.

The mouth noise pet peeve of mine seems to have been getting worse over the years. Nowadays, I have second thoughts when deciding whether or not to go to a movie, because I know that the people surrounding me eating popcorn will potentially drive me bonkers.
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