It's been a while since I've been here. I used to have multiple Tivo including 3 DirecTv Tivos that turned into boat anchors a few years ago. Now I have multiple DTV dvrs and I still miss my Tivo.
A friend just asked for my help. He lives in a townhouse which is part of a retirement community. He had Dish for a while because his community didn't offer HD on their private cable distribution network but that has recently changed. He canceled his Dish system and now has HD channels from his cable socket on the wall. Most cable channels are HD. Local networks are SD but the community folks say HD network channels are coming.
He misses the Dish dvr and his community gave him a poorly written 1 page sheet that suggests a Tivo Series 2 box available at Best Buy.. It says the Premier series promoted on the Tivo website "gets bogged down". Now, first observation is that this note is way out of date. Second is that as far as I can tell, the Series 2 boxes do not record HD. Next, the note says to connect the cable wall jack to an analog port on the Tivo. This would suggest to me that the current Roamio is not going to work.
I haven't actually looked at his current setup yet but he tells me he has an HD flat screen tv connected directly to his wall jack. He has no cable box. I am guessing this institution has installed a Directv business system designed for hotels and such. I have a call in to his "contact" to verify this.
So --- anyone here have any experience/knowledge of hospitality distribution networks? What Tivo models should I be looking at. Any help would be most appreciated.
Ron
A friend just asked for my help. He lives in a townhouse which is part of a retirement community. He had Dish for a while because his community didn't offer HD on their private cable distribution network but that has recently changed. He canceled his Dish system and now has HD channels from his cable socket on the wall. Most cable channels are HD. Local networks are SD but the community folks say HD network channels are coming.
He misses the Dish dvr and his community gave him a poorly written 1 page sheet that suggests a Tivo Series 2 box available at Best Buy.. It says the Premier series promoted on the Tivo website "gets bogged down". Now, first observation is that this note is way out of date. Second is that as far as I can tell, the Series 2 boxes do not record HD. Next, the note says to connect the cable wall jack to an analog port on the Tivo. This would suggest to me that the current Roamio is not going to work.
I haven't actually looked at his current setup yet but he tells me he has an HD flat screen tv connected directly to his wall jack. He has no cable box. I am guessing this institution has installed a Directv business system designed for hotels and such. I have a call in to his "contact" to verify this.
So --- anyone here have any experience/knowledge of hospitality distribution networks? What Tivo models should I be looking at. Any help would be most appreciated.
Ron
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