Can Roamio work/w Directv?

Can Roamio work behind or in place of a Directv box in a mountain area where OTA does not exist? I just have a standard (not HD) Directv box without a DVR.

Can Roamio work/w Directv?

Great British Baking Show on PBS

A new-to-USA edition of the show started airing last week, but listings here are showing as a repeat since it is actually the fourth UK season from 2013 (the previous season PBS aired was the 5th).

Great British Baking Show on PBS

Sense8 - Netflix, All Episodes release 6/5/2015

A heads up that the series Sense8, from creators/writers J. Michael Straczynski, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, will be available on Netflix on June 5, 2015 -- all 12 episodes.

A group of people around the world are suddenly linked mentally, and must find a way to survive being hunted by those who see them as a threat to the world's order.


The trailer looks pretty good.

http://ift.tt/1LQ4M9c...

Sense8 - Netflix, All Episodes release 6/5/2015

Sense8 - Netflix, All Episodes release 6/5/2015

Transfering .tivo files back to tivo

I moved all my files from my tivo to a hardrive in prep for replacing the drive. Using desktop plus. all seemed to go well. but I am having an exceptionally hard time getting them back. they either will start the transfer but never finish it of refuse to do so at all.
I have looked for a copy of pytivo but there appear to be many versions around and I cannot find any that can be installed, anyone hve suggestion or possible websites that have everything i need in one place. I did get...

Transfering .tivo files back to tivo

Transfering .tivo files back to tivo

Bit torrent Question.. I need someone to walk me through like I am 5

I have tried to figure out this Bit Torrent stuff FOREVER.. and never been able to get it to work.

This morning my husband tried, and again.. we are coming up

Using the bittorrent.com guide instructions.. the part we must be doing wrong is the web server part. Do I need a designated web server to download shows? I have my own personal website for business and Kevin has a web server for work, do we somehow need to tap into these?

I was thinking this was more like...

Bit torrent Question.. I need someone to walk me through like I am 5

Bit torrent Question.. I need someone to walk me through like I am 5

Netflix poor quality

Has anybody seen poor/inconsistent picture quality on Netflix Tivo app in the past several weeks? My Roamio ethernet is hard wired to a 10Gbps switch, and ISP speed is 65Mbps. Other devices on the same switch see full port speed and full internet speed. However, Netflix quality is extremely variable. Starts out ok, then drops very low every few minutes, then back to good quality. Used to be good for hours at a time in months prior.

If I watch the same exact program on a Fire TV stick over...

Netflix poor quality

Netflix poor quality

Cox Bitrates

The other night I was watching The Americans recorded from Cox-Tucson cable and I noticed some pixelation and compression artifacts. I hadn't seen that in quite some time. So I poked around the diagnostics and recording lengths for FX and found the following.

The encoding on FX is MPEG-2. For a 80 minute recording of The Americans on FX, the file size was 3.13 GB.

Assuming 1 GB = 1024 MB and 1 MB = 1,048,576 bytes, then 1GB = 8,589,934,592 bits or 8,589.93 million bits. Or 1 GB ~=...

Cox Bitrates

Cox Bitrates