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Tivo & DVR

Tivo & DVR

Get cutting edge advice on Tivo and DVR technology, from selecting the right model for your home to transferring shows from your player to a laptop using Tivo ToGo. Want to watch TV even faster? Say goodbye to annoying commercials by enabling the 30 second skip feature on Tivo. Whether you’re just learning how to schedule your favorite TV shows, or you need to know how to find and install a proper codec for your Tivo, eHow has step-by-step instructions to help you out.

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  • What Happens When You Unplug Your DVR?

    A digital video recorder (DVR) operates very much like your desktop computer, using a hard drive that records data (your programs) and erases it without the degradation of quality you may remember...

  • How to hack your apple TV

    This article will show you how to take a standard Apple TV and "Hack" it so that you can play back virtually any media file, copy to and from it remotely, and load a very nice media...

  • How to Add an External Hard Drive to a Tivo

    Add an external hard drive to a Tivo if you need extra storage space to record shows or movies. Tivo makes it easy by providing a eSATA port in the back of Standard Series 3 or Tivo HD units. An...

  • How to Upgrade Tivo

    Many owners of TiVo brand DVRs find the unit's limited amount of storage space annoying. But you can upgrade a TiVo unit to store hundreds of hours of programming. The job can be as simple as...

  • How to Use the USB on a Dish DVR

    The USB 2.0 port on the back of many Dish Network receivers can enable you to use a separate external hard drive with your DVR service. Once this feature is enabled, you can store and watch...

  • How to Replace a Hard Drive in a Digital Recorder

    Hard drives are used for more than just computers: they are used in may devices, including digital recorders to store audio and video. Hard drives, no matter they are connected to, will go bad at...

  • How to expand my Cablevision DVR storage

    Running out of room on your DVR? Learn how to expand the storage - Yes it's possible!

  • How to Replace a Hard Drive in a Toshiba DVR

    A DVR records television programming to its internal hard drive. Toshiba DVRs use standard desktop computer drives that can be replaced by the end user, without the need for special tools or...

  • How to Replace a DVR Hard Drive

    A DVR uses a hard drive just like the one in your computer to record and play back television programming. The more gigabytes of storage the unit has, the more hours of programming it can...

  • How Does a Digital Video Recorder Work?

    Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) come with an on-screen guide that users can control with a designated remote control. When users turn on their TV and DVR, the on-screen guide will typically display...

  • How to Replace a TiVo Hard Drive

    It happens to all of us--we're happily going through our lives, recording and saving television programs we've missed to our Tivos or digital video recorders, and then reality sets in. We're out...

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