TiVo Community Forums Archives - Second TiVo for new Fall Conflicts

TiVoCommunity.com
(c)opyright 1995-2005 All rights reserved
indexcheckTC
This area is a static history of posts in the TiVo Community Forum Archive.
This archive history was made for the simple indexing of search sites like Google.

Pages:1

Second TiVo for new Fall Conflicts
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)

Posted by: Demandred

I've seen lots of reports in this forum of people finding TiVo's at Wal-Mart, Target, etc. that were marked down. So every time I go to those stores, I look, but have never found any. Until yesterday. We're having a house built, and we went to take some pictures of it yesterday. We also needed to go to Wal-Mart, but since there's one on the way back from the house, we stopped at it instead of going to our usual Wal-Mart. They had 4 Philips 20-hour boxes (factory sealed) marked down from $269 to $179, but the register rang them up at $149. Not a super-great deal, but better than the advertised price of $199 on TiVo's web site. We got one, and my sister-in-law got one also. Which means there are 2 left, although the boxes on the last 2 are a little beat up. It looked like they were all factory-sealed.

For those of you in Houston looking for a second TiVo to handle the upcoming conflict^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hfall season, the Wal-Mart we found them at is the one off the West Beltway, just north of I-10.

Posted by: rasheed

I kinda feel that this lots of show conflict problem is really only for a few weeks of the new season until shows get cancelled in masses. After all, only one or two shows can get decent ratings per time slot.

Rasheed

Posted by: ToddHealy

quote:
Originally posted by rasheed:
I kinda feel that this lots of show conflict problem is really only for a few weeks of the new season until shows get cancelled in masses. After all, only one or two shows can get decent ratings per time slot.

Rasheed

Even if multiple shows survive in a timeslot you can usually find out after at most two episodes if a show is worth the use of a tuner. So either way many conflicts go away.

------------------
Philips 109 hour SA
2 Philips 35 hour DirecTiVos

Posted by: Philosofy

I am the proud owner of two Phillips 30 hour TiVos. I have had both for over a year now, and here is my asessment. At the beginning of the new season, you watch a heck of a lot of TV. After the first 3 weeks or so, it gets trimmed down either by cancellation, or you find you don't like the show.

So, you have two Tivos chugging away, and you dutifully watch all of it. But, when repeats start, suddenly there is nothing good on anymore. Thank god Frasier was on when Angel was, which both conflicted with Dark Angel. Dark Angel saved me from the repeats.

FWIW, my wife and I both tolerate reruns less now that we have Tivo. I'm just getting nervous, since the rerun season got my wife hooked on all these forensic shows (New Detectives, Forensic Files, etc.) on Court TV and Discovery Channel. I might have to ax those season passes for awhile so we aren't watching 80 hours of TV per week.

------------------
Phil

Posted by: Demandred

Actually, most of my conflicts are shows that we already watch, but that have moved timeslots. For example:

Sunday - the Sopranos and The Simpsons
Monday - Angel and Ally McBeal
Tuesday - Buffy and that 70's Show
Wednesday - Enterprise and Dawson's Creek
Titus and Felicity
Thursday - Survivor and Friends *and* Family Guy