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"Francis Ford Coppola" on my TiVo?
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Posted by: cwoody222

Hey, I got this semi-cool 6min video/interview w/ Coppola about the Oscars on Sunday night.

But, I have no reserve space on my old 14hr machine...how did I get this???

I don't care (I have plenty of space) but I'm just curious...

Posted by: willmw

Is there, maybe, actually SOME reserve space on a 14 hour unit???

Posted by: DrStrange

Check Showcases. Did you get all 10 of the clips, or just a Coppola one?

Posted by: cwoody222

Just Coppola...and a 2min commercial for Series2.

This is the first time EVER I've seen the little clapboards.

Posted by: DrStrange

Then you're missing about 18 minutes of stuff by my count. Trailers, Oscar background stuff, and one more Coppola clip. Maybe you don't have much reserved space but as willmw says you've got enough for a clip or two.

Posted by: jradosh

quote:
Originally posted by DrStrange
Then you're missing about 18 minutes of stuff by my count. Trailers, Oscar background stuff, and one more Coppola clip. Maybe you don't have much reserved space but as willmw says you've got enough for a clip or two.

I only got the 6 minute Coppola interview, and I have plenty of space on my DTivo (~ 106 hours :))

Maybe what they send you varies by unit?

J

Posted by: jamus

quote:
Originally posted by jradosh

I only got the 6 minute Coppola interview, and I have plenty of space on my DTivo (~ 106 hours :))

Maybe what they send you varies by unit?

J

They had to broadcast the clips over three nights. The first night, Discovery Channel played the wrong tape, the second night it sounded like it was TiVo's fault, and they finally got it right this morning.

I only had that interview before this morning. You may have had a conflct this morning w/ Discovery Channel. Maybe you have to do a daily call.

Posted by: John494900

This sucks! again I got nothing, no interview, clips, trailers, nothing!

and I KNOW it recorded the discovery channel. I forced a call and everything! I have a 31201 and I have tons of space free anyways.

I really wanted to see how this Showcase thing worked!!

Oh well.

Posted by: mishagray

One of my DTivo's only got the Coppola interview.

The other DTivo got everything.

There may be more to it than that, but I signed an NDA that prevents me from saying any more.

Nothing on the AT&T box.

Posted by: cheerdude

I got the "Inside the Academy Awards" and the Animated Film Category on the TiVo Central menu... and the Coppola interview in Showcases... no trailers.

I know that TiVo plans to record the Advanced Paid Programming tomorrow morning... so maybe more will show up - but I don't know why, since the Oscars are on tonight.

Maybe after my daily call today, something else will appear.

Posted by: JPriller

quote:
Originally posted by John494900
This sucks! again I got nothing, no interview, clips, trailers, nothing!

Ditto. I got 30 minutes of paid advertising for a weight loss program instead (I have hidden recordings in Now Playing turned on, so I can go look at what it recorded). My cable company doesn't carry the Discovery channel in the wee hours, it runs paid advertising crap instead.

I don't care much for the Oscar stuff, but I really would have liked to have the TiVo Series 2 promo they ran a month or so ago.

Posted by: mattm29

weird but when I go into the HIDDEN CLIPS backdoor the Oscar clips are there - about 6 - 8 of 'em including the Copola interview but the neither the TIVO showcase nor the TIVO CENTRAL STAR are displayed. I wonder why? anyway to rebuild them so they are displayed normally?

Posted by: John494900

Is the Hidden Clips backdoor tough to do? Or is it like the little clock thing? (S-P-S-9-S) If it's something like that could someone tell me what that is because I would like to see what my Tivo recorded last night.
Thanks

Posted by: mattm29

this is what I used

``- Thumbs Down, Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, Instant Replay - If done in Now
Playing, it will take you to a new menu called "Clips on Disk". This menu has the
same content as the hidden recordings, but broken up into clips like they are in the
Showcases. If you don't have any clips for whatever reason (haven't gotten any
yet, your cable operator pre-empts the clips program, etc), this will reboot the
machine.

Posted by: John494900

Thanks! When I searched for it I forgot to search in Tips and Tricks, and only searched underground! I always forget about T&T. Thanks again

Posted by: John494900

....and it looks like they were all paid programming! It's cool that TiVo knows that. I really wish it would have worked though. oh well.

Posted by: mattm29

were you able to watch them? on my DirecTivo it lists them as Teleworld Paid Programming and they were the actually videos but somehow TiVo didn't get all the necessary information in order to move them over to the Showcase or something. dunno but glad I could at least watch them.

Posted by: TheSimpsons

quote:
Originally posted by mattm29
this is what I used

``- Thumbs Down, Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, Instant Replay - If done in Now
Playing, it will take you to a new menu called "Clips on Disk".

A menu called "clips on disk"?? I've tried that code a million times but on my Sony SVR-2000, it dosen't take me to a menu. All the downloaded clips just appear as shows on the bottom of my Now Playing List. :confused:

-The Simpsons :) :D :cool: :eek: :rolleyes:

Posted by: mattm29

yup - worked on my DirecTivo which is running 2.5

here is the entire clip from the back door codes -

Triple Thumb codes (new to 2.5?)
--------------------------------
New codes, it seems like. There's only a few of these, and they are still being
found. Consider them experimental.

``- Thumbs Down, Thumbs Down, Thumbs Up, Instant Replay - If done in the ToDo
List, it will turn on "Scheduled Suggestions". If done in the Now Playing List, it will
display the "hidden" recordings, like the Teleworld Paid Program. These recordings
are those in reserved space.

``- Thumbs Down, Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, Instant Replay - If done in Now
Playing, it will take you to a new menu called "Clips on Disk". This menu has the
same content as the hidden recordings, but broken up into clips like they are in the
Showcases. If you don't have any clips for whatever reason (haven't gotten any
yet, your cable operator pre-empts the clips program, etc), this will reboot the
machine.

``- Thumbs Down, Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, Record - Do it from the Tivo Central
main menu to get the "MenuItem Back Door". It shows the current date in both the
number of days since Jan. 1st, 1970 (an internal date format) and also in the
normal style. Not sure of the purpose here. This also seems to do something (don't
know what) if you do it from the Showcases screen.

Posted by: DBCooper

He finally showed up on my Tivo the night of the Oscars. What a let down! Maybe if he had spared me the Communist propaganda, I could have sat through it.

For those of you who missed his idiotic remark, he was talking about saving the air and water of the earth and warned that big corporations would control it all if they could. "They already control the oil." What a MAROON! Here's a fact, Francis. Big corporations already control the wine-producing industry; they even OWN the vineyards! So when will you give your properties to the government?

Posted by: glennf

I get a kick out of seeing users with all these TiVos 2,3,4,5 of them and most of them upgraded to 100+ hours. LOL!!! Some of these people must do nothing but watch TV all day and night. I can't believe the money they must have spent to buy and upgrade all their TiVos.

Posted by: Otto

quote:
Originally posted by TheSimpsons
A menu called "clips on disk"?? I've tried that code a million times but on my Sony SVR-2000, it dosen't take me to a menu. All the downloaded clips just appear as shows on the bottom of my Now Playing List. :confused:

Different codes do different things. Read carefully. ;)

Posted by: DBCooper

quote:
Originally posted by glennf
I get a kick out of seeing users with all these TiVos 2,3,4,5 of them and most of them upgraded to 100+ hours. LOL!!! Some of these people must do nothing but watch TV all day and night. I can't believe the money they must have spent to buy and upgrade all their TiVos.

And what does that have to do with the Francis Ford Coppola thread? Or is it just a voice from under the bridge?

Posted by: cwoody222

But...did we ever figure out why I got this on my 14hour supposedly-no-reserve-space TiVo???

Also, I tried the DownUpDownIR code in Now Playing to get the Clips menu...it didn't work...and it didn't reboot either like the other person said it would.

Oh well.

Posted by: BrettStah

quote:
Originally posted by glennf
I get a kick out of seeing users with all these TiVos 2,3,4,5 of them and most of them upgraded to 100+ hours. LOL!!! Some of these people must do nothing but watch TV all day and night. I can't believe the money they must have spent to buy and upgrade all their TiVos.

Not in my case... but it's a common misconception! :)

In my case, when I do have time (and want to) sit down to watch TV, I want maximum choices available. With the ability to have close to 300 hours of shows that I (or someone in my family) really like available at any given point in time is awesome! I probably average 1-2 hours of TV viewing on a typical "stay at home" evening. Probably double that on Saturday and some Sundays. (Football season adds some more to the weekends too). So the most TV I'll watch in a typical week is between 10-20 hours. My wife has time during the day to watch a few shows that she likes, so she watches a little more than me (but doesn't watch as much on the weekends, and doesn't watch football games), so it probably works out to the same amount, with a lot of overlapping shows in the evenings.

So even though I have 300 hours available, I only watch a small fraction of that every week. But when I do watch, I have tons of great shows to choose from, instead of spending half of my viewing time channel surfing.

Posted by: BrettStah

BTW, I've spent about $1,200 total (including lifetime service and upgrade drives, and after any rebates) to have 4 Tivos (2 DirecTivos, each with a 100GB drive added to it).

I'm really impressed with the resale value of Tivos on eBay. I could take my two 30 hour standalones with lifetime service, and probably get close to $900 total for them. I'll probably do that as soon as I am able to get UPN and WB via DirecTV, and get another DirecTivo to take their place. That will really reduce my total Tivo investment! :)

Posted by: HTH

Wouldn't that exceed the maximum supportable weight limit?

HRD112 weight limit...
How much weight can I stack on top of my Tivo

Posted by: TheSimpsons

quote:
Originally posted by HTH
Wouldn't that exceed the maximum supportable weight limit?

HRD112 weight limit...
How much weight can I stack on top of my Tivo

LOL! :D

-The Simpsons :) :D :cool: :eek: :p