Re: [Chrysler300] Barrett-Jackson

["Roger Schaaf" <obiwan10@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I paid 200 dollars for a lifetime membership for DirecTV/Tivo some 5 years ago.  I have not paid a dime since, and am now licensed on 4 Tivo's.  Up until recently, DirecTV still offered a lifetime subscription(do not know what the rules are today).

As for your point that you pay nothing and get the same, this is incorrect.  Tivo is more then just a recording device.  Their is a wealth of features offered that no other system comes close to duplicating.  Main competitors were/are Microsoft's Ultimate TV(dead for most purposes) and Replay TV(same).  Also DVR service from Echo Star(competing Sat TV system) and Cable services are beginning to roll out services.  DirecTV now as it is owned by Rudolph Murdoch, now licenses another DVR service besides Tivo..  There are some basic Tivo like services offered via your PC using special video cards.

Any "free" Tivo like service does not offer a wealth of features that are standard to Tivo.  Some highlight would be the ability to get a Season Pass.  This allows you to tell your DVR to record every episode of say The Sopranos or Desperate Housewives or 60 Minutes.  Each week, Tivo will then switch to the proper channel, at the proper time and for the proper length of time and record for you.  Even if the program is moved to another time slot(say because of a football game), Tivo knows this and still records it.

You can tell Tivo to always be on the lookout for say a favorite movie.  Recently I asked Tivo to record The Gumball Rally(the best car movie of all time for me).  Some 8 weeks later, it was offered on Speed Channel and one night I checked Tivo and found that it was recorded and waiting of me to watch it.  Same for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and many other movies that I have captured.  Right now, I have it waiting for reruns of Route 66.  

I can be recording two different channels simultaneously while watch a third program.  Their are a wealth of such features, plus High Definition recording.  No one else besides Echo Star can do this,,,,however Cable is now offering a primitive version of this now.

I was a very early adapter of Tivo and have hacked my Tivos to where I can get up to 300 hours of programming on a couple of them and have been active in the Tivo community since the beginning.  There is nothing even close, unless you believe that 8 track tapes are in the same league as super audio CD's in sonic capability.  Check out this website just to see how active and geeky the adherents to Tivo are.  Makes are membership look like rocking chair grannies in our devotion to our favorite auto.

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?&threadid=151443

Hate to get in a debate of this on this forum, but I firmly believe that those who are car nuts like most of are, are shorting themselves greatly if they are not a DVR user.

Also for those who spend 4 to 10,000 and more for TV's now, it is very penny wise to save a 100 bucks a year and watch TV without a DVR.  On each hour of programming you can watch in 40 minutes as you skip all commercials.  What is your time worth, and your physic worth to avoid all of them?

I believe that your cable company will rent you the DVR box and offer the DVR service for 10 bucks per month.  Not Tivo, but close enough and far better then no DVR at all.  In fact if I were on a desert island and was told that I could have only 2 home theatre items and it was choice of a 17 inch black and white TV with Sat/Tivo or a 20,000.00 plasma TV and a VCR, no doubt at all I would be watching my Barrett Jackson on a black and white TV.

Are there any at all Sat/Tivo users within the membership of  this forum? If there are, you know of what I speak.

Roger Schaaf
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Reed 
  To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; moparpjf@xxxxxxx ; Roger Schaaf 
  Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 2:14 PM
  Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Barrett-Jackson


  I agree, Roger. The DVR is the way to go, especially for B-J, what with the incessant and lengthy time devoted to commercials. Would like to comment on a couple of your comments however, for the benefit of the other 300 afcionadoes who might be considering a DVR.

  Personally, I don't believe Tivo is the way to go when purchasing a DVR. The monthly fee required for the Tivo turned me off. I purchased a RCA DVR a few years ago, for about the same price as a Tivo, but without any monthly fee. I thought the monthly fee was a rip-off -- you don't get anything for the monthly fee that isn't available on other DVRs free. The RCA gives me everything Tivo has, the constantly-updated guide as to what's playing on all channels, the sort/search/record/etc. functions, ad infinitum, without any fees. And it has a DVD player built-in, as well as a USB port for playing MP3 files and displaying JPEG images -- both of which may be stored/recorded on the DVR's hard drive. Maybe this is why Tivo's stock isn't doing too well.

  FYI -- standard broadcast cable and standard broadcast satellite have the quality picture and sound. just as HDTV cable and HDTV satellite have the same picture/sound quality. My DVR is not connected to a cable box, or anything else of the sort -- which is why I have cable. You can have cable service to as many TV sets, DVRs, and VCRs as you like, with each one tuned to a different channel (and recording a different program, if desired), with no receivers, special remotes, etc.

  Mike Reed / Michigan
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Roger Schaaf 
    To: Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; moparpjf@xxxxxxx 
    Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 15:29
    Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Barrett-Jackson


    Up until now I have Tivo'd all of Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and 
    Tivo is currently working away on 10 hours for Saturday.  I watch at my 
    leisure, skip all commercials(they are long and repetitive), skip all cars 
    of no interest, shorten viewing time by skipping past a lot of the time to 
    watch cars of some interest go thru their auction.  I can at my choice dump 
    these Tivo'd auctions off to DVD or Tape for archiving.  All of this is at 
    quality exactly as broadcast(no degradation as on VCR's) and I can watch 
    when I want, not when Speedchannel thinks that I should.  Also can pause 
    action or reverse for second viewing in event I missed some dialog or wish 
    to zero in on some particular aspect of an auto(such as door gaps, engine 
    detailing, license plate number, pretty girls etc). Also can in 30 seconds 
    or less skip to any point in an 8 hour auction(for example if a car was 
    destined to go off at 4 Saturday afternoon, I would not have to view 4 hours 
    of earlier auctions(and commercials)) to take a look of a car of particular 
    interest.

    Also use Tivo for recording of all the very interesting Automobile shows 
    that are on Speed, TLC etc., not to mention my wife's Desperate Housewives 
    and my 14 hours of CNBC(and Fox) each day that I can scan thru in 30 minutes 
    or less.

    This all applies to Satellite broadcasts with Tivo, cannot speak to cable, 
    but should be close except sat quality will be much better because of the 
    method that Tivo much tie into cable boxes verses integrated Sat/Tivo box.

    I realize that some may think that I am a broken record on Tivo.  However if 
    you have never taken a look at it or tried it, you are missing the best bet 
    since the advent of the hemi engine or at least the internet.

    Full disclosure, I have 4 Tivo's(they are very inexpensive, except for the 
    Hi Def one, which is superb) and own a 1000 shares of their stock which I 
    paid 7 bucks for and is now worth 6.

    Roger Schaaf
    300 B  Calyfornua


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: <moparpjf@xxxxxxx>
    To: <Chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 11:23 AM
    Subject: [Chrysler300] Barrett-Jackson


    > It is now 2:21 EST and the auction is up to lot number 1235, so I have to
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