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TiVo Rides Into the Sunset (timemachiner.io)
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TiVo’s simple magic changed TV forever—now the iconic DVR is fading into history.

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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seems like they were always behind on things like that. I had a friend that would come over to my house to update his TiVo because I still had a landline and it required a dial-up connection. This was in 2005, well after the decline of dial-up.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I remember buying a new TiVo in 2008ish and having to download the schedule manually and import it until I was able to hack it to use a wireless adapter.

    It reminds of boomers who were part of the computer science world in the 70s and 80s and thinking we still use punch cards and 8" floppies. They were ahead of their peers, but got stuck there.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I bought my first TiVo back in... 2002?

    I had to use my work landline to do the initial setup, but then I used a USB Ethernet jack for the rest. You had to do some fancy remote secret code, but it worked just fine.

    Also was able to use disc mirroring to make a new, much larger, hard drive, so we could record essentially unlimited TV.

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