TiVo’s simple magic changed TV forever—now the iconic DVR is fading into history.

  • hactar42@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months 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.