Archive for July, 2006
Only a Tivo is a Tivo
Saturday, July 15th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
It was a sad day in our household on Monday of this week; our Tivo died. It had been acting a bit screwy as of late and then it told us it was recording a movie that it actually wasn’t. Traci couldn’t get it to go away so she rebooted it and, much to our dismay, it never booted back up again.
We called DirecTV and told them what happened and they said that they would have to replace the unit. I imagine it’s easier to just replace the box than it is to try to spend a couple hours trying to fix it. They told us that they couldn’t guarantee us a Tivo though; as most of you probably know DirecTV has been working on their own DVR for some time now. They’ve severed their ongoing relationship with Tivo …read more »
Long Time, No Post
Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
It’s been a while since the last posting; I’ve been very, very busy as of late. I haven’t updated the photo album or this blog in ages, it seems. I’ve been pretty much tied up with creating DVDs from our home movies and I haven’t had any time to do anything else. The bad thing is that the movie editing software I bought has major issues with the burning engine; in other words, it creates corrupted DVDs …read more »
