Ealier today I couldn’t make my On Demand service work. I think it is incompatible with my TiVo, although the various local cable companies which keep buying one another all swear it should work. I’ve watched all of Dexter, except for one episode. It made me kinda angry that I couldn’t watch that one episode because the On Demand does not perform as promised. The Time Warner chick on the phone was nice, but I suspect ill-informed. A tech is coming out next week. I was nice to her because she was nice to me, but I’m still kind of pissed off. Given that watching an episode of a TV show is pretty damn unimportant, I guess I’ve just got some free-floating anger today. Don’t really know why. Stuff is going well. Hectic enough to be stressful and my job is starting to involve managing more and more people (as opposed to just doing stuff myself, which I am more comfortable with), but I don’t think I should feel so generally angry.
(Click here for a site which expresses my current mood through interpretive dance.)
Hah. I love that site.. or rather their entire umbrella of websites/content. Great stuff.
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I wanted let you know, the Bunny you inspired is now on her way to becoming a coffee mug.
I used this one….
there are about three or four different pics of her I have done but I wanted to use this pic.
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Lawrence
Yeah, that one is not my fave of theirs, but I’m impressed with the whole operation. I just ran into their owner at an event and he didn’t look all that happy and I was thinking that he should just be ecstatic 24/7, but then I thought most people probably think that about me LOL
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Whoo-hoo! I’m a coffee mug! I heart coffee (although usually iced lattes.)
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There shouldn’t be any compatibility problem with TiVo and OnDemand. You wouldn’t be able to use the TiVo to order the OnDemand, but you should be able to use the cable box remote to order it just as if you didn’t have TiVo. To watch it you’d either have things wired to bypass the TiVo, or set the TiVo for ‘LiveTV’ and tune to the right channel. Of course, you want to do this when the TiVo isn’t going to try to tune something else to record.
my brother tells me I need to start watching that show. . .it is hard to keep up without a TV
Cool!
Whenever I try to go to channel 1 (theoretically On Demand for my area) it is like the channels go crazy. The screen goes to that channel and the info box says On Demand, but the channel display on the cable box starts skipping all around without me even touching either remote. The screen gives an error connecting message and then sometimes goes to the On Demand dialogue screen. If I use the cable remote, it can move the cursor around on the On Demand screen, but it doesn’t work for selecting On Demand.
How would I wire to bypass TiVo? I love love love my TiVo and wouldn’t want to have to unwire and rewire it, for fear of messing it up.
Dexter started out really strong, but tonight’s episode actually was abysmally mediocre to sucky.
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Soon as funds allow, you shall be a plushy too. i just designed and made the prototype of one of my comic characters called Abuse Me AL. He is the stress relief doll that enjoys being hurt.
I put pics up on my journal of him if you want to see hime.
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Lawrence
Are you controlling the cable box with serial or IR blasters?
To bypass the TiVo you could split the output of the cable box and connect to a second input on your TV, if it has one. Then you just switch to the other input to bypass the TiVo.
Otherwise you can pick up an A/B switch box from RadioShack or the like and splitters, split the output and connect the TiVo and cable box to the A/B switch, then the switch to the TV. When you want to bypass the TiVo you’d just use the switch.