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We bought our Tivo way back when it was first launched and loved it, and then started to have problems. We replaced the hard drive and things were OK for a while and then more problems. We found a chappie on eBay who sold us two hard drives and everything was wonderful - and then more HD problems.

And then came DTV and our Tivo only has analog, so the box has sat in a corner of our bedroom for a few years.

Looking at these busy forums and the projects, I can only assume that a way has been found to tune the Tivo into DTV, am I correct? And if so how?

So let me run down what we have and what we've been offered:

We have an old Tivo with (presumably) at least one u/s hard drive, it has an analog tuner which is useless here in Bristol.

We also have two Sky+ boxes one of which we use regularly and another that I use for Grand Prix and other series.

We've got a VM cable box with an extremely basic channel package (the FreeView package) which is almost never used, but it came as part of the phone/BB package from Virgin and comes in handy occasionally

We've been offered a Tivo package by VM with everything including free maintenance, but the wife says Sky or VM and there are Sky channels that aren't on VM.

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What we'd love is to be able to use the Tivo as we used to to get all of our regular terestrial channels - is that possible?

I've probably left something out but that's all that I can think of right now.

cheers

BJ

BJtheDJ wrote:+++++++++++++

What we'd love is to be able to use the Tivo as we used to to get all of our regular terestrial channels - is that possible?

Yes.

TiVo can control a digital STB, a $ky box, and probably a VM cable box. None of these are difficult to set up, but some are easier than others. How you get there depends on how much time/cash you are prepared to spend. Some ways are more expensive - but you don't need to "get your hands dirty" - otheres are DIY fixes, but mean you are going to get the toolkit out.

Whichever way you choose, there are plenty of helpful folk around here to get you up and running, but perhaps the bestplace for you to start, is at the FAQ