tlhIngan
join:2002-07-08
Richmond, BC
| reply to soccerdad007
Re: [TV] Tivo and Shaw HD digital box
I never liked the HD-PVR, it has the same problems with the cable boxes in general - their UI sucks horrendously and doing stuff is unnecessarily complicated. It's TV, geez!
But it depends - are you watching HD output? If so, you might just get away with using HDMI to the TV, and connecting the TiVo via the analog S-Video and analog audio outputs. If you're just using it to tune digital channels, hook the HD box to the TiVo, and the TiVo to the TV, and coax cable to both. The setup poster included with the TiVo will detail the connections you need.
The IR blaster is an issue - unfortunately, Shaw didn't enable the serial port, so you can't use that (I tried it). Like I said, I think the first set of tests (where the TiVo tunes various channels) I let it pass through, but the second set of tests is where I start to lie to it (when the option "The channel changed, but NOT to ##" becomes available). I let the first one pass, the rest fail. This way the TiVo blasts the IR nice and slow.
The easy way to test is to tune to a digital channel via the number pad, then channel up several times. If it works, it'll reliably change the channel. If not, it'll mess up really quick. But once I did this, it works great. Apparently the boxes bog down a bit and they miss button presses... |
