( 5 reviews )
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Feb 24 2006
Great book. If you are interested in the workings of tivo this is a must have
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( 6 of 7 found this review helpful ) Posted: Jan 23 2005
This seems like a nice book for beginners to TiVo. There are occasionally intersting nuggets inside, so I don't totally hate it. For my purposes, though, it was awful. Leo LaPorte is technically savvy, but this book's description is DEFINITELY MISLEADING. It will NOT teach you how to get your Series 2 DirecTivo on the web. For that you will need "Hacking the Tivo" and a lot of time on dealdatabase.com's forums.
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( 6 of 9 found this review helpful ) Posted: Dec 12 2004
TiVO is one of the most increasingly popular electronic home entertainment systems in the market today. With a computer chip that makes video tape obsolte, and with the enhanced visual images that only a digital system can provided, TiVo is well on its way to making VHS video recorders as obsolete as their BetaMax predecssors. In Leo Laporte's Guide To TiVo, Leo Laporte clearly describes the hacks, upgrades, and improvements that most TiVo users are likely to perform and focuses on the things that will make life with your TiVo worth living - things such as adding a CallerID display to your television, adding a new hard drive, remote control hacks that anyone can perform and adding Web capabilities. Featuring 432 pages of informed and informative "user friendly information, Leo Laporte's Guide To TiVo is a "must" for anyone seeking to maximize what their TiVo system can offer them.
