{"id":13148,"date":"2014-05-30T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/?p=13148"},"modified":"2014-05-28T07:19:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T00:19:12","slug":"reunited-tivo-roamio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/reunited-tivo-roamio\/","title":{"rendered":"Reunited with Tivo Roamio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About 11 years ago, I said goodbye to Tivo<\/a>. \u00a0It was a hard breakup. \u00a0I had committed a lifetime (service) to Tivo, but it was time to move on. \u00a0I didn’t want to leave, but I had no choice.<\/div>\n
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You see, after I moved, just 10 minutes away in the same city, we left our old TV carrier and started with Verizon FIOS. \u00a0Unknowingly FIOS was not in love with Tivo as I was. \u00a0They wouldn’t support it. \u00a0I was flabbergasted. \u00a0I tried working on it for 8 hours , on my own, to make Tivo work with FIOS, but to no avail. I still remember how I felt the day I had to say goodbye.<\/div>\n

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Verizon’s DVR was decent, but it was no Tivo. \u00a0Truthfully, I lost my enthusiasm for TV like I once had.<\/div>\n
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All these years later, Tivo and I are back together. \u00a0Yes, I still have Verizon FIOS, but apparently the two play well together now. \u00a0WellConnectedMom is now a Tivo ambassador, so I get to tell you the original reasons why I loved Tivo…as well as many new more features our family loves.<\/div>\n
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In this first article, I would like to give you an overview of what makes Tivo ….Tivo. \u00a0In future articles, I’ll go into more depth.<\/div>\n
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Tivo\u00a0Roamio Types<\/span><\/h2>\n
The latest Tivo available is called the Tivo Roamio and it comes in three different products:<\/div>\n
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The one we are trying out is the middle one, the Tivo\u00a0Roamio Plus. \u00a0The Tivo\u00a0Roamio Plus has many features including:<\/div>\n
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  • 150 hours of recorded video (Standard Definition)<\/li>\n
  • 6 TV tuners (watch one channel and record up to 6 shows at one time!)<\/li>\n
  • Remote watching – you can be traveling and connect to your Tivo at home to watch your recorded shows<\/li>\n
  • Incredible Search function – you can search for shows and movies from your TV provider, Netflix, or Amazon Prime<\/li>\n
  • Review Movie Collections – Tivo analysts do the work for you and research what movies are available through your TV provider, Netflix, or Amazon Prime. \u00a0Collections include:\n
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    • Oscar Movies<\/li>\n
    • Best Animated Movies<\/li>\n
    • Family Movies<\/li>\n
    • etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
      Only the Tivo\u00a0Romio Plus DVR and the Tivo\u00a0Roamio Pro DVR offer remote watching. \u00a0You can purchase a Tivo Stream separately if you’d like to watch your Tivo shows from the Tivo Roamio DVR remotely. \u00a0Curious to know more? \u00a0Here are some more differences…<\/div>\n
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      As you can see, with Tivo you get more recording hours, you can search the Internet for shows & movies, and can even access your home movies and photos!<\/div>\n
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      Installation<\/span><\/h2>\n
      Of course, I couldn’t not write about the\u00a0Tivo\u00a0Roamio without telling you about the installation process with Verizon FIOS, since this is where I had to end using Tivo so many years ago.<\/div>\n

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      I was excited about being able to watch\/record 6 shows at once, but what puzzled me was the Verizon’s Cable Card only supports a dual tuner. \u00a0I called Verizon to find out if the\u00a0Tivo\u00a0Roamio would be able to record 6 shows, they said no. \u00a0I was so bummed. \u00a0Granted, it’s great still to have 2 channels with Tivo Roamio, but 6 would be better!<\/div>\n
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      Now, to use the\u00a0Tivo Roamio, you need a TV Cable Card that you can get from your TV provider. \u00a0If you have a DVR already from your TV provider, it should have a TV Cable Card in it. \u00a0All you need to do is remove it from your cable provider’s DVR and put it into your Tivo Roamio.<\/div>\n
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      In my case, my husband wasn’t ready yet to give up his DVR with all of his recordings on it, so I called Verizon and ordered a cable card to put in our new Tivo Roamio Plus. \u00a0Verizon didn’t charge me for the Cable Card itself, but I did have to pay $20 for the shipping of the card (rip off on shipping, huh?). \u00a0We also pay an additional $4.99\/mo for the extra Cable Card.<\/div>\n
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      2 Channels or 6 Channels Recording?<\/span><\/h2>\n
      I installed the Verizon FIOS Cable card and went through the easy Tivo\u00a0Roamio setup process. \u00a0After Tivo was all set up, I checked to see how many channels I could record at once. \u00a0Tivo told me I would be able to record 6 whereas Verizon said I would only be able to record 2 shows.<\/div>\n
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      I was so excited to find out that I could indeed record 6 channels at once! \u00a0Wow! \u00a0I’m not even sure how that’s possible, but it works! \u00a0I will never have a conflict between shows again, that’s huge!<\/div>\n

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      A Mom’s Perspective<\/span><\/h2>\n
      I could not be more thrilled with the new Tivo Roamio Plus. \u00a0I love that I can record whatever show I want and it doesn’t interfere with my kids’ or my husband’s favorite shows. \u00a0In the past, this created an issue because of a “season pass,” or the automatic recording of our favorite shows every time a new one was one. \u00a0We often had conflicts of several season pass shows recording at the same time.<\/div>\n

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      There were times when we’d have to make a choice which show got recorded. \u00a0Now we all can see our shows. \u00a0Are you a Tivo fan?<\/div>\n

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      * \u00a0I was given a Tivo Roamio Plus with service as a part of the Tivo Moms team. \u00a0All opinions are my own.<\/div>\n
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      After all these years, we have Tivo Roamio once again in our household. It’s been showing our kids what a supercharged DVR is all about. Find out why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,14,283],"tags":[85,1153,2219,2220,2218],"class_list":["post-13148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dads","category-home-technology","category-moms","category-tv","tag-dvr","tag-netflix","tag-recorded-tv","tag-roamio","tag-tivo","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/p-content\/themes\/atahualpa342\/images\/articles\/2014\/05\/Reunited-with-Tivo-Main.jpg?fit=553%2C477&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}