Thank you for your patience. The following installation instructions summarize the steps to get your new Premiere Series box up and running. The information below indicates setup guidelines for your Premiere Series box with additional components.
Top Before you begin, make sure you complete the pre-installation checklist. To set up your Premiere Series box, you only need to make the following simple connections:.
I am using cable: Connect the coax cable from your wall to the back of your Premiere series box. I am using over-the-air antenna: Connect the coax cable from your digital antenna to the back of your Premiere series box. Premiere series boxes combine all of your entertainment needs TV, movies, web, and music in one box.
To get the full TiVo experience, you will need to connect your new box to the TiVo service with a high-speed network connection. These menus include the Discovery Bar and integrated search, to help you find shows whether they are on TV, on the web, or through Video On Demand from providers like Prime Video and Netflix.
The HD menus also have a built-in viewing window, so you can watch Live TV or a recorded show while you are navigating through the TiVo menu system. Here are a few ways you can connect your TiVo for HD quality:. You will hear audio distortion if you connect the yellow composite video connector AND the red-blue-green component video connectors between the TiVo box and your TV. If you set up a broadband connection to the TiVo service, you can use TiVo Search to find and view TV shows, web downloads, Video on Demand selections, and music from providers such as Pandora.
Connect the composite cable, which carries standard-definition analog video and audio signals. Make sure you also turn your TV on, and use the TV's remote control to select the input that matches the physical connection you made to your new TiVo box. You will see a Welcome screen and then some additional progress screens as your TiVo does a series of system checks during startup.
After you complete the physical connection, there are only a few more things to do:. The first time you start up your Premiere series box, it will begin Guided Setup. The Premiere series box will download a software update during Guided Setup and will then reboot to install the software. After the reboot, Guided Setup will resume automatically. It can take from hours to complete this initial Guided Setup.
If your cable provider is sending a technician to install your CableCARD, please make sure you set up your new TiVo box and complete Guided Setup before the installer arrives. During Guided Setup, you will be prompted to select the resolutions your TV supports and will be asked questions about what station is on a particular channel, which helps the TiVo box choose your channel lineup.
TiVo Roamio and Bolt units have wifi built in. Wifi is not an option. Standalone Series 2 TiVos that are connected to a cable box generally use an infrared "blaster" cable, which sends the remote control frequencies to the cable box. Using these cables generally results in a slight second delay when changing channels. Some cable boxes can use a direct serial cable connection, which is much faster. HD Standalone TiVos cannot use a cable box at all. Changing channels requires no additional cabling.
It is fast and easy. Almost all cable boxes and satellite boxes are compatible with standard definition TiVo units. However, some are not. For a complete listing, see the FAQ entry here. Again, no HD TiVos can use a cable box - see above. The Roamio OTA, however, works only with antenna. That line started with the HR20, through the HR Series 2 Standalone TiVos: No matter what the input source whether digital cable, analog cable, digital satellite or over-the-air antenna , the TiVo will receive an analog signal and then convert that signal into digital.
When converting from analog to digital, you will have the ability to tell the TiVo how much to compress the picture. Although the highest recording quality generally looks pretty close to the picture quality you'll see without a TiVo, there will be some although in most cases not a noticeable difference between the TiVo's quality and the quality without the TiVo.
As a general rule, the answer is no. DVRs provided by cable companies vary tremendously from city to city and cable company to cable company , so it's impossible to analyze those features.
As a general rule, our customers tend to dislike generic cable company DVRs and prefer the feature-rich TiVo-brand. Standard vs High Definition? Here is a summary of your options:. The two-tuner Premiere is great for customers who want to use both antenna AND cable or who live in apartment or other complexes such as senior citizens' homes that have cable systems that require an analog tuner. For discounted pricing, we recommend a visit to our page that has TiVos with prepaid lifetime service included.
These are typically older-model TiVos but they are priced aggressively and have lifetime service already paid. Your choices are our supply of refurbished Series 1 and Series2 units with pre-paid product lifetime TiVo service. These are single-tuner units that include "All In" TiVo service.
No additional payments to TiVo are required. You may need a cable box from your cable company to work with these TiVos. The genie has one satellite line running into it. However, you cannot share content between units or with any other DVRs and there are other feature limitations.
I found that it worked quite well with my OTA channels. Once given my location and data from my antenna, the device worked out what channels I got and downloaded their current schedules.
Once nice, but unfortunately not fully baked function, is that you can search for shows and movies simultaneously on both your OTA channels and on the Internet video services. I found this awkward though and sometimes the results were wrong. This probably had more to do with the video services than TiVo but it was still annoying. The interface to the Internet video services also don't have the same look and feel as the OTA channels.
It's not a deal-breaker, but it is a little jarring. You can't use your TiVo to surf the Web. On the other hand, it is easy to watch video recorded on one networked TiVo to another. This won't work with TiVo model 2s or older, but it worked fine with newer models.
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