To all:
I have a Sony 777es receiver, a satellite receiver, a dvd, vcr and a brand new TIVO from Sony. What I'm trying to do is to get TIVO to do what its supposed to do off the SAT signal. Everything is going into the receiver in this way:

SAT -> SAT in on receiver
VCR -> Video1
TIVO ->Video2
Monitor out -> TV
Cable TV -> direct into TIVO

I can switch to video2 and I get TIVO. I switch to video1 and I get the vcr. But when I switch to TV/SAT I get the sat but no TIVO. My question is how do you hook up all these devices into the receiver so I can use the reciever to control the TIVO and the sat at the same time (to record off the sat signal). I tried the REC/EDIT feature of the receiver but I get no signal to the recording device (the TIVO OR the vcr for that matter). Please help me figure this out.

Thanks...

Unless I'm unclear on your hook-up, I don't see where you are putting the sat signal into Tivo. If you're trying to record sat with TiVo and watch sat (bypassing TiVo) at the same time, you'd have to watch the same channel that TiVo is recording. Remember, TiVo changes the channel on the sat box (via IR or the serial port. TiVo has a built in tv/cable tuner (like a VCR), but not a sat "tuner".

Steve13:

Your absolutely right.

I was thinking that if I switch the receiver to TV/SAT it would output the signal to video1 and video2 hence inputting the signal to TIVO and my VCR simultaneously. It doesn't. What I was trying to do was make the receiver control everything. Its an expensive toy and I wanted it to control TIVO, not the other way around which I guess can't be done...

Thanks for the reply...