I ready to "change the way we watch TV" and looking to get a Tivo box with a DVD recorder. Looking for tips and recommendations or warnings. Will be using it with HD cable, and my Denon 2805 receiver. Thanks

You will not be able to use a regular TIVO with a HD cable box. If you can, get DirecTV and the HDTIVO and you'll be happy. Also, consider getting a Over the Air antenna to receive your local channles in HD.

Thanks SkyBird, will Tivo and a HD Cable box simply not work, or just not give me HD Tivo replay? I just went through the rewireing, adding a line amplifier etc to get my HD cable and other TV's to work, and I dont think I could make the switch to satellite at this point.

I would be willing to lose the HD quality on my Tivo replays if thats what it takes

Problem is the HD cable box outputs in component cables, the regular TIVO is not compatible because it does not have component IN.

If you have a regualr "digital cable box" you could do it.

Bye,Bye HD

One more thing. Make sure you can live without HD before you buy the TIVO because once you get TIVO there's no going back.

On the other hand, you could use the coaxial connection on the back of the cable box then go into the TIVO.

But then,you would only have one wire going into the TIVO unit. preventing you from watching something and recording something else at the same time.

You couldn't split the cable before the cable box because then you would be missing channels on one side of the TIVO.

You couldn't split it after because you would only receive the signal(channel) the cable box is on. defeating the purpose of a TIVO.

What cable company do you have? Comcast?

Cablevision.

Thanks for all your help here

The cable HD box should either be a pioneer, or motorola. The HD cable box will fine with TIVO provided your Cable service is on Tivos's list. You just hook up the S-Video, and L/R audio to your TiVo from your HD cable box, and component from your Cable box directly to your TV, and your in business. You may have to get RCA Y adapters for the L/R audio, cause sometimes there is only one L/R audio output, unless you want to use L/R audio, for Tivo, and Dolby Digital RCA, or Digital optical to an audio/video reciever for HD viewing. The only way this will not work, is if the cable box shuts off the composet/s-video while veiwing component.

This message was edited by Cablebusters on 10/18/04 23:27 ET.

Does cable vision have a DVR that will record HD. I know time warner and Insight cable has motorola HD DVRs with 10 HRs HD and 100 hours SD. It also only costs 8 bucks a month for time warner. Check it out.

Mike