Tivo saving season pass data?

Do you have Tivo desktop connected to it?

Wonder if it could store such data?

"Rex Mundi" <RexMundi RemoveThis @invalid.org> wrote in message
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> The hard drive on my S2-DT died friday. It had so many errors that I
> couldn't make a backup.
>
> I used InstantCake to make a new drive, put that into the tivo and
> after the tivo was setup and running fine, started re-entering as much
> of my season pass programs as I could remember.
>
> A few days later I noticed that all my old season pass data, including
> the wish list entries that I hadn't re-entered had been restored.
>
> I'm happy. Very happy, but also curious. Where did the data come
> from? Tivo must have saved it on their end and reloaded it. When did
> that start happening?
>
> All the SP data that I re-entered was duplicated, so I had to
> painfully delete the duplicates.

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:27:20 -0600, chrisb.DeleteThis@balder.sabir.com wrote:
> It would be a nice thing to have available more generally!

And not on just a "Don't panic, wait a couple of days, see if the
faeries put it all back for you" basis... (:

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> This seems to be a partially implemented feature

I'd love to have a way to use Tivo Desktop to do it.

Bill Kearney wrote:
>> This seems to be a partially implemented feature
>
> I'd love to have a way to use Tivo Desktop to do it.

Could it be unintended consequences of the data collection so they can post
stats on "most recorded"?

"Peter Pan" <PeterPanNOSPAM DeleteThis @MarcAlanNOSPAM.info> shaped the electrons to say:
>Could it be unintended consequences of the data collection so they can post
>stats on "most recorded"?

No, they get all of that from the log files on the unit.

It is related to Guru Guides and KidZone. If you turn either of them
on you're prompted to 'Opt-in' including granting permission for them
to upload some personally identifiable information from your box.
This is because both Guru Guides and KidZone have web-based management
components and they need to have your SP/ARWL list on the server to
keep it in sync with the Guru Guides or KidZone recording settings.

This was discussed with TiVo when these features launched, they
confirmed this is what is happening.

I would like to see them expand on this and let us REALLY manage our
settings from the web. As well as deliberately backing up and
restoring the settings when we want to.

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On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 06:45:08 +0000 (UTC) newsREMOVE.DeleteThis@THISmegazone.org (MegaZone) wrote:

M> I would like to see them expand on this and let us REALLY manage our
M> settings from the web. As well as deliberately backing up and
M> restoring the settings when we want to.

Including thumbs up/down ratings, this is my #1 wish feature, so I hope
TiVo implements it.

Ted