TiVo and DirecTV in a Cellular-Only Household?

Balthisar asks: "Like so many others, my wife and I have recently made the move to pure mobile telephone use, and have disconnected the landline permanently. Today, I turned on the TiVo and received a stern warning that only three days of the program guide remained! I screwed up. Anyone have a good emergency way of refreshing the program guide while I wait for my TiVo networking card to come in? An additional concern is DirecTV: I never use Pay Per View, but it's not connected, either. Any horror stories about not having your DirecTV connected to a phone line? If you don't have any advice, at least take this as a cautionary tale to make a good checklist before taking the leap of eliminating your terrestrial line!" This topic was handled in a previous article over 2 years ago. What suggestions do you have for others, that find themselves in this position?

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[kinema]

Why not turn off the TV for a few days and read a good book? If you need sugjestions I would recomend Farenhite 451 or for a longer title take a look at Crime and Punishment.

Bozo

[SkewlD00d]

DirecTV sends guide update data for TiVo on the Discovery Channel in the middle of the night (because those cheap bastards don't give you 24 hours/day of programming). The phone line is for some DRM or similar other data to keep you from using the equipment for free (that you paid for). This is total razor-blades/inkjet-cartridge greed. And, they fucking spy on you. Use MythTV or other real DVR. TiVo is the Apple of DVR "pay-pay-pay for those updates! 10.2? we're not going fix that, get 10.3 for $130. who cares if your iPod battery doesnt work? or you have to class-action sue us to fix the powerpc powerbook or iBook." Btw, class-action's are a fucking joke.... opt-out bullshit, pennies-on-the-dollar, sweet-heart, slap-on-the-wrist carte-blanc that globally denies any further action against a defendent forever. The legal system is completely gamed in favor of the rich... one only need to look at the constiuency of jails. *cough* OJ *cough* Jackson *cough* Bill Gates *cough* Ken Lay *cough* robber-barrons rule forever... stop dilluding ourselves, there exists an aristocratic, mega-wealthy elite that are effectively above-the-law. Wow, this was related somehow to TiVo? Colin Powell's son, the FCC Chairman, (Nepotism?) sez it's "God's device." I wonder if that somehow violates the spirit of the "Seperation between Church and State." Oops, did i say "spirit?" I meant comps and free trips from the MPAA and big media conglomerates are somehow rationalised as "not bribes." Who the fuck are the kidding, themselves?