What is the use of standby?

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wkearney99 wrote:
2. It's safer it you were hit with a power glitch.

No it's not. This was a surprise but there's nothing it does to sync or
otherwise shutdown the filesystem when using the standby feature.

Besides, the root filesystem is mounted read-only in normal operation.
Pulling the plug won't kill it. I would think that the custom filesystem
TiVo uses to hold video is tolerant of power outages and such.

(Keep in mind there's no keyboard on which you can punch in "shutdown -h
now"...the whole system is designed so that it won't be damaged if you
unplug it (like a TV or a VCR when you want to move it) or if the power goes
out.)

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In article ,
says...

The stand-alone does not record suggestions if the remote control
has been used in the previous 30 minutes. Putting the TiVo into
standby allows suggestions to record immediately.

Huh? Reference please because I don't agree. I was just using the
remote to watch a couple of recorded shows - plus skipping commercials -
and deleting. And Tivo started recording a suggestion just fine and it
certainly hadn't been 10 minutes since the remote was used much less 30.
This is a standalone S2.
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Jud Hardcastle shaped the electrons to say:
Huh? Reference please because I don't agree. I was just using the
remote to watch a couple of recorded shows - plus skipping commercials -

He was a bit off - if the remote has been used within 30 minutes in
LiveTV.

Just playing recordings or working in the menus doesn't reset the
timer.

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In article ,
says...
Jud Hardcastle shaped the electrons to say:
Huh? Reference please because I don't agree. I was just using the
remote to watch a couple of recorded shows - plus skipping commercials -

He was a bit off - if the remote has been used within 30 minutes in
LiveTV.

Just playing recordings or working in the menus doesn't reset the
timer.

Ah. Now if I could just remember when the last time it was that I
watched live tv :-)
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Jud
Dallas TX USA

The reason to go to Standby is so you can watch real-time TV while
you're recording a real-time TV show on another channel.

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:43:49 -0500, GaryM wrote:

Standalone. What you describe is what I am seeing and why I questioned
it basic utility.

TiVo reps have pretty much said it's there to appease people who want to
have a way to "turn it off" -- it's a psychological sap with no real
practical value for most people. (Though the video passthrough can be
useful to some people in some configurations, but if you aren't using it
already you probably aren't in one of those configurations.)

--
"It is more uplifting to find the beauty, wonder, spirituality, and
reverence in what we can see, than to imagine they only exist in what we
can't see." - http://www.sover.net/~hawthorn/

I use the standby feature on a regular basis...
I have two S-Video signals "Y" connected, and when I use my DVD player, I
set the TiVo to standby to eliminate the non-sync video problem. It's a bit
kludgey, but it works!

Dave

"Frank J. Perricone" wrote in message
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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:43:49 -0500, GaryM wrote:

Standalone. What you describe is what I am seeing and why I questioned
it basic utility.

TiVo reps have pretty much said it's there to appease people who want to
have a way to "turn it off" -- it's a psychological sap with no real
practical value for most people. (Though the video passthrough can be
useful to some people in some configurations, but if you aren't using it
already you probably aren't in one of those configurations.)

--
"It is more uplifting to find the beauty, wonder, spirituality, and
reverence in what we can see, than to imagine they only exist in what we
can't see." - http://www.sover.net/~hawthorn/

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 08:37:45 -0500, GaryM
wrote:

can someone tell me why I would ever put my
machine in stand by.

My receiver uses the presence of an audio input to activate and select
source. After receiving no signal for some amount of time (around
10min I think), it will shut down itself and the amplifier.

Putting the TiVo in standby kills the audio-out, and lets my receiver
work the way it is intended.