TiVo Series2 Digital Video Recorder (*TiVo Service Fee Not Included)
TiVi compatibility with Sony A-50 receivers
This product has great recording properties and is easy to use real time, but trying to connect it to my Sony A-50 Direct TV reveivers proved impossible. We have two receivers lashed together with a modulator to send two sattlite channels to all the TVs in the house. They are located remotely and we use an RF remote to control them. With this lashup the TiVo would not change the channels on the receiver using the TiVo remote.<br />Also, the TiVo remote was IR line-of-sight causing us to run long serial and/or IR lines to from the receivers to the TiVo unit, and we could not get it to change the channels on the receivers. Even when we placed the TiVo unit right next to the receivers we were unable to get it to change the channels. <br />After working in this for almost two straight weeks we gave up and are returning the TiVo to Amazon.com.