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Chapter 7
Connecting to a Home Network
Introduction to Home Media Features
This chapter shows you how to connect your HUMAX DVD Recorder to a home network.
Doing so gives you brand new ways to use your Recorder as a digital home entertainment
center. Connect it to a home network and enjoy:
• Multi-Room Viewing – Record programs in the living room and watch them in the
bedroom–or vice versa. See page 113.
If you don’t have a home network, you can connect two Series2
TM
DVRs to each other
for Multi-Room Viewing. (Your HUMAX DVD Recorder is also a Series2 DVR.)
This setup is described in the Home Media Features guide, available online at
www.tivo.com/guides.
• Digital Music Player – Use the home entertainment center in your living room to
listen to the digital MP3 music collection stored on your computer. See page 114.
• Digital Photo Viewer – View slideshows of digital photos stored on your computer
without huddling around a small computer monitor. See page 114.
These Home Media Features are included with the TiVo
®
service. Connecting your
Recorder to a home network allows you to enjoy them. For more about using these
features, download the Home Media Features Guide at www.tivo.com/guides.
Connect to the TiVo service via broadband. If your home network includes an always-on
Internet connection (for example, DSL or a cable modem), your Recorder can use that
connection, instead of a phone line, for regular connections to the TiVo service. (The
Recorder will still need a standard phone line connection for Guided Setup.)
In addition, with an always-on Internet connection, you can use Online Scheduling (see
page 53) for any program airing more than an hour after you request it. (If your Recorder
is using a phone line, processing an Online Scheduling request can take up to 36 hours.)
If you do not already have a home
network and you want to learn how
to create one, Linksys — a leading
manufacturer of wireless and always-on
Internet connection networking
equipment — provides valuable
information on its web site at:
www.linksys.com/edu/.
Other online resources also describe the
steps and types of equipment used to set
up a home network. You can try going to a
popular search engine like Google
(www.google.com) or Yahoo
(www.yahoo.com) and typing the phrase,
“setting up a home network,” in the
search field. You will obtain a number of
search results (links) that supply
guidance to help you set up your home
network.
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