Nero LiquidTV™ lets you decide your TV program for yourself. You define which show, actor, director, and/or which TV series are interesting for you. Your customized program is available at the push of a button. Whenever you want, wherever you are.
Nero LiquidTV™ brings the TiVo® features to the personal computer with Season Pass™ recordings, WishList® searches, Parental Control, and KidZone. The Media Home Features with Multiroom-viewing let you decide not only what and when you watch, but also where you watch.
Online Scheduling
If you’re not at home, just use the online schedule feature to schedule recordings at any time.
The Online Scheduling is one of the easy-to-use features included as a part of the TiVo® service that allows you to schedule recordings for your Nero LiquidTV™ from any location with Internet access. To schedule a recording over the Internet: simply go to TiVo Central® Online on www.tivo.com
Online Scheduling or use MyTivo, find a program on a channel you receive, and create a recording request. The next time Nero LiquidTV™ connects to the TiVo® service it will receive the request and schedule the program to record. If you have an always-on connection it will connect every hour so you can schedule an hour before the program airs.
You can get a Season Pass™ or schedule a single recording, all with the same recording options programmed into your Nero LiquidTV™ at home.
Season Pass™
Nero LiquidTV™ automatically records each episode of your favorite series even if the network schedule changes. Repeated episodes can be recognized and skipped. The recording of Season Pass™ episodes is an exclusive TiVo® feature which enables you to record all episodes in a series. A Season Pass™ can be set up by using Guide or Find Programs in Nero LiquidTV™. From Find Programs you can also search by title, WishList®, or Suggestions.
From TiVo Central®, select Find Programs.
the Find Programs screen is displayed.
Now choose the desired category followed by the subcategory.
After you selected the matching program you’ll get the Get a Season Pass™ option. A Season Pass™ Confirmation screen is displayed. For information and managing Season Pass™, go to Season Pass™ Manager in Find Programs. The To Do List shows the scheduled programs. It ensures that the programs are recorded, or in case of conflicts, that the correct show is recorded. Recording History is a list of shows that were not recorded or shows which were deleted. It includes the reason why the shows were not recorded.
WishList®
Nero LiquidTV™ lets you decide your TV program for yourself. You define which show, actor, director, and/or which TV series are interesting for you. Your customized program is available in the WishList® option.
Find programs that match your interests. Search by keyword, actor, category, or any other combination.
You can record matching programs individually or auto-record all programs that match. For example:
- Actors in movies (Actor: HANKS, TOM & Category: Movies)
- Favorite Team (Keyword: GIANTS & Category: Sports: Football)
- Hobby (Keyword: SCUBA)
To make changes to your WishList® Search, go to the Season Pass™ Manager in Find Programs. You will find a list of all Season Pass™ Recordings and WishList® Searches. Just select one of the recordings to make changes.
Parental Controls and KidZone features
To protect children, Nero LiquidTV™ offers a KidZone and a detailed Parental Control feature which allow only shows and channels which are approved by a parent to be available for children to watch.
Adjust your settings to display just the shows you pre-approved for your kids every time the television is on – both live and recorded TV. When enabled, KidZone keeps the parents’ Now Playing List separate from the one for the kids. Just enter your child’s age, and appropriate rating and channel limits are automatically set for you. You can also override the rating information and decide which programs to allow/hide in KidZone. Just lock/unlock it with a password.
To set up KidZone, go to TiVo Central® Messages & Settings Settings choose Parental Control & KidZone
the Parental Control & KidZone screen is displayed
Press select to set the age range
After setting the age range you can select the user (for the set up user accounts on your computer) who will automatically start up in KidZone when launching Nero LiquidTV™.
Suggestions
Your TiVo® remote control has two special buttons: a green THUMBS UP and a red THUMBS DOWN button. Use them to give any program, live or recorded, your personal rating. Nero LiquidTV™ uses your THUMBS ratings to suggest other programs you might like – these are TiVo® Suggestions.
Over time, the more you use the THUMBS buttons, the better Nero LiquidTV™ will be at finding programs you like.
Nero LiquidTV™ may automatically record TiVo® Suggestions if hard drive space is available. But these recordings will never replace shows you request or prevent them from being recorded.
Media Home Features
Nero LiquidTV™ is capable of integrating with other networked TiVo® DVRs and Nero LiquidTV™ copies: Multi-Room Viewing.
Transfer shows between different Nero LiquidTV™ copies as well as between TiVo® DVRs and Nero LiquidTV™ copies.
Multi-Room viewing allows you to transfer programs from Nero LiquidTV™ to a TiVo® DVR. For transfers you need to subscribe the DVR to your TiVo® account. Also, the DVR needs to be connected to the same subnetwork on your network (most home networks have only one subnetwork).
Transfers must be enabled in Manage My Account on the TiVo® website. Log in to your account and click DVR Preferences on the left navigation bar. Make sure that the respective checkmark is activated in the Allow Transfers column next to each DVR from which you would like to transfer programs.
The transfer can be enabled in TiVo Central® Now Playing
Refer to the following document for more information: FAQ - Getting Started with MultiRoom viewing
Export TV shows to your iPod® or PSP®
Your customized TV program is as mobile as you are – burn your recorded shows to DVD, export them to iPod®/PSP®, or move them between different devices in your local network. You can also save space by converting them to a compressed format to experience the best audio and video quality at just a fraction of the size.
Nero LiquidTV™ is capable of converting your TV recordings to a compressed format which is four to six times smaller than the original version. Converted recordings will be placed in a folder named Nero Digital Conversions on your Now Playing List. These recordings can also be played on some consumer electronics devices (e.g. the iPod®, PSP®).
EPG (Electronic Program Guide)
Nero LiquidTV™ includes one year of TiVo® service so that Nero LiquidTV™ | TiVo® PC allows you to be in control of when, where, and how you watch TV right from the start. The integrated electronic program guide (EPG) has up-to-date listings for wherever you live in the USA, Canada, or Mexico.
The Guide information will be provided 14 days ahead of time to make sure that you will be informed when your programs are aired.
The program information will be gathered the first time when the Guided Setup is run. If you want to connect again, go into TiVo Central® Messages & Settings Settings Network.
Choose Connection and Connect to TiVo Service® now.
You will then receive your program information. Go to Guide for the overview.