If I buy a tivo unit for my directv. Can i take it with me on trips, I am working out of town all week, and I was concerned about the need of the unit to update itself without the phone line hooked up? Or should I just use the regular reciever?
Methinks the phone line is so they can tell what you have been watching and whether to charge you for movies. Mine hasn't had the phone line hooked up since I moved (over 100 days) and still works fine. Every morning it "records" Tivo content unless I tell it to not do so as I am usually watching something more important.