What Cable Boxes are Compatible with TiVo?
Richard says all known cable boxes are controllable by TiVo. When there is a new cable box without existing IR codes, they borrow a remote, suck the codes out of it, and add support for it via an update. In spite of the serial cable included with many TiVos, there is only serial support for Series 2 AT&Tivo users who have a DCT2000 cable box. Also the cable box must have the correct software. Here’s a note from TiVo about Motorola cable boxes: “Motorola recently bought General Instruments and relabeled all of their units from GI to Motorola. The GI/General Instruments codes works on these units. We are working on adding Motorola to the list of codes but I haven’t been able to verify when this will occur yet.” — Michael G Caine, TiVo Customer Care Some GI boxes were actually made by Clearview. Thus, you may find the IR codes you need to control your GI box under the Clearview selections. For example, some have found Clearview code 10019 to work for a DCT-2244, or Clearview 10021 for a
