A few people have stumbled upon this site after searching for Tivo. This is my third Olympics that I will be Tivo'ing, and I have some tips for anybody that wants to catch as much of the Olympics as they can, without making the rest of their family mad.

• The Tivo will list the Olympics as "XXI Winter Olympics". You can find it by looking for that name, or you can just go to the time and channel of the show that you want to record.
• Once you have found one episode of the Olympics that you want to watch, it's easy to record the other ones. Select "view upcoming episodes" and you'll see a list of the upcoming Olympics events for up to two weeks in advance (since the Olympics lasts for 16 days, you won't be able to set the Tivo to record everything right now).
• Under "view upcoming episodes", you'll be able to see what sports are being aired. Hockey and curling episodes are generally full-length games; the other airings usually show several sports in one episode.
• If your family wants to watch prime-time programming, you don't have to be selfish and tell them that they just have to skip it. You can record the same episode later that night; the rebroadcast usually starts sometime between 12:30 and 2 AM, and it will have the same heading as the primetime broadcast.
• Mid-day programming usually only airs once. There are a couple of ways around this. 1) you could check to see if your other program airs more than once. 2) if you have cable, you can try recording one show and watching the other (you'll have to set up your television to do this though). 3) you can get one of the newer, Series 3 Tivos that can record two channels at once (they don't work with satellite though). 4) if all else fails, you can try to find out if your missed programming also will be shown at universalsports.com.
• If you have a show that you want to watch that's on at the same time as the Olympics, you don't have to miss the entire Olympic episode. You can set up a manual recording to record the part of the Olympics that doesn't interfere with your show.
• If you have a small Tivo like mine (I have the 40 hour Tivo), you might end up running out of room on your Tivo's hard drive. That's where the Tivo Desktop software comes in. When your Tivo runs low on space, all you have to do is transfer it to your desktop computer. Hopefully you're not low on hard disk space. Alternatively, if you have a Series 3 Tivo, you can buy a DVR expander. This will hold a lot more programming for you. If you use the Tivo Desktop, you can either watch the Olympics on your computer (nice if your kids are sick of watching the Olympics all day) or you can send it back to the Tivo to watch on your television later. You may want to check your Tivo Desktop now, before you need it; sometimes it randomly stops working on me and I have to reset it.

By using these tips, you should be able to watch just about as much Olympics coverage as you can handle, while not alienating family members that aren't so enthusiastic about the Olympics.