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You shouldn't need to. Just keep typing :)

ETA:
Actually, you can safely ignore that advice; both the manuals and also, therefore, mine as well.

I just tried it and you should type the name in as normal; ie FIRSTNAME SURNAME; ie TOM CRUISE.

ISTR I actually had this problem when I first got my VM Tivo. I put in an name in the way the manual said to and only just found out in time (or I would have missed something she was in) that it was wrong :(

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Okay. This one's been bugging me so I just had another go.

Search for the actor above then press OK. Then, from 'More Info' select option to 'create wishlist', which then creates a wishlist with the name in 'LASTNAME, FIRSTNAME' format.

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That works, but you can also do it from create wishlist -> actor. The comma is the the top right corner.

MarkC: which screen can't you find the comma on?

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Any of them. I must be looking in the wrong place, because I put the last name then can't find a comma so just do the first name then surname. Will have another look though.

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Ignore the option 'from the beginning' on the right hand side.

Press ok instead of the right directional button and you will resume from where you left off.

In other words the default option is 'resume' you are deselecting that by moving over to the 'from beginning' option. It is confusing initially as it looks like that option is already selected as it is visible.

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Will have another look then as I've never seen it :(

Can't say I've looked much though as I usually use my Tivo Slide Remote to enter text with :)

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OK, possibly it's new in the 15.3 software, in which case you'll get it within a few weeks.

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Yes. That'll be it. I know I wear glasses but I don't think I'd miss a comma if it had been there :p:

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Anyone else having issues with the TiVo box this morning? Changing channels is slow and sluggish, sometimes it takes up to 5 minutes for a picture to come through. Watching a recorded show as well took ages, as once I hit fast forward it was static then went rushing forward about 5 minutes so I had to rewind and have the same problem. Getting annoyed with it, and tempted to kick it to see if it helps solve it!

Would a restart of the box work?

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That's normally the first course of action in cases like this. Just make sure you pick the one that just re starts the box and not the one that deletes series links etc.

If that doesn't work, try unplugging the box for a few minutes.

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No problems here today.

LOL! Yes. That could be embarrassing :D

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I made sure I did the correct option, and it seems to be OK now. Thanks.

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An app for this would be handy

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/media/s1...-blinkbox.html

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Yes indeed it would.:)

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Do we know how far ahead of the DVD release it is, and how do prices compare?

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I want one of those slide remotes. Are the US slide remotes compatible with the VM TiVo's?

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Mostly, yes. With just a couple of omissions but nothing critical.

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Don't you need a Bluetooth dongle for the U.S. slide remotes? As far as I recall they also have the red/green/yellow/blue buttons differently placed. I may be wrong (so the Wife tells me) :)

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I believe the remote comes with the appropriate dongle

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Indeed it do.

Have attached a photo for comparison :)

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Thank you Gentlemen, I shall be ordering one soon :)

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Thanks :)

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I am sure that members know about my TiVo box problems and the the amount of engineers to come out and repair it.

Well have a guess what happened on Monday - yes, it went wrong again, and the engineer called again today and have a guess - they done the same as before.

I have spoken with an engineer where l work in Ealing and he told be the exact problem again and told me it needs a NEW cable to the house and that the TiVo box needs a signal of 0.6 to 6. Why is it that Engineers know the problem where l work, but not the engineers where l live.

I simply give up.

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As pointed out to you before Arthur have you contacted the CEO's office and explained the problems that you are having? Plus also what you have been told as well?

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Hi Devilincarnate, I have sent an email to Niel Berkett, Niel Hartham and received £30.00 in discount as a sweeteners.

Been told that it will be fixed properly, been told that a senior engineer will call (that was a trainee that turned up) received a call from another manager and was told that the booster was installed as it would cost too much money to change the cable, It needs a new cable as we have an old cable from the Kelly days.

I was told by TWO engineers where l work in Ealing, and both have said the same The cable needs replacing as a start, as the cable we have now is not strong enough for the TiVo box.

They also said that it is no good increasing the power signal at the main box if the cable is not strong enough.

The CEO's office have been told many times, my wife doesn't want to cause problems, but l have said that WE are paying for this, and l accept that problems will arise, BUT not SIX times now, on the same problems.

Prime examplr, we recorded Mrs Browns Boys the other night as we had guest's went to look at the recording - and my god it was a terrible recording - all white squares, freeze of picture.

This is what we have to put up with, if l had a hammer l would smash the damn thing and go back to Sky.

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I would contact the CEO again and say the problem has not been fixed and also state what you have ben told by the people that you have spoken too as well.

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How long does it take for the Suggestions folder in My Shows take to fill up with shows? I only noticed this morning that the option to record Suggestions was turned off, so after turning it on only 3 things appeared there. Does it take a few weeks to populate fully?

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It depends on how much you :tu: and :td: stuff and can vary even then. Sometimes I have a lot in my list and sometimes I don't. (I don't 'auto-record' then though anyway.)

You have to remember that "it's not an exact science", as they say :)

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Thanks Carl. Been 3 weeks tomorrow since installation, and I am still getting to know it. I suppose it will take time for me to get used to it doing most of the work for me, I still find myself going through channels looking for something to watch, instead of looking at the suggestions list.

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Three weeks should be enough to get some suggestions in there. I mostly ignore them completely myself as I have enough to watch without them.

Quick tip. If you occasionally find yourself recording something but don't want Tivo making any suggestions based on it (I sometimes record a news bulletin, for example) then give it a :td: before setting it to record :)

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Champions League app comes to TiVo.

http://www.virginmedia.com/tvradio/n...es-to-tivo.php

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I have not got that app in my menu like it says, but can access red button champions league on SkySports.

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Hopefully it will work, went to watch something on the Sports channels at the weekend with the red button and it froze the box. Had to switch off at wall and switch back on to get it going again.

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Yes the same on my box as well so maybe they have jumped the gun again with this press release.

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It's not here either but I have noticed that in the Sky Sports App thingy, they still have all the old prices listed. Tut-tut.

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Sounds similar to this but via the TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGdoY...e_gdata_player

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Looks good MM and thanks for the link.

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I've networked two of my three TiVo's and this morning I noticed that at I could see the other networked box listed at the bottom of My Shows and view everything recorded onto it. I was able to delete a recording on the "kitchen box" from the "bedroom box" but streaming is still disabled, as indicated by the symbol next to each recording. Is this since 15.3 came along or was it there prior?

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I can see no difference between how it was on 15.2 and what it is now on 15.3

You could see the other boxes and delete things, but not stream on 15.2

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I hadn't scrolled to the bottom of My Shows until today so I have no idea whether other network boxes would have shown there, or not, or whether it was previously possible to view and delete recordings from other boxes.

Just seen you've added a second sentence! Explains it. :)

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Yes, I realised that my first attempt at a reply wasn't as clear as it should have been :)

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I can't do either LOL.

Is this supposed to be working today???? The atricle does say

As the Champions League gets underway

So does that mean when more matches start to be played or what?

...hang on there IS no champions league on tonight is there???

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When I delete programmes, I forget to go in and delete them from Deleted Recordings. As such,I now have a week's worth of programmes in there. Will they delete themselves after a time, or do I have to go through and do it myself manually?

And does it take up the allotted free space for recordings?

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They'll go automatically, and it doesn't affect space for new recordings. Save yourself the bother of deleting them twice - just ignore them.

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Thanks Andy, the engineer when installing wasn't very good with explaining the deleting side of things.

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If they didn't leave a manual, here is a copy..

http://www.virginmedia.com/tivo/tivo_complete_guide.pdf

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US Open tennis working very well and quickly... nice one!!!! Can i ask; the press release mentioned 'eight matches at once and has a Multi-View feature, allowing games to be viewed in different formats.'

I see six choices (not complaining at that) but where and what are the different formats?

Also You can find the app in the Apps & Games section of your TiVo menu page. I don't have this in the apps page!

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I don't know about the apps but the Sky red button for the US Open is by far the best red button offering I've seen on TiVo and works so very well. I guess (and I'm more than likely wrong) the different formats would be a way of describing the menu, press info for a massive amount of information.

The BBC's Olympics, great but they should take a look at this one. It just shows it wasn't the power of the TiVo that made it painfully clunky! The BBC don't even think dates are relevant on their news or sports red button/apps.

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I know that there has been a lot of discussion about the need for 'reminders' and that facility has now arrived. Could somebody explain the relevance. The reminder seems to be associated with the record function. If you have gone to the trouble of deciding that you want to record a programme and set Tivo to record, why would you need a reminder that you have done this? Even if you forget that you have set the programme to record what's the problem or am I being obtuse??

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Some people like to watch certain events (like sports) live. Which is fine. They wanted Tivo to just remind them that [live event] was starting and do they want to watch it now. Which is fine.

Unfortunately, due to the way that Tivo works, simply popping up such a reminder does not seem to be possible. No-one knows why for certain. So they implemented it the best way they could.

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And l for one am just happy that we in our household can set a reminder facility even though it records at the same time because that way we don't miss our favourite events plus if somethings crops up we always have the recording to fall back on just in case.

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Well, considering the topic, a very diplomatic, ballanced reply. Anyone seen the real Carl Waring around? Just kidding :D

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He asked why they worked the way they did; not if reminders were actually necessary :p: :D

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Very well summed up Carl. :)

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http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/4713...eam-hits-us-uk

Interesting.

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Not very, as it wouldn't be of any use to me. I would hope if they do launch this, that prices don't go up because of the streaming on the go feature. I would imagine only a small percentage in UK have an iPhone or iPad.

And looking at the price on launch in America to get this streaming feature is $130 one off fee, which on current currency rates means UK users need to pay roughly £83 for the service. No thanks. Would rather not have this streaming feature.

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Am I right in thinking that if I just unplugged all the leads from the TiVo and V+ boxes and switched them around it would work? It's just I recorded something on the V+ box and wanted to watch it on the bigger TV downstairs.

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Yes. I'm sure there 's someone on here who had TiVo installed and the v+ moved upstairs, found they hated TiVo and swapped them around with no problems.

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Thanks, might do that one day then.

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It was I :) !& have swapped back again,no problem

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When I set the record function for 3 programmes in a row on the same channel (or different channels) each time TIVO is about to record said individual programme the channel banner comes up on the bottom of the screen like it does when I'm changing channels. I find this annoying, any reason why it happens? Don;t remember V+ doing this!

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To clarify. Do you actually mean three in a row (ie consecutive) or three things at once?

Either way, I've never seen that happen; though I don't often record three things either consecutively or at once.

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If you mean recording three shows, one after the other on the same channel then its because TiVo doesn't use the same tuner for back to back recordings, so it is actually changing the channel each time a new show starts, and displaying the banner as a result.

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My point was it shouldn't be displaying any banners, whichever the OP means.

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I get banners if I'm watching something in delay and the recording finishes before I've caught up.

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What sort of banners? The only one I ever see is "have you done with this show".

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It’s the one you see when you change channel. If you’re already watching a particular channel when a recording starts or ends then the banner appears.

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Oh, right. Never see that as I always watch the recording and never live :)

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You also see it if you’re watching an in-progress recording and the recording finishes.

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I still watch some sport live, or at least catch up shortly after its started. It can be a bit irritating as you'll often miss a couple of seconds of action

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Only if you're watching live; ie have previously pressed the "Live TV" button. If you watch from a recording you don't see it; only the 'have you done with this..' one :)

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Lew means if you're recording something, and you start to watch it from "my shows" before its fully recorded, you see a banner when the recording finishes even though you haven't finished watching it. Not sure if I've explained that very well, but I know what he means and have experienced the same.

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Which is what I do.

Which I have never yet seen. Which is why I'm :confused: But that's possibly because I rarely catch up to live, and if I do I usually stop the recording myself :)

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Yes Andy, that's exactly it and I understand why this happens now, thanks... doesn't stop it being annoying though!

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It sometimes kills the buffer of whatever you were watching as well, rather annoying.

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Yeah, Ben have you had any official complaints about this mate?

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I used to record boxing "live" to DVD but don't anymore due to this very problem. I'm a quality freak. Having the programme banner popping up during the broadcast bugs the hell out of me and ruins the recording. I now record all shows to DVD from recording now instead, which is a pain.

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It does if you don't add any padding :)

Only if you watch things live ;)

---------- Post added at 17:52 ---------- Previous post was at 17:51 ----------

Huh? It has to kill the buffer when it switches channels or starts/stops recording. It can't not do that.

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Sure it can, but tivo would have to change how the tuners handle recording. I'm surprised the actual recordings are done in such a clunky way, would have expected tivo to have used a more virtual recording methodology rather than on/off and that's your lot.

It's really annoying, especially if you are watching something after a live program that was being recorded with some extra padding. Once that recording finishes, your buffer is wiped and you can't rewind back to anything that was already on. I'm pretty sure if you had it delayed it also skips you ahead to live as well.

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The other day i found some old VHS tapes i wanted to watch and dug out the old video player to watch them on. I realise we pay a subscription fee with Tivo and expect a billion wonderful new things a year but watching these old tapes reminded me just how far we have come. You could only record one thing and watch another - no series link. If you had sky and managed to wire it up to record onto your VHS then you could not change the channel at all. No pause live tv - no rewinding because someone coughed during an important bit - no catch up or on demand - less channels obviously - rubbish quality but we still thought Dvd was amazing - much less space to record etc etc
I did not realise just how much i have to be grateful for. Consequently i wont really moan that there are not enough +1 channels or boo hoo no sky atlantic... it is basically amazing - glitches and all.
I am not a Luddite or technophobe just sometimes its nice to be reminded of how things were and how even then they were cool...

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Nicely put. Remember the good old days when your video would eat the tape, or a tape would get jammed in the machine?

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How infuriating was that? Or the crappy over watched tapes that needed tracking - remember tracking!!!!? Jiggery pause and having to put selotape over the the little square hole to record on tapes you were not meant to record over. LP to double the recording time... ah the halcion days of yesteryear.

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I remember the young lad in the video rental shop that could not be bothered to wind the tapes back, so you watched the end of the film instead of the start:(:D

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I remember how difficult it was to program the VCR to record. You were never sure you got it right. Now its one button. So much progress sometimes you forget.

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You mean you never used the video plus codes printed in the Radio Times (hard copy, natch)??

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My TiVo EPG seems to be missing a lot of information. Usually I can go ahead 13 or 14 days and get full channel and programme information however my full listings only go up until Friday the 19th October. After this date only a limited selection of channels have full listings. There's nothing for any of the BBC or ITV channels. Channels like Film 4 simply have "Movie" listed in each time slot. I first noticed this on Monday night and thought ti would have been updated by now.

Anyone else having this problem? Why is it happening? When will it be fixed? Isn't around £3 of my monthly subscription going towards keeping the EPG up to date?

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Virgin, TiVo or TMS are not to blame here. UK Terrestrial channels only issue 7-9 days of listings. I personally have never, ever witnessed 14 Days from the BBC.

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You were supposed to rewind the tapes before returning them to the shop. There was a sign asking you to do so :D

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I upgraded to a TiVo box last week, and up until Thursday night have been very happy with it. Then on Thursday evening I set it to record Homefront on ITV1 and Plane Crash on Channel 4, both at 2100 (9pm), so that I could watch Hunted live on BBC1. Just before 9pm a message came on my screen to say that I would have to move to another channel or it would not be able to record one of my programmes!!

I thought TiVo could allow you to watch one channel live whilst recording two others. I'm sure that's what it say in the blurb. :rolleyes:

Anyone else had this problem? When I phoned customer services they just said it shouldn't happen and left it at that.

Luckily I managed to watch one of my programmes on Catch Up TV this morning.

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It doesn't always pick the correct tuner. All you have to do is let it change to record that show, then manually change channel and its should then use the third tuner.

Unless there was a suggestion being recorded?

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Did you have another recording ending at 9pm (plus padding) maybe? Or as Stephen says, it may just be it decided to use the current live tuner. It can do this if you haven't pressed any buttons for an hour.

A Suggestion should never make your planned recordings fail.

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Thanks for response and the poster above you. There were no other recordings set or padding from any other recording although the two I had set to record had a couple of minutes at the start.

Would a box reset be a good idea do you think?

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Tivo can do that, but Tivo (unlike V+) can also record 3 channels at the same time. Personally, I record everything I watch, even if I think I may a watch a particular show live, as that way it reserves the tuners.

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No, I doubt it. I'm sure there's a good explanation for what happened - we just need to find it.

How did you resolve the issue?

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We have a 2 minute before and after set for all recordings. Never had a problem until last Tuesday evening. Series link was recording (I think, The Glades and Haven at 9.00 PM). We were watching the darts on Sky Sports but had paused the live coverage to plate dinner. (We are peasants and sometimes use trays rather than sit at the dining table, can't see the TV from there). Tivo was scheduled to record another programme at 10.00PM. We had a pop up asking whether to clip or cancel one of the recordings in progress. My assumption is that, despite only having two red recording led's lit, the darts were in buffer. Not really an issue but made me think WTF for a moment. The missus asked why it did that, as there were only two tuners active (or as she put it "There's only two red lights on so why is it doing that?"). Am I correct or do I just tiptoe away?

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I think the issue people are having is that even 2 things are being recorded watching live tv is in effect a third recording to allow for pausing rewinding etc.

Each recording in the TiVo is seen as a discrete entity, this is why even if two things are recorded on the same channel two tuners are needed.

Technically it would be possible to use a single recording entity and index where recordings one and two start and stop within the recorded 'block'. This would be a lot more difficult to do and the way things are stored on the hard disk jumping into a recording is not exact and can result in strange artifacts on screen among other things.

Just my thoughts on the current limitations

J

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Anybody know how to change which TiVo records when you set up the record via remote record?

Does the new iPad app allow that?

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Really? I've always been able to go forward more than 9 days and have full listings. Thankfully normal service has now resumed. I can go forward up until Friday the 26th October 2012 with full listings for all channels, and partial information for Saturday the 27th October 2012. If you include today, that means I've got 14 full days of EPG information from the BBC. Witness it below :D

http://imageshack.us/a/img835/884/vl...1316h12m13.jpg

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The terrestrial channels do release 14 days of info, but they only do it once a week (on a Friday I think). So as the week goes on, the guide data will gradually diminish.

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Ah so I guess that makes dwarfofpoison and myself both right and wrong :D Bizarre stuff!