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I am a supporter of Virgin Media generally, and I like what I have heard about the series link +, the coming revised user interface and definitely the new Tivo.

However, I am shocked and disappointed to hear that some are experiencing a slowing down of their devices when speed is already a major problem with the Tivos.

If my Tivo gets even slower than now, I may think seriously about how I access content in the future. That just isn't good enough, I'm afraid, even with the additional features.

My viewing via Virgin Media has already declined by about 40% with the use of Netflix, Amazon and Now TV via my Roku or Smart TV. It would no longer require a big nudge to abandon Virgin TV altogether, which would be a shame.

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Can anyone say if the update has rolled out in Blackburn,Lancs.My Tivo is ridiculously slow.Thanks.

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90 seconds :shocked:

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...And what do the silent majority with the latest update think? Is it a good thing? Is the Tivo working better or slower than before?

Can we hear the experiences of others with the new update? I've heard mainly negative things so far - does anyone have anything positive to say? Please speak up, we really want to know!

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Has anyone come across this?

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This started happening for me about 2 months ago when we had all those major national faults. Since then I often notice the red lights aren't showing in standby. It only stats recording when I bring it out of standby. Of course if I am not there to notice, the recording doesn't happen. I think it says something about "power failure" which is nonsense. Very annoying.

I only had the update last week so it wasn't that, although the update deleted some of my series links which also resulted in yet more missing recordings.

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How do i know if i have had the update? TIVO is slower than usual going into my shows

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Go to the Home screen. If it says "TIVO" under the video window in the corner, that's the new software.

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Thanks for that spiderplant

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Up until a couple of days ago my tivo with the new software was working faster than usual, but now its dead slow. takes about 20 seconds to start a recording, if I press the TV button to return to full screen, it takes about 10 seconds to display the picture... it's awful.

I've been considering ditching virgin tivo for a while and I think in september when my contract expires I might do just that.

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They both say TiVo ;)

However if the logo looks like the ones on this page i.e the straighter TiVo font

https://www.tivo.com/about/resource-center/logos

then you've got the new software.

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Only one says "TIVO". My post is case-sensitive ;)

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Or TiVO even!

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I've been quite pleased with the new software for the most part. I've posted about one particularly strange "bug", that if you have a SeriesLink+ set for "all channels" then it seems to prefer recording on the 85x "Audio Description" variant over the "10x" terrestrial channel. Strange.

Other than that, it's a vast improvement speedwise with some very nice new functionality and I'm quite pleased with it. Will that do? :-)

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Nice to hear, japitts. Let's hope that is the majority experience when it is rolled out.