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Thanks for that Carl , an honest review :D

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as balanced as yours....;)

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I see. But when you set a whishlist up for an actor, say, you don't know what channel the show will be on for future shows. If you select HD as a category, what happens if the show turns up on an SD channel only? I guess it won't record it?

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Could be right there,But i have just wishlisted the shows so far that i know are in HD and so far they are working and recording HD
Might be worth setting something that will only be available in the future in sd and see what it does

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I wasn't being sarcastic Hugh , Carl stated it hardly ever rebooted not it never , the epg data was flakey and also gave the good points , all in all very balanced.

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It's handy that you can view a list of planned recordings just of your wishlist searches. One way is to check this every so often and cancel any SD shows that have an HD version, and add the HD version.

It would be nice to have Tivo do this automatically and I hope in the future it can.

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The Wishlist I created for Sci-Fi movies seems to be picking HD content when possible anyway, from channels like Syfy HD, Film 4 HD, E4 HD etc.

I certainly didn't insist on it recording HD only, and given the search and the sheer range of channels to search from, that was probably the right decision - not that I think I could do Sci-Fi movies + HD for the category anyway? :confused:

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Agree

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Just goggled up a useful tip regarding giving priority to HD versions of programmes in Wishlists: You can create duplicate Wishlists based on a programme title, give one Wishlist a category of HD, and the other Wishlist no category.

Then give the HD Wishlist priority over the other, HD-less one. When TiVo finds a HD version of the programme, it will record it, and the SD version will be ignored due to the lower priority and the fact that the episode is a duplicate of the HD version.

If there is no HD version, then the HD-less Wishlist will record the SD version.

http://forums.tivo.com/pe/action/for...ie=x#e10430535

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Wanted to watch the snooker on the red button but all TiVo does is bring up the iPlayer.

Is there no BBC red button functionality then? Anyone know when it'll be available?

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Nice1,Is it me or is tivo just getting better and better:)

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I get the feeling we're all just scratching the surface! :D:D

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Not at the moment

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Totally Agree;)

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There is a lot more to it and i think that we are just cracking the ice:) and not fallen through yet:D:D:D

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True I really want to see the full potential of this lovely box;)

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You expected anything less? ;)

I know that some people do seem to be experiencing more re-boots than others. I had to re-boot mine between Dr Who and DWC as it stpped responding to the remote, which was really annoying. Likewise I don't experience too many EPG issues. Can't wait until all the menu screens are in HD either!

It's not perfect by any definition, but the problems are relatively minor and it is certainly the best mass-market DVR currently available.

Okay. Gratuitious plug time. Read my full review here: http://www.virginmediainfo.co.uk/tivo.shtml

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If I were to go to a lap dancing bar these days it would be for a drink!:D

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Well l have now had Tivo since Wednesday and l have to admit it is a very impressive piece of kit which is light years ahead of other set top boxes that l have had, everything moves much quicker than my other boxes which are now relegated to the conference league.
l believe this box has tremendous potential and now it is up to Virgin to realise this potential.

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In development, expect June I think.

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This is the one area that the tivo is weak in at the moment is the interactive features and hopefully they will add these features quickly.

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I'm really going to have to find some time alone with my TiVo to have a play around with the wishlists. A full house with the kids being on holiday has not given me and my new baby enough quality time alone together. Kids back at school Tuesday, off work on Wednesday, not long to wait!

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Hey Fixerman never say die. Your as old as the girl you feel :D

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Is this a new series or repeats?

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I'm loving Tivo already. Like the way it puts series into folders with the option to play all. Have tons of recordings and only 10% of drive used. My V+ would have been almost full by now.

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New series matey :)

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My series link on Megastructures gave me seven copies of the same episode recorded last week. I guess this is another of those poor guide programming results. (Oh well, doesn't take long to delete the extras and it made sure I didn't miss it!)

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Anyone know whether there will be a big marketing push for TIVO so far I've not seen a single leaflet , TV advert etc ?

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No nothing so far.

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Very good and well presented review Carl; definitely worth the maximum tivo thumbs up!

Sorry, I do have to disagree on this bit on Youtube though:

I think it's a great feature. Why come away from the TV to switch the PC on to get information that is available from one click on the TV you are already watching?

Now, if they also added a link to Internet Movie Database, that would be great, though a lot of that information is there already, just not as complete.

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shock horror :D I agree with Carl , I personally see YT apps useless I'd rather use the full version on my computer , pretty much the same opinion with Twitter and Facebook.

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Yes a excellent review but again l have to disagree with your view about Youtube as l am loving that.

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I like the way you can watch a programme and then hit a button and get Youtube info on it. Great.

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To be fair though --- you haven't used it on tivo. The reviews I read about it didn't explain how well implemented and convenient it is.

If you are a person that does use Youtube for such things, I suspect that, when you come back over from the 'Dark Side' :D and get tivo, you will find yourself using it!

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I found the Tivo YT app dosent find the same results as the web page?

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I have it on a Blu Ray player , but it doesn't really compare to the PC version.

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So do I and you're right in that respect, but it's the implementation on Tivo that makes it so good. It's a 'one click' to get youtube videos on a specific show, actor, director etc. that you're looking at in the Tivo menus.

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some of the content that is available on the web version isn't available on 'connected devices' such as Tivo or TVs and blueray players. I believe the content author can decide on where it's viewable.

But the Tivo serch results give you a good selection and good for a quick look before or after you watch the show you're browsing, or in deciding wheather it's worth a watch.

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40" Samsung LCD - was getting a brilliant picture with the Samsung V+ :(

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Interesting, thanks. Didnt know that

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My TiVo is fairly often giving me difficulty with "HDMI connection not permitted", and I'm not sure whether there is a reliable method of getting round this, or whether I should even phone in as a fault.

I seem to remember someone posting that it could be to do with having HDMI and scart both connected? My TiVo is connected to my 18 month old Sony KDL40s5500 LCD by HDMI, and to my 7? year old Panasonic DMR-ES20 DVDR by scart.

Any suggestions?

Derek

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it's a process of elimination.

I'd try just connecting the tivo with HDMI and no scart connection to see if it fixes it.

Try a different HDMI input on the TV

If not, try a different HDMI lead.

If that doesn't fix it and your TV worked with V+ via HDMI, I'd ring VM; it may be a faulty HDMI out on Tivo?

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Not till lat in the year.

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Lets hope so as that and reminders are two things that are missing at the moment.

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any idea why my Tivo defaults to recording wishlist searches on Audio Description channels?

I have to manually trawl through a long list of Frasier's to change this.

Why should wishlists default to high channel numbers? surely it would make more sense to start searching from 101?

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TiVo has never had those features though, so really they aren't missing ;)

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It shouldn't matter if it records those channels though as the audio description has to be selected. Otherwise you will just get standard audio.

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But if Virgin listen to customers feedback which has already been stated on this forum that these two things need to added at some point in the future.

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ah didnt know that. Will leave it as is then! Cheers

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Now that is exactly what I need.

Forums are great, but sometimes finding the information is difficult. Taking the time to summarise the information is appreciated.

Thank you :)

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ah didnt know that. Will leave it as is then! Cheers

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It's gone very quiet on here....................
Is there anybody out there.....................
Hello, Hello..........................................

Ah must have installed all the Tivo's and everyone's playing
:D:D

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They don't NEED added, however VM and TiVo are working to add them.

My view is TiVo has been around for years and works brilliantly. V+ works great the way it does. So if you miss V+ features then go back to it. I love TiVo and the way it works. I don't miss the V+ at all, TiVo is a totally different product all together.

What's the point in getting a great service added to VM only for people to say they wish it was more like the old product?:rolleyes:

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I haven't got my TiVo yet so am commenting as someone who has never tried it but surely the point is that people want the best of both? TiVo might be fantastic but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be better with features that are already in V+
people always miss the bits that they had but have lost regardless of how much better the new is.

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Hi everyone,
Im sorry if what Im gonna ask has come up before, but as I cant actually afford the 1T Tivo, does anyone know when the 500Gb's coming out? It would be cheaper for me being a XL customer and I understand the only difference is in the HD capacity.
Thanks in advance.

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Sometime in May. I think i read the 28th but not 100% on that .

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Thank you for your opinion Stephen whilst agreeing with your tivo comments there were certains bits that were good on the v plus and customers liked these and thats why they want them added in some future update to tivo, a little bit of old and a little bit of new never did any harm but improve things.

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They are all keeping their powder dry before their next gripes.

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Perhaps people like some of the features of the old product and wish to see them incorporated in the new one along with any new features.;)

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l will have to have one of them as well.

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l totally agree with you again.

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Hi, the date that has been given for the launch of the 500gb box is the 16th May.

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Agree with Denphone on this.

Why does there have to be a V+ or Tivo choice for certain functionality?

Tivo/VM have added features to the US version specific for VM, so why couldn't they have added features from V+ that were superior to those onTivo, or missing from Tivo?

If Tivo hadn't been modified it in any way from the US version, then your 'choice' argument holds up; tivo or V+. But they did. And to say Tivo does everything better than V+ is looking at tivo with blinkered vision IMHO.

The best of Tivo US combined with the best of V+ was the way to go IMHO.

From my perspective, the one feture that V+ trounced Tivo on, is padding; Tivo really needs to adopt the V+ method.

Also picture quality, but that is probably a Cisco box issue.

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l am glad we agree on this as we have not aways agreed on everything before but this is why l enjoy this forum as everybody can have their views and opinions on things.

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Yep agree totally too. Cant see the need for V+ features to be removed from the Tivo. It dosent make it a worse product to carry the V+ advantages.
As repeated many time already, if their on Tivo use them or dont. If their not on their you dont have an option.....

People wish its was more like the old product because it carried very good features. The Tivo carries MANY advantages and features the V+ dosent, so to say if you miss V+ features then go back to it isnt really an option.

Its great to see a company acknowledging which it obviously now sees as a mistake.
Once they reinstate 'reminders' it wont change anyones Tivo for the worse but will enchance others.......Everyones happy :D

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Could not agree more.

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So VM bring out a great new product only for some customers to wish it was more like the old one lol.

Progress eh!

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You are missing the point totally on this

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Its not more like the old one, a brand new product which carries the advantages of the old, like any normal company does! :rolleyes:

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Can we have a tape drive added for TIVo 2

I miss playing my reel to reel tapes
:D:D:D

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Who has said more like?

You're not reading the posts correctly.

People are questioning why a small number features that V+ had or did better than Tivo, weren't added to the Tivo, when Tivo was being modified from the US version anyway?

Everyone has acknowledged that Tivo has far more functionality than V+ and is a far better better product in comparison to V+.

I'm confused by your apparant lack of objectivity in this issue.

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Agree fully and a very constructive post , TIVO is more advanced than the V+ fact , however it's wrong to say an older box cant have features that were better or more user friendly.

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Thats my view as well.

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There's no doubt that TiVo has a whole load of extra features over V+ HD. But there's also no doubt that there's a few features which were in V+ HD which a) people used and b) aren't in TiVo.

True progress is adding to the existing feature set. Not taking them away. The reminders thread (and the about-turn VM/TiVo have done on that) is indication of existing functionality which customers used on V+ HD, and still want to use on TiVo.

Ditto numerous picture quality threads on this and other forums. It should be:

TiVo SD Picture Quality >= V HD+

and not:

TiVo SD Picture Quality <= V HD+

How is that progress regarding picture quality for SD, eh!?

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l find myself agreeing with many forum members on this.

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Wrong. What if you want to watch something, and the hdd is full? Yes, 1TB is a lot of storage, but record a few films and a couple of series in HD and that 1TB will soon vanish.

Especially when you consider Tivo doesn't support archiving to another medium in the background, which means you need to find several hours when the box isn't being used to archive that stuff.

So, you are suggesting using an alternate device (and considerably more button presses) to replace functionality people apparently found useful and that VM could implement in a few lines of code? And that's not a step backwards in usability?

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Not really. You don't remove features to improve something (unless they really don't work, but clearly reminders did), you attempt to add to those features.

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100% spot on Stuart a certain UK pay TV uses a green button remind me service frequently as do many other PVR services around the world , so it's hardly a dying function.

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Someone over at TCF even suggested using reminders on my mobile phone as an alternative to no-reminders on TiVo.

Seriously.

Progress, eh!

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I'm sure some people really want reminders and maybe they will be added in future, but surely the point of a PVR is that you just record it and watch it when you want?
Justly opinion, I'm sure others will disagree but I think the TiVo will do me fine :)

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its not often l agree with you but on this we totally agree.

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I fully agree with you on that one, but some people like reminder functionality.

But there's a principle going on here. There are some things V+ did better than Tivo and we're being told by Stephen we should ignore them and not complain about the lack of them; how dare we challenge, 'The mighty Tivo'?

But as Tivo was modified from the US version, there was the opportunity to add some V+ functionality. For some the missing/better functionality is reminders. for me it's padding.

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It is, but for various reasons, that's not always practical.

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I think I used the reminder function once on my old V+ box. Anything I want to watch to the degree I would set a reminder would be set up to record anyhow.

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You've nailed it.

• Reminders? Don't be silly, you don't and never have needed them! I've never used them so you don't have to either, OK? Besides, its TiVo!
• Picture quality? Ptfff. Its TiVo, silly!
• Padding? Seriously? C'mon! Its TiVo!
• Jesus, don't tell me you have to know if you've watched a recording? :rolleyes: Gawd, are you stupid or something....you don't deserve TiVo if you need that.

;)

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Knowing whether you've watched something or not is needed , I've not got TIVO but on the two PVR's ive used V+ and Sky+HD this is available.

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hello All, just a quick question please, had tivo installed on Thursday & i have noticed the last day or 2 that the tivo remote dosnt always make the bloop bloop sound when im useing it, is anyone else haveing this issue, also just had my box freeze for first time 5 minutes ago, anyone else had this yet since new install.

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It won't make the sounds if you're watching an HD channel as they use Dolby Digital for the audio. If you go into the audio settings and change it to "Dolby Digital to PCM" it will make the sounds and will also make the HD channels have the same audio volume as the SD channels.

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One question is if l have another tivo do l have to pay another 3 pounds.

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No, Charge is per account, not per box.

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Thats great news now lets see how much savings l got left to purchase another box.

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Other than reminders, I can't think of one other thing that the V+ did better than Tivo :confused:
Subjective. Some say it's better; some say it's not.
Global padding may be nice but its not absolutely required.
Exactly :D

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Everybody is entitled to their own opinion but l think you will find most people on this forum disagree with you on this one.

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Which is, of course, absolutely fine. They'll just have to put up with being wrong :p:

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This forum would not be the same without you.

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I will tell you it would be boring without anyone:erm:

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Thanks a lot for that Lew.:)

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For me, the only real thing is the way V+ handled padding (PQ is probably a Cisco box issue).

V+ dropped padding when two shows on different channels recorded back to back on the same tuner.

Tivo doesn't do that. it records the end padding on the highest priority show and you miss the first part of the lower priority show following.

I used to set a standard 5 minutes before and after on V+ which covered pretty much all over runs. I could do this because V+ would drop padding for the scenario described above.

With Tivo, I would loose 5 minutes of the second show. Given this situation, I can see why Tivo doesn't have a global setting for padding, as you really need to set pading depending on what other shows are being recorded around the same time and which tuners will be available.

If Tivo handled padding like the V+, then a global padding option, like that on the V+ could be applied with no resulting problems.

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Would be pretty dull if everyone said "yeah yeah you're right" ;)

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Just had my 1st reboot! :erm:

I was adding 1080i to the list of supported video formats, suddenly I was watching 0i because the box rebooted.

But, it works well - when I switch to a HD channel, the TV switches to 1080i, and when I switch to a SD channel, the TV switches to 720p.

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You do know that was sarcasm, right? :)
I take your point, but with three tuners, and multiple showings of most programmes these days, that is highly unlikely to ever actually happen :)

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What is the native resolution of your TV?

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As a uneducated forum member l am not sure what you mean by sarcasm.

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Not fair. You didn't add a smiley. Now I don't know if you're serious or not :p:

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If Tivo handled padding the way V+ did, it would never happen.

'Never' works better for me than 'unlikely' :)

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l never add a smiley but did you know that some forum members and those closest to me call me Victor after a famous tv character.

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Try this?

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