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Originally Posted by Harryn9000 (Post 35191509)

already had my call m8

Are you trying to make me feel jelous :p:

. . .and there's me so excited to be getting a V+ box to replace my VM TiVo this morning. Can't wait to get rid of the TiVo! Nasty, nasty, nasty!!

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Originally Posted by pythagoras (Post 35191490)

That only proves you have a TiVo, it dosnt prove you are a new customer. I would like to see your last 12 months sky bills, a copy of the last 12 months bank statements. The serial number of that TiVo box with your birth certificate and passport so that I know you havnt broken into someone elses house and taken those photographs.

A dna swap and blood sample would be handy too, just so that we know you are a human and not a troll.

Oh wait this is a forum about TV isnt, I just had a flash back to being in a court case:D.

Lets take people at face value until shown otherwise guys. This is only entertainment, not life and death.

Regards

John.

Looooooooool. This was all beacause a Virgin member of staff didn't believe me.

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Originally Posted by Bluemoon8 (Post 35191413)

I've put some up on this forum for you. Won't let me upload the same ones to you again.

Well done bluemoon!:welcome:

That should silence the sceptics. Are you happy with your TiVo? Have you discovered any bugs?

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Originally Posted by passingbat (Post 35191382)

Presumably the 2nd recording was higher priority?

No, I was testing the scenario where all recordings are manual one-offs NOT series links.

The priority we know so far is:

1. Manual one-off recordings.
2 Series links, in order specified in the series link mgt screen
3. Tivo suggestions.

We have already established what happens with series links, so I just repeated the test with all manual recordings, and the results show it gives priority to the later recording and clips the previous.

I had my TiVo installed on Thursday. I was so excited I think the engineer thought I was a bit odd, especially when I showed him my TiVo cuddly toy. It was only his third install and the first to an ex Series 1 user. The install took less than an hour. The engineer didn't understand why the EPG was taking so long to fill up, so from what I remembered of the old TiVo, I managed to find the Network screen which showed that it was still organising the data. On the old TiVo this could take hours but the Virgin TiVo did it in minutes.

My first impression was that I was overwhelmed. It is so very, very good. It is absolutely brilliant to have the old TiVo features back. Even simple things like the progress bar that shows where in the buffer you are. It was just like coming in from the freezing cold.

It's so easy to find all my favourite programmes to record, even ones that aren't on yet via wishlists. It's also amazing the information available about each programme, including cast lists, episode lists and other similar programmes. Everything is so accessable. The EPG is also pretty good and fast to navigate. Navigating menus can have pauses at times but nothing too major.

The best thing is that I no longer have to know when and what channel a programme is on. It is just so easy to find programmes or have them suggested to you. TiVo takes all the effort out of finding what you want to watch.

It's all the little features that also make this so great. The 30 second skip forward, the buffer that doesn't go away when you go to the guide or the menu. Not having to confirm that you want to go to live TV when you've been watching delayed TV. The list goes on.

So far I've had a couple of glitches which were fixed by reboots. First I lost the 30 second skip forward and then the tuners got stuck. Every time I picked a channel from the EPG it would go to the same single channel. I would have to press info and select the other tuner from the bottom of that screen.

I expect to come across other glitches but these are far, far outweighed by the benefits of the new features.

My expectations of the Virgin TiVo were high and they have been very much exceeded. The Virgin TiVo is just brilliant. It's got all the great features of the series 1 plus so much more. I am one happy bunny.

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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic (Post 35191334)

Not currently, no. There is a Weather App though.

My weather App seems to be operating 2 weeks in the past for some reason.

And I've got a feature request for you DF. From the Guide if you highlight a show and hit record it gives you an option to record. It would be similarly useful to be able to highlight a planned recording in the Guide, press record and see an option to cancel the recording. Without having to go into the other menus.

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Originally Posted by pythagoras (Post 35191490)

That only proves you have a TiVo, it dosnt prove you are a new customer. I would like to see your last 12 months sky bills, a copy of the last 12 months bank statements. The serial number of that TiVo box with your birth certificate and passport so that I know you havnt broken into someone elses house and taken those photographs.

A dna swap and blood sample would be handy too, just so that we know you are a human and not a troll.

Oh wait this is a forum about TV isnt, I just had a flash back to being in a court case:D.

Lets take people at face value until shown otherwise guys. This is only entertainment, not life and death.

Regards

John.

Are you sure?

Because, by the amount of sound and fury being generated in this and other forums, you would think that some people would give up their first-born to be at the head of the queue, and would lynch anyone else who has been given "priority", if it would jump them ahead of the rest.....;)

Just had my tivo installed,Took less than a hour.First impressions very slick,Couple of questions for the experts-
1.Only showing todays tv guide,I assume it will take a while to show longer
2.Tried catch up ,Doesnt seem to have the option to start part way thru the program like v+ or am i doing something wrong

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Originally Posted by howardmicks (Post 35191577)

1 - It will take a while as it will still be downloading all the data.
2 - I have noticed this so i am not sure of this one.

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Originally Posted by howardmicks (Post 35191577)

Re No.2, no it doesn't have that option yet, although it might appear in a future software update hopefully. You can, however, jump forward in 15 minute chunks, so shouldn't take too long to get to where you want to be.

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Originally Posted by devilincarnate (Post 35191586)

1 - It will take a while as it will still be downloading all the data.
2 - I have noticed this so i am not sure of this one.

Thanks matey,Starting to show a bit more of tv guide.Just had to do my first reboot,menu completly locked.But very impressed so far

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Originally Posted by howardmicks (Post 35191598)

Thanks matey,Starting to show a bit more of tv guide.Just had to do my first reboot,menu completly locked.But very impressed so far

Reboot you've only just had it installed LOL :D

That is a good feature on V+ being able to start at set position.

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Originally Posted by passingbat (Post 35191399)

DF, do you know if the online form will allow you to order more than one TIVO; I'm thinking of replacing both my V+ boxes, so may as well do it at the sme time to save on installation costs.

Thanks

I'm not sure on that one.

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Originally Posted by howardmicks (Post 35191598)

Thanks matey,Starting to show a bit more of tv guide.Just had to do my first reboot,menu completly locked.But very impressed so far

It will still be loading loads of stuff in the background for the first few hours...

Nice though isn't it? :)

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Originally Posted by fixerman (Post 35191566)

Well done bluemoon!:welcome:

That should silence the sceptics. Are you happy with your TiVo? Have you discovered any bugs?

Like I said I'm new to all this on Virgin media, very happy so far with it. Little slow on some things (BBC Iplayer) etc,but I guess this will speed up in time. So happy I've jumped ship.

One question I've got is, I've had 100mb broadband fitted, I do a speed test and it's only showing 55mb download speed. But the virgin tech says it's all fine and I'm showing 92-98mb on there system? Is speed test a good reading and has anyone with 100mb connection get better readings than me?