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Haha, I know, after I did I thought how sad it was to do that! I just thought maybe he was saying something important I was missing, but all fine.

Thanks, it's tomorrow, but it hasn't hit me yet, been waiting for a year or so for this and it's finally arriving in just 24 hours or so.

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Glad for you after such a long wait.

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Hope it meets your expectations VirginMediaPhil. Not long now until I get mine fitted.

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Can't play with my TIVo today
:bigcry:
Missus is watching some wedding thing ALL DAY !

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fixerman

Loving it won’t be disappointed if it takes a week :erm:
Already thinking of replacing the V+HD box for the baby TiVo;)
:clap:

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Sometimes i am not sorry i am divorced LOL.:erm:

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Im not sorry all the time lol:)

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Banish her to the additional box lol

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I got a call from VM a week before install date to see if I would like to keep my V+HD box for free I took up the offer :), even though I had already said that I wanted it anyway.:erm:

Got a call day before install to see if it was still ok, and the technician phoned 15mins before he turned up. Great bloke new his stuff.:clap:

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Yes the female sex seem to dictate the tv on these days and l am a soft touch.

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Tell here that Carl says that you never watch anything live with TiVo. Everything is recorded and then watched at leisure.

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Had TiVo installed yesterday and V+ moved to another room. All was fine yesterday, but today I have error code 3008 on the V+ and basic channels. Can anyone help?

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Hello All

How do I delete the recording hiccups?
thanks

barney111

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lmao :d remember record everything :d

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Not sure if you can - they are for information.

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That would have worked so well with the Royal Wedding....:D

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My parents are watching it live; but do keep pausing it now and again. If I were at home I would also be watching it "live" but also delayed.

As it happens I am also at my parents home but if I was at my own place I would also be recording it so that the Tivo wouldn't attempt to change the tuner at all when three things at once are recording later this afternoon.

So, to clarify, I have never ever said not to watch anything "live" or "at leisure" :( My point was record everything anyway.

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Ha Ha i lke it.:D:D

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Sorry, Carl, it was my attempt at humour.

Two days with TiVo - loving it!

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Tivo installed and recording now for 24 hours...

Install 8/10 - went well - Engineer wanted to leave quickly and showed me nothing...he'd only just had his training himself...waved the manual and left...no problem I've been on here for the last few weeks.

Picture 10/10 - no problem here - in SD or HD - SD quality appears to vary per channel but that was the same with my V+

Catch-up 2/10 - viewing catch-up from the EPG does not work...most selections only take me to catch-up search and others with Watch option give error message 6143/NAV84181

Suggestions ?/10 - Thumbed up / down for last 24 hours but 'Mr Tivo' has not made/recorded one suggestion yet...how long does this take ?

Features 10/10 - Wishlists are a big hit - even the wife wanted to set some up...phew...she's not seen the bill yet!

Reminders - 100/10 - glad they've gone - I was always setting them by mistake on my V+

Very happy - Thanks for all your posts over the last few weeks - kept me going while waiting for 'Tivo day'

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Do not worry the reminders are coming back at some point.

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No problem Robbo. Call it a "work in progress" then ;):p:

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You might be glad reminders are not there but l am not as they are very useful to set programmes you want to watch live in the days ahead.

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When I watch a program through the bbc iplayer app it cuts off before the very end, I then have to go back into it and skip to the end to watch the last bit. This is usually around the last minute of the program. Has anyone else experienced this?

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"What'chu talkin' about, Willis?

The world don't move to the beat of just one drum,What might be right for you, may not be right for some." :)

Still waiting for my first suggestion to be recorded...any idea how long this normally takes ?

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2-3 days, TiVo is still getting to know you ;)

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Please! Don't start that debate all over again.:mad:

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Thanks DF - just got to keep the kids from thumbing up the simpsons - that will be my TB gone in a few days ;)

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:clap::LOL:

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Had my VMTivo for about a week now getting to know its ways and its'
getting to know mine! Switched off my last S1Tivo after nearly 10 years on Wednesday, still a wrench Feels a bit like a death in the family. long live HD VM Tivo

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Firstly, if people don't bring it up, I won't. (Especially if they misrepresent my position.) Secondly, turns out the OP was trying to be funny. I told him to try harder ;):p::D

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If the Tivo is using all three tuners and at least one of them is half way through a suggestion. And you decided to record something, would it automatically cancel that suggestion and delete it?

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They've disconnected your V+ in error. Give Faults a call.

They get deleted automatically after two weeks.

Yes

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So finally got TiVo installed this morning only 24 hours late. Really good install nice bloke that explain alot and showed me through the setup. Every thing seems fine apart from the backwards epg at the minute the epg doesn't go backwards? Goes forwards about 10 days at the minute but nothing backwards. Engineer said it takes about 24 hours to download all the stuff so I assume that's why.

Apart from that it's a great bit of kit

Cheers

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Mine never went back beyond the day it was installed! Therefore it took a full week to populate the backward EPG.

Enjoy your TiVo. You will love it, I promise!:D

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So I note from eons ago that Picasa and FB are available now through the MyTiVo apps website. How do you get them to appear on your box. I have set up the necessary online. Do you need to be signed in as the main account holder?

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Although you can activate them on the website, I don't think the actual apps on the TiVo have been delivered yet. They are promised soon, I believe.

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Cheers Robbo :tu:

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Can we have a fourth tuner please. Since having TIVO all three seem to be working quite alot. :)

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The planned update for later this year/early next is two Tivos being able to access each other over a network, so that you can watch shows recorded on one tivo on the other.

Presumably, this would give you effectively 6 tuners?

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Yes I have the two times I've used iPlayer, to be honest I forget about iPlayer, with it being hidden away in apps.:confused:

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Am I the only one here disappointed with Tivo?

I've had Tivo almost 2 weeks, the installer said think of Tivo as something totally different to anything that was here before, so I have done just that, but I cant help feeling disappointed and confused with a few things.

at the moment I missing Interactive, used to read news and weather every day.

I seem to be pressing buttons all the time to do simple things, and before I know it Im 6 pages deep in the menus. I know theres shortcuts but its hard enough remembering which buttons do what in different menus already.

I've put a wishlist in for Alan Sugar/The Apprentice. Will it recored the new series by itself or do I have to set a SL? I can see The Apprentice on BBC One hd listings but theres nothing to say Tivo will record it.

Typing anything is so time consuming, but in other places in the menus I can use the number keys like you do on a mobile?

I thought when you searched all TV everything available would be listed, but music videos dont appear and theres no search facility in Music OD, as my post says above the ads are bad enough.

Thumbs up only works in certain menus/pages for me and how do I get info on programmes without going deeper into the guide/menus?

I just seem to be pressing buttons all the time:confused:

My drive has got to 47% today and Tivo seems to be getting slower the more thats on it. When I got tivo installed I said to the engineer how fast Tivo was, but he said it slows down the more thats recorded on it. It appears to be correct at the moment??

I dont understand how SL works on Tivo. Ice Road Truckers recorded tonight clashing with my other recordings even though I set IRT to record on the saturday morning repeat. How do I set a SL just for the saturday episode? The V+ had no problem with this.

I've turn off suggestions today as I was getting lots of shows I've seen already in the past, nothing new for me.

In View Network Diagnostics the Port config test says "Failed"

It takes longer to change channels and when I go into different menus I lose picture and audio for a second.

And most of the sd channels are shocking, for example, euronews was so blurred and soft when I flicked through the news channels for the wedding, wont even mention SkyLivingit.

Dont get me wrong, I realise its a brand new product with loads of potential and everyone here loves it, but at the moment for me its abit of a let down.

Or am I doing something wrong? or maybe I just looked forward to Tivo too much?

I still have my V+ and Im thinking of swapping it back as the main box, as I guess its too late to send Tivo back?

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:shocked::D

TiVo really is turning out to be the next gen PVR. Amazing if they can do it!!

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Yes nice feature , its been out ages stateside

http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/conten...logy/wholehome

http://www22.verizon.com/residential...sone/84882.htm

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I think so :)

Yes it's not available right now. Will be soon though.

That said, I use my Tivo to watch TV and nothing else. Though I know everyone's different.

Such as?

Should do. Though I'd use a SL as it's only on the one channel.

Again, not yet but soon.

Yep. Me too. They might fix that. Not sure.

The "Info" button.

After just two weeks? :eek: Though you don't mention if it's just you or a family.

Pass. Only at 12% myself.

That's because the V+ only dumbly recorded the episodes you set it to record. Tivo is more intelligent and will always record the next available airing. To record a specific showing you will have to set a Manual Recording; thus defeating the whole object of having a Tivo :)


This is correct.

Mine takes no longer than my SA V+ did and is due to it flushing and restarting the buffer.

Yeah. Menu changing does suck a little at the moment.

They look fine to me but then I don't have an HD TV and my eyesight's not brilliant anyway :)

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@jobbie8- I'm also finding SL and quite a few other features hard to get the hang of, and also can't quite understand why TiVo marks multiple identical episodes of shows to record. But I've only had TiVo for two days, and I'm hoping to find my way around eventually. My main gripe at the moment is Parental Controls. It's a real pain to have to enter a PIN to watch a recording. Might not sound like much but it really gets up my nose. As for the PQ, I also found it quite awful on some channels. Then I saw a post (can't remember who the poster was- sorry!) that said they had changed the Video Output to 720p. This made a considerable difference to the Picture Quality IMO. Just make sure you select the "Continue" button (to the top right of the screen) when you select the 720p option, and not just press "ok", or TiVo won't save the option.

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Carl wrote

That's because the V+ only dumbly recorded the episodes you set it to record. Tivo is more intelligent and will always record the next available airing. To record a specific showing you will have to set a Manual Recording; thus defeating the whole object of having a Tivo

Maybe I'm different here but if I set my box to record Hawaii Five O for example on Sunday night at 9pm, then I want it to continue this trend every week until the series finishes , not record it's first airing and potentially cause a clash.

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Thanks for the info on the PQ, the installer set mine to 1080i, will check it out. Glad Im not the only one whos finding Tivo hard to get the hang of.

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This is what I meant, Ice Road Truckers recorded tonight and is going to record tomorrow, and I always recorded Click on BBC News channel on a sunday morning at 11.30am on the V+. I have just checked my planned recordings, Tivo is going to record 8 versions of the same Click on BBC News over the coming weekend even though SL is set to "new". To me thats crazy, if Tivo is more intelligent why is it doing this?

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Just me, I recorded some Carry Ons and other films from ITV3, plus my 18 or so series links all HD
My wife is'nt impressed with Tivo, has'nt used the recording feature yet, and she has stopped watching Music OD because she cant be bothered to troll through the listings.
My son has the V+ in his bedroom so does'nt use Tivo as yet.

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Well if that's the first showing of a new ep airing it can find (and in this case it is) then that's the one it will record. It's intelligent like that and, as I said, that's the difference between Tivo and V+.

Also, it won't cause a clash, "potentially" or otherwise. Firstly, of course, it has up to three tuners it can use. Secondly, it will always find an alternate airing if required.

Well it shouldn't. You must have the SL set to "everything". This is wrong; and should almost never need to be used. At most it needs to be set to "new and repeats" but "new only" should work.

"Click" is the exception that proves the rule. Because the BBC neer provide episode-specific information, TMS can't set it up correctly to only record the one showing per week. This is a guide data issue and not a "Tivo" issue. Unfortunately, it has been this way since the original S1 units, over ten years ago. Either a manual recording or just remember to set one every week. :( Sorry!

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Thanks for the info, IRTruckers SL was set to New and Repeats. I just thought it would record the saturday episode when I set it up. Its all the extra button presses to change the options in SL that seem to make the V+ easier to use.
But to clear things up for me, if I cancelled IRT for tonight due to a clash, Im right to think Tivo would record the next availalbe episode?

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If this is a ten year old problem, and something the V+ can handle without any trouble, makes me alittle more disappointed about Tivo. :confused:

Do I stop watching Click, or delete 15 or so shows aweek from now on? :)

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Reading all these comments about how tivo handles series links is filling me with dissapointment.

On sky you click record and it asks you to select record one or series. What is the issue with how tivo does this?

Is there not a default option to just click a series so that it only records new or do you have to go through the options to do new only?

Dont want to be messing around deleting 15 or so shows.

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I've also had problems with setting series links on my TiVo. Two links that I set to record new only have failed to identify all showings and I have had to set the missing shows manually. Just yesterday I reviewed my recordings of another series link, also set to record new only, to find that it had recorded duplicates. I thought TiVo was smart enough to realise that it has already recorded something. Seems not. The second is preferable to the first but this shouldn't happen. I hope this bug gets attention soon.

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I find the series link thing baffling.
I set Match of the day, using 'new', and the errors page showed problems. What's this 28 days thing?

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Always use "New and Repeats" for series links. Tivo does not pick up all programmes if new only especially if you have just had Tivo installed and a series is mid way through (as was in my case).

Howeveer, if Tivo has repeats scheduled in its recording list, then if those repeats are something you have recorded and due to be recorded in the next 28 days, it will not actually go ahead with the repeat recording. I guess the purpose of this 28 day check is to avoid the same episode being recording again in the following 4 week period so only other episodes of a series are recorded if repeated.

So what I have found out is that while your full scheduled recording list may show many recordings of the same programme, if you then go to the "recording hiccups" list, you will find Tivo says it will not record a programme because it is already scheduled as another recording in the 28 day period!

The net effect is that what is actually recorded is what you want namely just the programmes in the series. When the "new only" option is finally sorted (an issue with programme identification on the EPG feed I believe?), this will no longer be relevant , but until then the "new and repeat" option is the workaround.

This happens with me recording Air Crash Investigations which has loads of repeats in a 2 week period so my planned recordings show around 10 scheduled recordings while only 2 recordings (1 programme per week) occur in reality.

Must say the Tivo could so with some usability enhancements in places and maybe this is another case of providing too much information of button options. My wife hates the new Tivo UI as it feels like endless menus to do what was simple on V+.

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Hi I thought I would join the debate and add my perspective.

It seems some people are unsettled by the fact that Tivo does things differently to V+ - but that is the whole point! Tivo can use the data available to give much more flexibility about series passes and better ensure all new episodes are captured. V+ would just dumbly record the same 'slots' every week. However it wouldn't, for example, recognise when a new series of that programme had started.

This is of course dependent on the data available being correct. I have the same issue with 'Click' as the BBC dont label the episodes correctly. However it is worth comparing the end result under V+ and Tivo! Major news events would often mean my V+ recording missed the show due to schedule changes. Tivo now provides me with multiple showings to choose from in the event of this happening and once I have viewed the programme I can delete all superfluous recordings with one 'click' by deleting the 'Click' folder.

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There was nothing in 'recording hiccups' (the first place I look in these cases). TiVo simply recorded the Book Show on Sky Arts 1 HD on Thursday and the repeat, same channel, different time, on Friday. I'll try your workaround of new and repeats. Thanks for that. I can't really see how this will pick up missed programmes from a series link which defeats the whole purpose of the series link option. I, too, think the most likely explanation is shoddy programming data and the EPG.

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'Hiccups' is just showing that the repeat episode will not be recorded and why - ie you told it you only want the first showing!

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Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. There was no mention of any kind of hiccup for that show mentioned. TiVo simply recorded the repeat without registering that there was a problem. It just didn't 'see' that the programme was a repeat.

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Cheers, Andy1, I get it.

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Hi heavyside - my previous reply was to WDLaserjetGlover.

I can only think the Book Show is another issue of the programme not being labelled correctly so Tivo cant recognise it as a repeat.

I suspect this will happen in a small number of cases. i have personally only found one instance ie 'Click'.

All I would say is with 1TB of recording space to go at its probably not worth worrying too much about this when it does only happen in a small number of cases. It is very easy to delete all unwanted episodes by highlighting the entire folder and pressing 'clear'

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No problem mate - It is a funny quirk that it tells you why it is not recording the repeat on the hiccups screen in these circumstances. Its like it has it has a guilty conscience!

V+ used to take it on itself to delete my MOTD2 sheduled recording every week just before it aired - despite no clashes. I had to remember to manually set it up again on Sunday evening if I wasnt watching live.

It's so good to have a Tivo box under the TV once again!

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But people are paying a monthly charge for this premium service , so surely its not to much to expect accurate EPG data.

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That was my worry from posts on this forum before I got my TiVo. Unfortunately this is still my main niggle (well that & the SD Menus), a service like TiVo is only as good as the EPG data it provides!

I'm hoping VM are working closely with the TiVo team to iron out these EPG inconsistances.

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And as a result of the premium service I am now no longer missing programmes that I was with V+ and I can rest assured that new series of the programmes I like will be recorded automatically ..and I can leave wishlists running to find all sorts of programmes I am interested in and episodes I have previously missed.

Not to mention..

Setting up recordings remotely
Recording 3 things at once
Etc etc etc

Why on earth would I worry about a very small number of duplicate recordings?

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Sorry, didn't mean to butt in. It's just that our two problems seemed so similar and, much as I love my TiVo, I'm getting frustrated. The 'intelligent' series links and the recommendations were two features I was so looking forward to and both seem to be flawed at present.

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The V+ does not "handle" it though. The V+ only ever records the episode you specifically set it up to record. It's basically as dumb as a digital VCR. Hence it being a DVR; Digital Video Recorder.

Tivo is a PVR; Personal Video Recorder.

Neither. Do as I suggested and either specifically set one recording yourself manually or set up a repeating manual recording. In fact, another thought just occured. Set up a SL for Sunday AM showing on BBC1. There's only one a week of that version :)

You don't need to. "Click" is unique and, if you record the Sunday AM version on BBC1, a standard SL will do the job.

Also, there should be no problem using "new only" on UK programming. It's just some of the US imports that have the US OAD and not the UK one; therefore requiring use of "new and repeats".

And, mostly, it is. Nothing is ever perfect. But, hopefully, it will improve over time.

Exactly :D

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Well l am paying 8.00 more since l had the tivo installed and yet no explanation for this as it stands.

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Definitely not the only one, very disappointed here too. Some of the problems I am having are (in no particular order :));

• The noise and vibration of the unit, makes sleeping in the room above almost impossible! I know many on here have said they are almost silent, but certainly not what my installer said about the others he had installed and certainly not the case with me!
• The speed of the box. Was only a little slower than V+ when I first got it, but now it's 35% full, there is a delay of up to 10 seconds to get through some of the menus. Luckily I'm running out of slots I can record things in anyway (see below).
• Remote control. Unit is at a very slight angle to armchair, certainly less than 45 degrees, more like 15 and around 6 foot away and remote control will not work (certainly no chance of it working in any other seat in the room). In order to guarentee the control working, I need to stand up, take one step to the right and one step forward, then bend down. I have tried my Harmony control and also the old V+ one and they are all the same.
• Wishlists. I have set up a few, some of which have now tried to record as new series are starting. One example is Waterloo Road starting next Wednesday. It found the programme but tried to record it from BBC1, BBC1 HD, BBC1 England, BBC1 Wales etc, etc. Got confused and decided not to record any. It also cancelled the one other programme I had set to record at the same time. Cancelling the series link and Wishlist does not fix anything. This has happened with a few other Wishlists and now I have four slots during each week where I cannot record anything.

I do have a couple of friends and a brother who also have TIVO's, the two friends also have problems, although not as many as me. My brother however, is happy as anything with his.

A few others on this forum have some of the problems too, I can only guess that the units were rushed out and some of them may not have been 'quality assured' I will request a new box when I get a chance to get a day off work, but until then, the V+ will be coming out of my daughters bedroom and back downstairs.

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That definately sounds like a 'Friday afternoon' box. They need to get that replaced for you.

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FYI, if you're expecting TiVo to record MOTD2 tomorrow then it wont as it is on BBC1 this week ;)

Unfortunately TiVo doesn't handle channel changes very well (much like the V+)

On another note, does anyone think it's worth e-mailing TMS with EPG issues?

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The Wishlist problem is one both my friends have too. I wonder if there is a TIVO error in there somewhere. Has anyone else experienced it? I didn't actually know until I was looking through my planned recordings and noticed it was not there. Went in to hiccups and found about 10 versions of it. Then tried to cancel links and record again and was unable to add anything. Now I cannot set anything to record on a Wednesday between 7.30 and 8.30, it just goes straight to hiccups.

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No problem at all mate. Iin an ideal world everything should work perfectly from day 1 but I guess I just don't get why the odd duplicate recording would cause frustration - its much better than missing the show completely.

Tivo is about proactively gathering lots of content together in one place based around what you like and then lettling you choose what to watch when you want to watch it and to delete what you don't. Its like having your own dedicated tv channel with all programmes available when you want them. A duplicate recording is just like having a repeat in the schedule - why worry about it?

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Well my engineer has been here since 9am so far he's managed to drop the box off my tv stand, and he's still at the blue screens and is trying to get hits sent to the box every 5 mins. He really doesn't have a clue... It's his first install of TiVo as well!

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The repeats don't bother me. It's just that they shouldn't happen if TiVo was working as it should. Of much more concern are the programmes missing from series links. I do buy in to the whole TiVo idea. It's just that I was expecting something a little smarter than it actually is. After all, the V+ in the bedroom handles its version of series links flawlessly. I hope that by giving this kind of feedback here it will speed development to getting TiVo where it should be.

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I got caught by the snooker. I think it was the female referree at the time. Very dodgy:D

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How long did everyone elses install take this is rediculous! 2 hours and still no where near getting installed... hes putting another box in now considering he dropped the first one.

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l hope things improve for you this morning as it does not seem like a very good start.

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No its not been very good and he doesnt even know how to use it so its gonna be blind leading the blind!

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No Tip for him then...:)

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l wish l could help you on this but once its hopefully installed it should not be too long for you to get used to it.
One word to describe the tivo is its superb.

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6 hours and 3 engineers

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Wow, that DirectTV link is great.

Could this be how TiVo would work on the normal V-HD box?? :shocked::angel:

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That is ridiculous!:shocked:

My install took exactly 35 minutes, including giving me a basic rundown on the box and he was off!:(

Have they checked to quality of the signal coming into your house?:confused:

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My install was quick,Arrived at 08.15 and was gone by 8.50 and that included a brew for the 2 of em and a quick demo,Dont let him leave without trying everything.Otherwise i suspect you will be calling them out again

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Possible I think , but someone more tech may no more than me.

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as I said in my earlier post last night:

"My drive has got to 47% today and Tivo seems to be getting slower the more thats on it. When I got tivo installed I said to the engineer how fast Tivo was, but he said it slows down the more thats recorded on it. It appears to be correct at the moment??"

If this is the case whats the point of having huge storage when it slows the box down.

Also re my Ice Road Truckers SL issuse (see post 3039) I changed to to "new" last night after it recorded last nights show. And guess what? its still recoreded this mornings showing.

And whilst Tivo was recording IRT again this morning, it was recording Click and Mickey Mouse on Playhouse Disney (a one off recording for my grandson) I was watching a recording of Family Guy and viewing these forums. Then as Click stopped recording, Family Guy stopped mid way and Tivo changed to BBC News channel without anyone touching the remote. I had to go back into My Shows to finish watching Family Guy.

Grrr...:mad:

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Yeah but, no but! There is no mention of TiVo in any of that!:confused:

Seeing as we are currently seeing a lot of problems coming to the surface maybe we should try to resolve these issues before we get carried away on a fit of enthusiasm and before all the lovers of all things VM go off on one read the various forums. A lot of folks are not best pleased that their experience does not live up to that promised.

I seem to be quite lucky in that my gripes are quite small and will hopefully be addressed in time but there seems to be quite a significant number of quite unhappy folk out there. I wonder if this has anything to do with VM not bringing this box to mass market yet?

While I'm on a rant, and without being gender specific, it seems that the non techie person in the households are struggling to come to terms with the complexity of the TiVo. How many posts have we seen comments that the significant other just wants the V+ back?

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Yes l have a opinion but yesterday l was accused of ranting and whinging about things by the pro-virgin brigade.

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Couldn't agree more fixerman I was just replying to passingbats post about networked TIVOs and showing it's been out stateside. I 100% agree get the faults ironed out , there does seem a few at the moment.

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Ignore them , you are entitled to your say , you pay them your hard earned money.

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Yes l will continue to have a opinion and that opinion is based upon the facts of what virgin do or do not do and nothing else.

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Whilst I see your point, surely it's only a matter of time before VM & TiVo get these little niggles ironed out?

VM are definately promoting TiVo on their site now, it's pretty much taking centre stage when you click on the 'TV, BB & Phone' tab from virginmedia.com

As for people wanting the V+ box back, I'm sure this was the case when people originally moved to sky+ from VCRs. It just takes time to adjust and see the benefits, once that happens I can't see many people wanting to stay with the 'basic' V+. :)

Also with talk of the V-HD box getting the TiVo software on board along with the leaks about sharing content between all TiVo boxes in your house, I don't see why this is out of the realms of possibility! :D

http://youtu.be/yEi9Z5H0h9w

I'd love that sort of functionality & wouldn't think twice about getting a TiVo box to replace the bedroom V+ if it meant a combined storage of either 1.5tb or even 2tb!! :shocked:

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Beware of the muppetman:devsmoke: He speaks from the dark side:p:

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Now hang on a minute , you know I deal in facts and don't trash VM unless the genuinely deserve it. I am also still a VMTV customer .

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I've had ours a few days now and it is so much faster than the SA V+ (or TV-Drive). Love the interface, though there are some odd quirks about it that I'm having to get used to (the keyboard dosent wrap the cursor, so you go left and get dumped back a menu. It does remember what you have typed though which was a surprise).

Not a fan of the remote, though. It feels nice and built well, but the button placement seems odd. Numbers at the very bottom and the OK button at the top? Same with the back/clear buttons being away from the navigation buttons. It probably dosent help that the interface quirks also mean that sometimes one button does nothing in one screen but works in the next. I'll get used to it, but I think my poor thumb is going to have to grow another few cm's :p

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Yes emperor.

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2011/04/1.jpgAw,diddums....

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2011/04/2.jpg

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LOL remember what happened to Darth , don't set my outfit on fire :D

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Ah the master makes his voice heard again.

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Muppetman, you just gotta adopt that picture as your avatar.:LOL:

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Just to let you know that was 2 weeks ago and maybe a bit misleading, and I don't want to bore you with all the details, so to cut the story short it was a faulty smart card, and it took a while for the engineer and another engineer (for a second opinion) to realize that was the problem, and I had to wait on a replacement to arrive, but yes it was 6 hours from start to finish.
I am one of the lucky ones though it would appear because I have an excellent signal and my SD & HD picture are first class.

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I'll probably get abuse for saying this as I know I don't have TIVO however who knows in the future , I'm just adding support to what fixerman has said make sure everybody reports bugs and broken features on here , VM community forum or via 150 no matter how trivial , this way they get ironed out quicker.

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Good point - totally agree with your suggestion. :tu:

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Well Virgin have come and the guy has expained that we weren't on the list to move the box into the second room, only for TiVo, and that it's too big a job to do today to fit into his schedule, but that he'll do it on another day.

Which I don't mind about to be honest, didn't ask for the second box in the first place, just want the TiVo!

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The transfer must be arranged in advance!:erm: