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New customers will pay exactly the same as existing customers for the 500GB box. The reduction for existing customers is for the 1GB box.

The TiVo fee is charged once per account, however you would pay the standard additional box rental of £6.50 if that's what it is

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The £3 charge is per account, not per box.

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Unless you're one of those people who've been given multiroom free when having the first Tivo installed?

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From what i have read it is £3 per account and not £3 per box. They will need to to pay the £49.95 + £40 install as well? I stand to be corrected?

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Thats good news.

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Very. Good on VM for doing it that way, and not doing the Sky HD charging method.

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Even better when you consider you end up with a 10Mbit connection per TiVo box as well

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Agreed! I was sure it would be £3 per box.

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Yes l think its disgusting that Sky are allowed to charge 7.00 for each box that you have Sky premium channels on.

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Agree that HD charge per box is a complete rip off , I think with Sky as well if you have a Sky+HD box as your multi room box you have to pay 10.00 and 10.25 HD charge , thank god I only have one box LOL :D

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Yes most companies are greedy but Sky well they take the biscuit especially with that crook called Rupert Murdoch.

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All companies are run by crooks and they only want the best for themselves and their shareholders :erm:

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Perhaps its time to round them all up and put them on trial.

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Come on then we will start a posse :D:D:D:D:D

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Yes and l shall be Jesse James and you can be Wyatt Earp.

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No I will be wire twerp:D:D:D:D:D

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You are now mocking yourself.

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This is one thing that I always do, And it is fun:D:D:D:D:D Just ask the others on here?

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Hardly relevant, though, as the connection is only for the Tivo itself :)

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l agree with you as too many people in life take everything too seriously.

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How is it not relevant?

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See told you so lol... for some reason the key is the 2 connects and disconnects and it kicks it into shape :)

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Of course it's relevant! It means that your broadband is unaffected by the tv service and the tv service has it's own broadband which is not depending on the broadband! Brilliant!:cool:

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I think this 10mbit thing is a bit of a marketing ploy as the V+ downloads its on demand stuff through its own connection which doesnt interfere with your BB connection.

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But TiVo has to download a whole lot more. Not to mention You Tube.

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What is been serious, As I do not know the meaning of the word (not much anyway):D:D:D:D

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Especially when more Apps come out :)

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Isn't the mini guide supposed to show channel logos? Mine shows nothing.

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Yes the mini-guide and the Now&Next banner too

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Because if you didn't have Tivo you wouldn't have the extra broadband connection. It's only used by the Tivo not the customer.

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You probably need to reboot. There's a bug where it doesn't show the logos on newly-installed boxes.

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How fast was the dedicated connection on the V+ box?

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The customer uses TiVo, and TiVo uses the broadband connection

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I have a problem with subtitles, when the titles change position on screen it is leaving a black line where the titles were, so i have 2 permanent black lines running through the picture.
I cannot reboot at the moment because it is recording.

Anyone else getting this :(

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I don't know but it had it's own connection, it must have done to get the on demand content.

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I'm getting a bit bored with mine now.
It's giving me all I expected and performing well.
The niggles don't really bother me, I am happy with the HD and SD pictures, and it has recorded all the series links as requested.
I've got no new things to try now, just sit back and watch TV.

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Not to the internet. It has a connection to Virgin's VoD servers, which TiVo also has

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How many apps do you think will come out and which ones.

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Iv set a wishlist for a daily programme. Ideally id like to keep just the one copy. So everyday it records the new copy over the last copy. Iv set the wishlist to one only. But it just records the next episode and keeps that one until i delete it and then records the next. Anyway around this?

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Noticed when rebooting the tivo i little blue light right at the end to the right an online light i presume when does this come on as i have never seen it come on on its own.

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The blue light is the download light. It comes on when it is downloading data.

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Yes. Also set it to "Keep until: I delete" :) (Perhaps you hadn't found that option yet!)

Edited to add:
Hang on.... what you have posted is correct behaviour. So I don't understand the problem. If it's already set to KUID then it shouldn't be recording one every day :confused:

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Yes l am using that option as l do not want to lose recordings.

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Right, what i want it to do though, is to say, record mondays edition, then record tuesday edition over it, etc, etc. This is available on the US tivo. Only keeping one edition at a time, which is an option on the wishlist.
The options available are only, keep till i delete or till space needed though.

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There is an option for keeping the amount of episodes though, not sure if it can be set to 1?

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Definately Facebook and Picassa as they are being tested. We haven't been told of any other just yet.

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Yeah, it can be, i have. But it wont record over that last episode!

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Why do you want it to do that?

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Because he only wants the latest. Very useful for news programmes. (But it works for me.)

A possible difference is I use series links, not wishlists. I'm testing it with wishlists now.

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:tu: thanks, thats exactly why. Perhaps ill just try it at a series link. On the delete option do you have 'till space needed' ?

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Yes, till space needed.

Just a thought though - what symbol is it putting next to the recordings in My Shows? Mine also likes to record news programmes as Suggestions for me, which them get bundled into the same folders.

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Ah, ok. I understand now.

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You sound like you would prefer an old VCR which you could use to "record over" existing episodes.:p:

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As do I. Sorry. I assumed the OP was using a SL which should work exactly as described.

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Tell me more about this VCR thing you talk about ;)

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It puts the single episode into a folder with a star

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Ok, I've tested Wishlists, and they keep the latest episode correctly too. All I can suggest is you delete and set up your WL/SL again.

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A star does mean it was recorded due to a Wishlist.

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Playing things close to your chest as usual

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When setting a SL you can specify how many episodes it will keep. ie the lastest 5.

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Coming soon

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Thanks for testing. Will try it as a series link

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Will it have reminders ?!:p:

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And is its SD PQ as good:D

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Hopefully there will be reminders added in future updates.

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Those have already been confirmed as coming.

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Thats just what l wanted to hear.

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Had my Tivo install this morning and well impressed so far. Also the engineer did a number of downloads that resolve the "Days to settle in" took quite a while, but apparently the engineers are aware of these discussions and the extra install process was developed to address said issues.

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Yes the tivo is a very impressive box.

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Thanks, hopefully I'll get one in time for my birthday in June :)

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If you are an Existing customer that should be the date:

Coming soon...
We'll be releasing our 500GB TiVo box in May for existing Virgin Media customers for £49.95. TiVo monthly fee and standard installation fee will apply.

If not you will need to wait until July?

Coming soon...
In July we will be releasing our 500GB TiVo box to all new customers for £49.95. TiVo monthly fee and standard installation fee will apply.

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Is there any way of scrolling down a page at a time on the EPG, rather than just going down one channel at a time?

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Use the CH up/down and that goes a page at a time:D

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I see in June Edition of What Hi-FI a review of the Tivo.
They have used it for a month connected to 46" Samsung LCD.
They say Picture and sound are Excellent ***** Five Star Product. ;)

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The fact that some people are finding the picture as good or better than V+ and some finding it worse (me being one) is puzzeling.

I wonder if there is a problem in the Cisco box production and some boxes are not being set up correctly?

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Tivo 500gb will start to be installed on 11th May, seems a cheap way to get extra pvr.

1 v+ = £49
1 500gb tivo = £49

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Maybe the interaction between certain equipment.

TV's Are A Lottery....

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2 x 500GB Tivo = 2 x £49.95 = £99.90. The price is per TiVo box

EDIT: Just realised that's not what you meant.

However the whether you can do what you've said or not hasn't been confirmed. As the TiVo box is an HD box, then it's likely the V+ would actually cost £99 as per the current additional HD rules (or the TiVo will cost more)

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Hit wrong key sorry

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I have the same concern about the TiVo remote. I have no problems with it but there are many reports about how directional it is. I can point my remote in any direction, even bouncing it off the opposite wall, and it works the box no problem. If so many others are reporting the opposite there must be a variation in production that has not being picked up by quality control.:confused:

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With those numbers who in there right mind would chose a V+ as a new install/upgrade, the only thing I could think of is the £3 monthy charge for TiVo!

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I seriously doubt they are commissioning anymore V+ boxes. I think once the current stocks run out your V+ will get replaced with a TiVo 500GB one, unless they have a 250GB TiVo in the pipe line(which I doubt)

Regards

John.

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Too true but they have said the V hd box will be able to run the TIVO software so they may start replacing them with these (unless they want to pay the extra for the PVR).

These are just my thoughts?

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Old people can't work TiVo, they can just about manage v+

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You just need to give them a chance and also a bit of teaching :D:D:D:D

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LOL :D Reading this thread has me perplexed sometimes , god help me if I ever get one.:D

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You will need a lot of help;):D:D:D:D:D

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Do VM have a patronising employee of the month award?

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Not sure but I am sure we are able to set one up :D:D:D:D

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Define old? I'm sure some old people may have issues but my parents (both over 60) had no problem with the S1 Tivo and don't have a problem with the V+ either. Though, of course, I suppose I should add that 60 isn't that old :D

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Yep, theres an app for that.:D

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I'm 66 in three days time and when it comes to tech I can run rings around all of my younger extended family. Who do they all call when the gremlins strike......yes the family elder with all the gear and they have all done very well with my recycled tech. I dragged them all into the digital age!:knock:

Old people indeed! Bloody cheek!:D

.....and I see he's a friend of yours as well Carl!

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:LOL:

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Happy birthday for when the day come and all the best to you and all your family:D

Long may the digital king reign:D:D:D:D

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My dads 74 and was communicating around the world using voice and data before the web was invented first using radio and then bouncing signals off satellites they, as amateurs put into orbit. Bloody cheek indeed!

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Well I`m not far off 60 and I dont have any problems with new tech, or old tech for that matter. cheek

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Older people have so much to offer in my mind.

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LOL, as my cameron would say, calm down dear :D

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Yes lt is a cheek as my parents are in their seventies and know so much.

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Can I just add, as if it was not for the old people we would not be here to get the new Tech.

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Morning all, is anyone else still having problems with EPG Guide, it always seems to be wrong on Comedy Central channels, its saying that Everybody loves Raymond is on, but its not, Two & a half men is on, i have just connected twice to the connect to Virgin media services now & done a restart Tivo, the EPG is still wrong can someone please check if there box is saying the same thing on them channels please, as i think i might have a faulty box.Thanks.

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same here.

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I'm not too fussy about my friends :p:

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so whats going on with the EPG guide thought it should be up to date after 7 days after install, ive had my Tivo for over 2 weeks.

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Yes l totally agree.

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I know it used to take 3 days or so for the S1's to react to schedule changes. I don't know what the figure is for the VM Tivo. If CC have changed their schedule at the last minute, this could explain the problem.

I don't know if that is the issue. I'm just offering it as a possible explanation :)

DigiGuide seems to be right though.