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Not as far as l know but sometime down the road they probably will have some type of deal to get every customer onto Tivo.

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I thought it might. It works for me on the 15.2 software, so it's one of things that have been fixed.

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Its £49 to get one if you really want one just order it, it will probably be years before they just start handing them out.

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I've had my Tivo box for a week now and it's difficult to disagree with Sky's summary of it being a tech gizmo. It does some things brilliantly and it's nicely customisable, but it really isn't particularly user friendly or intuative.

Things aren't helped by the poor layout of the remote, but stupid things like having to press a button twice to get to the option you want when once would have done is just badly thought out.

Also having problems with series link, which I never did with the V+ box. For instance, I've set it to record New Episodes Only of Jo Whiley's Music Show and yet I checked my folders this morning and there are 4 identical episodes sat there. All of which I have to laboriously delete via several menus, because as far as I'm aware there's no single button press available to do this. :erm:
Only one of the episodes has the "New" logo next to it, so I have no idea why it would make such a basic error.

Hopefully I'll start to get used to all its foibles soon, but I'm not very impressed so far. It kind of reminds me of people who root their mobile phones and sing the praises of Android for being so adaptable, but ultimately that's not a mass market attitude - I just want it to work.

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The Clear button at the bottom left of the remote does exactly this ;)

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When you have the list of recorded programmes, press the "clear" button (bottom left button).

Also, did you choose the "New only" option when setting up the Series Link?

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Ah, marvelous. Ta for that. :D I had noticed the "clear" button seemed to be quite multi-functional depending on what menu you were in - which kind of makes it even more baffling that they would tuck it away in the bottom corner. But still, that's handy to know.

And yep, Hugh, I've set all my series links to New Episodes Only, Keep All Shows, Keep Until I Delete, Start 1 Minute Early and 4 minutes overrun. The buffering has worked fine, with no failed recordings or missed endings so far.
But the Tivo box does behave like a needy anti-virus programme sometimes, asking you if you want to trim the buffer of one programme to allow it to record another programme which airs at a similar time. That should be default surely.

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how to do you fast forward 15 mins to get to the white line? only way i can do it is by keep pressing the skip button till it goes to 10 mins and then when its reached that do the same thing again. anyway to just keep skipping in 15 min blocks? the recording is over 2 hours long (f1 race this morning which i am recording for when i get home)

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Press the button below/right of the stop button.

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thats the one i was pressing, i had to press a few times for it to get to 10 mins and it then just fast fowared until it hit 10 mins then started playing again

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You need to be fast forwarding on the button to the right of the yellow pause button and then pressing the skip button will skip to the next segment.

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thanks ill try that

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There is a suggestion on the community forum that the rest of us could recieve the Tivo update sometime between November 1st-5th

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...te/td-p/809115

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Had to laugh, went to my local VM shop on Friday to test drive TiVo but there was nothing to test, it was suffering from a technical glitch. You have just got to love technology :)

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It wont be that early ;)