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How do you do wish lists? What are they?

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Originally Posted by borrissey (Post 35387280)

How do you do wish lists? What are they?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnpQZZeABy8

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Cartoon Network App now on TiVo.

One to keep the kiddies happy.:)

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35387415)

Cartoon Network App now on TiVo.

One to keep the kiddies happy.:)

Especially my little lad! :)

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Mostly I have been really happy with my Tivo but recently it got me annoyed.

I have a wish list setup to record CSI this picks up original version, miami, New York and some wildlife programme called Predator CSI. It would be nice if I could put in a exclusion for predator so that the wish list did not record that. A second minor point is that because this records so many shows on so many different channels it would be really good if you could sort by series and episode number rather than date.

However my big problem is that a whole lot of recordings that I was plodding through are no longer available as Sky dropped Living Loves. The recording is there but because the channel no longer exists the Tivo box will not let me view them. This raises a few thoughts. If you drop a subscription to a channel do you also lose access to any recordings off that channel? I have had to delete each recording individually it would be much better if the Tivo box offered me the option to delete all the programmes that I could no longer view in one go.

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Originally Posted by MarkD (Post 35388638)

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You can refine your WishList Search by selecting a search term and using either the THUMBS UP or THUMBS DOWN button to modify it.

Press once to exclude a term from your search (adds a minus sign). The search will ignore any results with the excluded term in the listing.
Press again to make the term optional in your search (puts it in parentheses). The search will bring back results that contain at least one of your optional terms.
Press a third time to remove the modifiers and make the term required in your search.

Sample Searches
Keyword (CHOCOLATE) * (VANILLA) * -STRAWBERRY
Category INTERESTS: COOKING
This search will find only cooking programs with chocolate and/or vanilla in the guide data, but will ignore any programs with strawberry in the listing.

Title Keyword -FRIENDS
Actor ANISTON, JENNIFER

This search will find all programs with Jennifer Aniston except for the program 'Friends'.

The other issue with Sky Living loves, is Sky's fault as they insist any channel you no longer sub to makes your recordings unavailable. this only applies to Sky channels, all other channels are not affected by this rule from Sky.

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@Digital Fanatic

Many thanks for the info now have my CSI wish list set properly, I really should spend a bit of time going through the options and read what I can do. I am afraid I am old school and prefer proper manuals rather than on screen help and videos.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by Media Boy (Post 35385091)

Please continue discussion of TiVo here please.

Original Threads

Vol. 1: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...-page-408.html
Vol. 2: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11...-page-460.html

i dont trust tivo one bit

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Originally Posted by paulsouth (Post 35388812)

i dont trust tivo one bit

Well everybody is entitled to a opinion but it seems that 273,000 customers disagree with you according to the last 3 months.:)

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http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=4321

TiVo and Pace have announced a global partnership .

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Pace has revealed plans to port TiVo's software to Pace set-top boxes and gateways.
"The integration of TiVo's advanced television software with Pace's service provider optimized platforms will allow our mutual partners to offer TiVo's best-in-class linear and broadband TV experience with their choice of hardware. This answers strong interest from TiVo's growing list of service providers deploying the TiVo experience to their customers." said Tom Rogers, CEO and President of TiVo.

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35388816)

Um, does that mean platforms with Pace boxes will be able to put the Tivo software on them, making them, in effect, Tivo's? (Can you see where I'm going with this?)

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Originally Posted by andy_m (Post 35388874)

Um, does that mean platforms with Pace boxes will be able to put the Tivo software on them, making them, in effect, Tivo's? (Can you see where I'm going with this?)

Yes l can see where you are going with this but in my opinion a partnership between Sky Pace boxes with TiVo software is a non starter absolute.:)

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Originally Posted by denphone (Post 35388878)

Yes l can see where you are going with this but in my opinion a partnership between Sky Pace boxes with TiVo software is a non starter absolute.:)

Sky don't use Pace anymore :) they own Amstrad so make all their own. :)

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Virgin Media are exclusive TiVo partners in the UK too :)

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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic (Post 35388968)

Virgin Media are exclusive TiVo partners in the UK too :)

Until Sky offer more money than VM and Tivo say ok Sky, money talks

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Originally Posted by nstokes (Post 35389080)

Until Sky offer more money than VM and Tivo say ok Sky, money talks

No because as DF says TiVo is VM exclusive partners in the UK and l do not see that situation changing.