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Do any of you lucky people with TiVo use it in conjunction with a Harmony remote?

I can't find the specific model in Logitech's database but does it work fine with the codes for V+HD or the US TiVo box?

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Both the Tivo downstairs and the V+HD upstairs are connected to HDTV's, but the Box Office service Virgin offer isn't HD.

I do use HDMI to connect to both TV's.

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Good question, would like to know that too.

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Yeah Sky box office in HD would be a great addition to VM, but will never happen....

Just a pipe dream I guess..

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I think someone said it's down as V+ v2?

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Where is your evidence for that? How do you know what people are thinking or doing? Yes, you know some are complaining about lack of tivo, but you have no knowledge of what other things they consider important and whether lack of tivo fits in their priority list.

All decent people know that lack of tivo is miniscule in the grand scheme of things; it's so obvious there is absolutey no reason to state it. That doesn't preclude them from complaining about the tivo roll out.

Maybe you're assuming that the people on here aren't decent? If that's the case, maybe you need to get a new perspective on people?

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The V+ codes will work as far as they go, but the TiVo remote has a few extra buttons that you'll need to teach it.

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:td: Wrong forum and if we use your logic we cant get annoyed at anything or we have to think about something "worse". Using emotional blackmail isn't a good tactic.

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Some good info here

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...d.php?t=465253

And this post

http://www.avforums.com/forums/14317553-post893.html

answered in this one

http://www.avforums.com/forums/14320091-post895.html

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I set my Harmony 555 up not long after install, gave me something to do while the EPG was updating as it takes a couple of hours to do this after it is first turned on.

If you select Cable box as the device type, Virginmedia as the Make and TiVo as the model it should find it.

However, I still had to teach it some buttons, about 8 or so if I remember correctly. Took me a little while to get it spot on but that was mainly due to the fact I hadn't had to use the Harmony software for over a year.
There may be an easier way to do it but if I honest I just wanted to get it done and check the box out :D

It works well as you would expect from a Harmony remote. My only annoyance is that the 555 model doesn't handle quick button presses on the arrow pad very well which wasn't a problem on my old SA V+ because that was slow anyway but TiVo is lightning quick and the Harmony slows it down a touch. But that is a hardware issue, another model might be OK

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Can anyone confirm if the TiVo remote can turn TV sets on and off from Stand By? Much frustration with the V+ remote was that you could alter TV volume but not turn a TV on from stand by, which I've had to keep the original TV remote around for.

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Yes it can and you can switch sources on the tv by holding down the text button.

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Sad you think that. Really sad.

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Thanks Lew. Shame you had to point that out again.

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As it wasn't mentioned, it's hold the Power key for a couple of seconds to turn the TV on and off ;)

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Thanks for that, t's under Cisco CT8685.

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Is that a niggle that is just waiting for an software update?

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Yes, it's in the TiVo roadmap so to speak :)

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I would expect so. TiVo doesn't do VoD in the US, so it has to be specifically written for the Virgin version

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I am assuming so, but considering Cable offered Box Office about 15 years ago on a service less powerful than an iPad is today, I find that Tivo can't offer Box Office ridiculous.

Virgin Movies On Demand is fully on offer yet this is just too much to ask, lol.

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Live Events work very differently from a platform point of view.

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Grrrr is all I can say, lol.

The irony being outside David Haye against one of the Klitschko brothers, WrestleMania would be the biggest money maker for Virgin in terms of a live event order.

Not the best time to have an entire channel out of order I guess, lol.

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It's not that it can't, it's that the software support it's done yet.

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indeed... would people rather it was delayed for a few months while we get that added?

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Yeah, I have a decent picture of what the situation is now in my head. After the phone call this morning saying it isn't an option and it will be later, I wasn't left with a great deal of options.

I'll try swapping my set top boxes about on Sunday night and hope the Tivo being disconnected for four hours plus doesn't mess it up, lol.

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There seems to have been a few niggles lately with one thing or another. :D

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Save yourself £14.95 and the embarrasment of watching grown men in tights, kid on their hitting each other!

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Too much for my liking, wait.............................we've got a patch for that!

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Wrestling is a soap for men. We all know it's fake, but the storylines are pretty entertaining.

Sure paying £15 for an extended episode of eastenders might sound a bit weird, but it's far more entertaining.

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April the 4th is the official launch date for TIVO, thats when you can book an install. They are behind schedule they didn't except that it would create this much interest...

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Is the press launch still happening tomorrow (Wednesday 30th) as posted last week? also are the e-mails to the pre regs been sent out from tomorrow or has that been delayed?

Techradar review of the TiVo box has been uploaded.

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/aud...-938954/review

They have give it 4 starts out of 5.

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Do you have a link for that information?

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Should I watch grown men in shorts roll around faking injury from another man's tackle instead?

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What ever floats your boat. :D

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OMG your clutching at straws with that arguement!

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Not really. It's the same homophobic logic you used to try and mock someone elses taste but nevermind, I am not really in the mood to explain or justify my taste in TV to you or anyone else.

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Who is that aimed at?

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Interesting article

Will it keep the TiVo fans and television nuts happy? Yes. Is it the most powerful box on the market? Yes. But is it better than Sky's flagship 1TB Sky+ HD box? Not yet.

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There is only one way to find out "FIGHT":D

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So it does a butt-load more and costs the same/less than the 1TB box but isn't as good because of slight interface complexities brought on by the extra functionality?

Yet again, TechRadar FAIL ;)

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At least they are both competing now, competition is a good thing.

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Damn forgot to ask her for a link on the phone... sowey.

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I can selectivley quote as well :D

I'm sure VM/Tivo are polishing as we post :D

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So, you got that from CS and believe it without questiion?

You didn't say where you got the info from, hence me asking the question.

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The huge amount of things that you can do are well laid out and simple enough, but it's still more complicated to do simple things than its closest rival; the Sky+HD 1TB box.

Just kidding passingbat we'll be here all night LOL.

It looks a good box and the potential is certainly there when everything is ironed out.

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You could be right on that one. Having not got a tivo yet, I can't say, but I do wonder that if they wanted to, a person could just use it as a V+ (but with the extra recording space); i.e., just set series links and other recordings and ignore the extra functionality, making basic operation as simple as a V+?

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Hope u enjou it when you get it , I'm sure you will.

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Good fair review about TIVO. Now can I have one please? :rolleyes:

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Will TiVO get the Live Events Channel (Channel 0).

If it doesnt thats a major setback and all the WWE fans wont like it.

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Of course TiVo will get it.

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The double buffer sounds a nice feature in the techradar article , I know a few have mentioned it on here.

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Actually it's a triple buffer now the third tuner has been enabled ;)

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5 out of 5 on Electric Pig http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2011/03...a-tivo-review/

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So it is Ben , as I say a good feature.

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It's interesting that every review I've seen for either VM TIVO or the US TIVO premiere picks up on the HD - SD screen issue, you would think TIVO would have made all screens HD , maybe they will in the future.

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Yeah, I'm sure they will.

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I like the end of the review...

"and if you are a Sky customer coming to the end of your contract – maybe now is the time to ditch the dish and enter the world of fibre optic."

I'm sure VM will too! :D

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4th April is quoted as availability date on page 34 of the April/May "electric!" magazine.

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To a lot a dish is the only option especially new build estates , although I believe VM signed a deal with Persimmon homes recently.

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Yes they did:

http://pressoffice.virginmedia.com/p...053&highlight=

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Sky contract ends April 2nd; Tivo + broadband + phone install booked for April 1st... on tenterhoooks till then.

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Thanks everyone for the answers regarding the TiVo and Harmony remotes! :)

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Get ready for the rants to start and also welcome to the forum:welcome:

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At least pre reg are getting it first NOT.

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he's a series 1 TiVo owner by the looks of it. :)

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Damn, you're thorough DF!! Took me ages to work out how you came to that conclusion ha ha

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I do like TechRadar but's what's up with moaning about how the remote should be simplified and then asking for a QWERTY keypad in the against section.

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Got me! S1 TiVo still going strong - and hopefully will long continue to do so .

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I bet you can't wait to get TiVo back... you'll love it! :)

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I did not have a S1 TIVO or any other but have to say that i love the VM TIVO and do not how i lived without it.

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Not after June it won't unless you're prepared to do some tinkering http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...d.php?t=466430 not sure I can be bothered for the little I still use the S1 for

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Curious as to how this work, on the current V+ you can only rewind the channel your on.
How does this work with the tivo, can you rewind any 3 channels, or is it 3 that your recording, or is it if your flicking between 3?
Cheers in advance guys.

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He's got VM's TiVo on order for next week :)

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You can switch between 3 tuners in the mini guide. :)

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Yes but, the question was, can you rewind any or all of the three tuners?

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I know, but he did say he'd got the S1 and was hoping to continue to use it, same situation as me really ('cept I've already got Virgin's Tivo :D), my S1 has been the 'upstairs' PVR since V+ came along and I had hoped to continue with it but since Tivo are dropping the feed for the S1 in June I may have to look around for something else.

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Yes you can rewind all 3

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Pretty cool feature that.

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Hey DF you know that with all the questions and the answers that you are giving recently you are getting to be BOB THE BUILDER:D:D:D

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T3 review (aka, 'more polish required, Virgin!'):
http://www.t3.com/reviews/tv/digital...ame=0&ns_fee=0

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Without owning a TiVo yet, that T3 review pretty much sums up my current thoughts.
The perfect PVR is within touching distance, VM just need to sort out the EPG mistakes & give it the ability to update in realtime, red button, Box Office, the catchup issues mentioned in the review & the ability for it to have suggestions recorded in HD when available. Then I believe we'll have the greatest set top box on the planet. :)

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Wasn't the catch-up problems sorted in one of the update?

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I don't know because I'm not lucky enough to own one yet, maybe someone else can confirm. I certainly hope that's the case. :D

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Yeah catchup pretty much works now. There's also iplayer, which sometimes has things not on catchup (in HD if available).

Since the last update Tivo seems to pick HD when it's available (which is somewhat controversial for those who only have SD TVs).

EPG is fine, and for any errors there are feedback channels (eg. the thread on TCF) although I haven't noticed anything major (the one thing I did notice got fixed after it was pointed out.. and in that case Sky had it wrong too..).

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Then comes what's proved to be the really hard part: letting the majority of existing customers use the bloody thing! ;)

Interesting that TechRadar & T3 are saying the same thing: It would/will be a Sky+ HD killer if/when certain issues are fixed and polished.

I think this was/is an on-going fix, according to a thread at TCF.

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Has anyone tried logging on to myvirginmedia it's VERY SLOW and whole virginmedia website is slow does this mean things are happening underground???

Tried again got a service unavailable error???

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Sky may as well throw the towel in now then LOL :D

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Anyone else noticed that the hard drive doesn't stop buffering?

When I first turn my TiVo on in the mornings I can rewind any of the 3 tuners more or less an hour back. I havn't found a need for this yet but a nice touch.

The other handy feature is when you are fast forwarding through adverts. I don't know about anyone else but no matter how quick your reactions are you never press play quick enough when the adverts stop and have to rewind back a little so you don't miss anything. When you press play on TiVo it actually skips back around 10-15 seconds automatically. I believe this is from the old TiVo's and I find it quite handy (Sad I know)

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he he :D

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I don't know. When I had an SDTV I still watched the HD channels when available as the PQ on the HD channels (downscaled by my V+ box) was usually better than the over-compressed SD channels.

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Still picking sd versions most of the time,Very annoying just constantly deleting suggested programs

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Yes :)

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Yes I like this feature too :)

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You need to improve your reaction times LOL :D I always stopped my V+ and Sky+HD box in time are you sure it's not Stella slowing your reaction times down LOL.

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It actually depends how fast you are going

It only skips back on the 'really' fast forward options

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I dont (hiccup) know what (hiccup) you (hiccup) mean?!?!? :D

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There's no need to delete them. They'll be deleted automatically when the space is required.

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Can the TiVo be set not to record all these "suggested programmes".

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...and am I right in thinking that you can also do what Sky used to criticise V+ for not being able to do?

Record a program from the beginning if the beginning is in the buffer even if it is past the start time.

Of course, if you can, it's times three.

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Yes you can turn it off.

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Yes you can

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When the majority of people are on TIVO over the next few years with 100meg then available nationwide with possibly 200 meg out , will this have any affect on the network during peak times ? Just thinking with possible YouTube streaming on TIVO possibly Lovefilm etc and potentially higher OD usage.

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Just noticed this over on the VM TIVO FORUM which was posted last night?

Hi all

As you know we recently launched the BBC iPlayer app on the Tivo service, with numerous advantages such as the complete catch up library, including HD, radio shows and subtitling.

This great app will develop over time and we are working with BBC to find a way to put all the new content into our catch up area, 7 days backwards grid and global search. However while we work on this integration we won't be able to offer access to iPlayer content through these other routes. Instead you can simply press the red button when watching live BBC channels or go straight to the Apps and Games area where you will find the complete iPlayer app. You can search the full BBC library through the app's built-in search functionality.

Thanks

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I'd like to retract my statement about HD, it now looks stunning!

The jury is still out on SD unfortunately, maybe I need to get a better TV set as mine is a couple of years old now :p: