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SD quality is as good on my Tivo as the V+, if not a little better

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My SD is fine.
I did a comparison with Freesat (excellent signal) and the Tivo was better.
Same sort of difference I found with the V+ and Freesat.

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Have the update, SD quality is same for me. Best test is to see the Sky Living logo top left of screen on the channel, it's blurry. On V+ it was crisp.

When I say same, I mean same as it was before update, I.e. Blurry, washed out and grainy.

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As l say my experiences have been very good but not everybody is the same.

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When you have V+, then connect a TiVo and immediately see the SD picture has less definition and clarity, I would say that is pretty convincing. Of course it is subjective - but I would reckon that more people would prefer a crisper picture with more detail than one which looks soft, out of focus and lacks fine detail. If that isn't the case then HD is well and truly doomed.

As with any test, it is only fair if one thing has been changed. In this case V+ replaced with TiVo.

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With all the talk of slowing down, sluggish TiVo's with the dreaded 'red circle of doom' I'm starting to wonder if I've been seduced (or tricked if you're cynical) by the massive 1TB drive which I may never be able to exploit properly. I'm at only 17% space used and I'm now seeing an increasing number of delays including freezes requiring a reboot.
If some users TiVo's are performing so poorly when only 20% full what is 75% or more going to feel like?
Right now the 500GB TiVo is looking a lot more attractive.
Can anyone here post a really high figure for disk space used while also having a 'quick' TiVo? Maybe we need a poll along the lines of 'My TiVo started to slow down when it reached XX%' ?

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There is a thread over on the VM TIVO Community Forum about this and NickO has said that his is at 65% and has not slowed down:

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...wn/td-p/482887

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Any comments now, Mr Waring? Lol!

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About what? Some have said they are happy with it well before today. Are they wrong? No. They're happy. Therefore it's still subjective. All they're doing is improving it.

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VM has admitted there is a real issue with the SD picture quality, not a subjective one. Fortunately it looks as if it can be solved in a future firmware release.

Too late for me, but good news for those who have the poor picture quality issue.

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Yes, but before they did the picture was perfectly acceptable to a lot of people. Therefore it wasn't a huge a problem.

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We have two - both at around 50% (one slightly over and one slightly under) and I've not noticed any slowing down. Makes me wonder if it's by area or a faulty batch of boxes....

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And mine is going very smoothly.

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Mines only 12% full and its quite sluggish.What i cant understand is how comes the TV guide is so fast, paging down in an instant.But my shows,tv on demand,music on demand and everything else takes forever to page down through stuff displaying red rings all the time.

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Mine is at 15% started getting red circle when accessing my shows menu,

Scrolling through shows is very bad red circle all the time, have started to delete stuff now in an effort to keep it it below 15%

Seem to be a bit of a waste to have a 1TB disc ,

The rest of the menu's are fine, TV guide very fast, it's just the my shows selection that as the problem at the moment but keeping it below 15% makes it manageable,

As I say bit of a waste of a 1TB disk at the moment