Originally Posted by Risco (Post 35462382)

Anyone else get this? Apparently some exciting new features are coming. Apart from reminders, what other features could these be?

Originally Posted by andy_m (Post 35463304)

Whilst I think some of these implementations-only allowing a maximum of minutes padding, not being able to change the keep until setting-are clearly silly, I do think people should be prepared to try living with the current defaults for a while. If you've tried them and they don't work for you then fine, but if you haven't then try only setting express series links for a while. I genuinely think you'll be surprised at how clever TiVo is-for me the way it manages itself is it's best feature. I really think Virgin would have been better spending it's time and money educating it's customers on how best to use it's flagship product rather than develop add ons that were'nt in the original coding for over 10 years for a reason.

Originally Posted by spiderplant (Post 35463335)

The problem with "keep until I delete" is it reserves space for all the planned recordings. I saw an extreme example recently where the user had about 60 series links, mostly daily programmes like Jeremy Kyle and Bargain Hunt, all set to KUID. The TiVo was refusing to accept any more recordings even though the drive was only 37% full.

Use KUID for the things that really matter, and let TiVo manage the space for everything else.

Originally Posted by Perfect Choice (Post 35463333)

"keep until space needed" is just crazy.

Originally Posted by Perfect Choice (Post 35463333)

"keep until space needed" is just crazy, why do VM make things hard here as hardly anybody would want that type of approach. Much prefer it to be Tivo says its cannot record when no space is left so vast majority of users would want the default to be "until I decide to delete" (or whatever Tivo says as the option, not near my box right now to check). Tivo already alerts you when it does not have enough space, I've reached that limit once alreday. Don't like the idea Tivo can delete items by itself without me being aware, it should be my decision. Feel another "feature tweak" is required!

Originally Posted by passingbat (Post 35463351)

Why limit user choice?

Originally Posted by carlwaring (Post 35463357)

They're not.


No.


Wow! Hyperbole much? :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by passingbat (Post 35463362)

Given that you can't changbe the Keep until option, they are limiting choice

Originally Posted by passingbat (Post 35463344)

With the greatest of respect, I've been using PVRs of one kind or another for a lot of years now and Tivo for well over a year and I know how to get the best out of it for me, and that is not by using the current defaults.

Originally Posted by carlwaring (Post 35463370)

which I agree do seem to have been implemented badly,

Originally Posted by andy_m (Post 35463371)

Like I said in my post, "if they don't work for you then fine". However, I suspect that a lot of people are complaining about the way this has been implemented without having given it a go. I was furious when the last update gave us 1 and 4 padding, and went on and on on this forum about how ridiculous this was as a solution. I wish I'd tried it first-works perfectly for me.

Originally Posted by passingbat (Post 35463373)

There is no way I will set up any recording without the 'Keep until I delete' setting, so that rules out the defaults right from the get go.

Originally Posted by passingbat (Post 35463351)

every recording I have set on Tivo since I got it has neen set with Keep until I delete. And I record a lot on Tivo. I have never had a problem..