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I had to go and see my mother in Liverpool today,so I set the V+ box for the Chelsea v Everton match on ESPN.After I got back I banged it on straight away,but just after Chelsea scored the box came up to say it had finished recording.The last 20/25 minutes was the most exciting I believe,going off the BBC sport website.What a bummer.:(

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did it over-run?

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Yes - extra time of 2 x 15 minutes (and some more)

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Yeh,extra time and then penalties.I'll know next time to add a bit extra onto the end for such circumstances.

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An before anyone asks...

No Tivo wont fix that you'll need to set padding.

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I thought the TIVO box checked for this every 20 mins or am I wrong.

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But how would TIVO know it was over running?

Will TIVO solve the problem that happens often with the BBC of programmes startimg early?

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If I record live sport (not just football), I always set it as a manual recording, allowing plenty of time at the end of the scheduled finish - usually about an hour, if I have plenty of disk space free.

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Is this your only aim on this forum? "I can't have TiVo, so I'm gonna rubbish it, whenever I can" :confused:

For a start, TiVo would have warned you it was a live event and to set a lot of padding, even without it's EPG update.

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You are correct. TiVo is constantly updating the EPG.

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How was I rubbishing Tivo?

I was stating a FACT unless you think pointing out what Tivo does or doesn't do is rubbishing it? Oh and why CAN'T I have Tivo?

If I was rubbishing Tivo I would of said Sky managed to update the epg intime so they got the whole game recorded.

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It's not fact though as you DON'T know.. you aint got TiVo, so how could you know?

You disconnected TV, so you can't have it as you throw your toys out of your pram.

The OP has V+ not TiVo, so what are you on about? :confused:

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My toys are still in my pram and I still have 2 of my 3 VMtv boxes connected. The V+ is under the tv but disconnected. I could ring VM Monday cancel diconnection and have Tivo probably within 8 weeks. Sky havent installed my multiroom so I no problems there.

But personally I missed the extra HD channels I don't watch a great deal of TV and now I watch almost exclusively 100% HD. When I went to VM in December I lost about 6 HD channels I watch a lot off. Add that to the cost of the Tivo box I decided to return to sky. My multiroom is installed Monday morning.

I have kept VM phone and BB.Also it would be cheaper for me to stay with VM due to there package pricing.

But your state of the art tivo missed the end of the football.Old fashioned sky didnt.

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Sky TV is a great service , I just don't like some of there practices.

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You love your Sky TV and that's fine, but I feel you have an agenda on here, you've already admitted it when you were talking about DigitalSpy in another thread about your experiences.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/12/20.gif

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Gotcha! We now have your agenda exposed! http://www.addemoticons.com/emoticon...icons04252.gif

TiVo didn't miss the footie actually... the OP has V+

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TiVo was not being used by the op V+ was so far as i know nobody with TiVo has come on here stating they missed the end of the match.:confused::confused:

But your state of the art tivo missed the end of the football.Old fashioned sky didnt.[/QUOTE]

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To be fair everyone will have there own preferences , I like the BB with VM their phone service is way to pricey and their TV service has improved however still lags behind Sky , I constantly get grief off the family about cancelling Sky LOL.

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From the OP

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Sorry to be so negative but anyone who sets a cup game with extra time and penalties as a posibility without 40 extra is asking to miss the end.

At least the TiVo will ask if you want to pad recording with live sports so you can add it every time, plus a series link on live sports such as the Tour De France etc will ask you if you want to pad every rcording.

A must do with the number of ends of stages I have missed in the past :angel:

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(off-topic) I really do object to VM Staffers using these silly emotion/emoticon images.

Plus they fact they endlessy defend the company even to people who aren't customers of what service they are talking about... ;)

Edit: Please see my next post in this topic.

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Simple it is better than resorting to shouting or arguing and it is usually to lighten the moment.;)

Everyone can use them if they want here is the link http://www.addemoticons.com/emoticon...ted/index.html

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I agree. I have 2 VMtv boxes up and running and they will be running untill early/mid March so I will continue to have my say.

Once the boxes are removed I won't give my opinion as I will have no means to validate or qualify it.

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Oh, sorry, I thought you didn't have TV anymore, hence the last sentence in my post.

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Ohh it was directed at me, I didnt catch that hence my need to mention I still have 2 boxes;) Infact I have 3 but my V+ is not pluged into a power socket.

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ummmm how do you do this, I have never seen an option for manual recording (maybe I missed it) but I wouold be very interested to know how to do this

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It is on page 12 in the manual. http://www.virginmedia.com/customers/pdf/V+Manual.pdf

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Tough https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/03/72.gif

Put us on "ignore" if it bothers you that much :)

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Thanks for that, I hadn't noticed it. But as my wife would point out that I, being male will have only glanced at the manual anyway (That's her opinion anyway)

:D

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I think we are all guilty of that :D

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I've got the Liverpool game set to record on Thursday and my lovely little Tivo warned me that it was a live event and that it recommendeds I should add padding as it could over run. :-)

Good little Tivo box ;-)

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Do you have to rub the TIVO-LESS peoples nose in it https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/06/47.gif

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Sorry :-P It is a quality piece of equipment though. Worth the wait ;-)

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Can anyone with TiVo confirm it will automatically extend the recording in such cases as football going to extra time/penalties?

The warning is a good idea but would like to know if its automatic.

Thanks

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I would be interested to know if you were to use the remote record option will you be given the choice for extending the recording, say in the case of the game in question that is beng discussed?

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[/COLOR]That is an interesting question, shame know one seems to know:confused:

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I don't think it is automatic. Why else would it automatically warn you that something is live and therefore should be padded?

The only service I know of that does this is Freeview+ as its defined in the spec. (the sub based Tivo's probably do it too, but as the service is ending soonish its not terribly useful)