I love my TiVo but I have a little gripe...?
 

Hello chaps & ladies

Okay, been using my TiVo since the 23rd June and I love it to bits, although it does have two annoying features which could do with updating other than that it's awesome.

1. When you press stop whilst playing a recording, up comes a menu with a list of options which is great apart from the fact, there isn't an option for stop...? The only way to actually stop is to press TV.

2. Deleted programs into a deleted folder is a great idea because there have been times when I have had beer goggles on and deleted the wrong program. D'oh! but, within reset TiVo there isn't an option to delete all deleted programs in the deleted folder. Otherwise if you forget... Oh boy it soon becomes a massive list of deleted programs which you have to delete manually and believe me it takes ages, because I have sat there fore 20 minutes deleting..? :o:

Other than that I like my TiVo it does what I want, it programs well, no issues with controls like with V+ no glitches with channels it basically does what it says on the tin. Apart from those 2 issue above.

Re: I love my TiVo but I have a little gripe...?
 

You don't have to touch them.

They'll get automatically removed when your Tivo needs the space for something else. Just ignore them.

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Really... wow I didn't know that. although it would have been nice for an option to delete them all... another one I thought of whilst watching my TiVo tonight is the fact that the only way in which you can see how much is left of what you're watching is to pause and then look at the time remaining to watch your program. practical but a little annoying at the same time. its like having a frying pan with no handle. practice but pointless. "that's the kind of quote that Clarkson would come out with."

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Press the 'play' button instead

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They already are deleted. The deleted items folder is just a list of what can be un-deleted. Even if you deleted them from the deleted items folder they'd still technically be there, you'd just be deleting them from the list. If your TiVo needs the space it'll record over them.

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I think I need to RTFM I didn't know that one either just press play... the egg is totally on my Face and feel a little embarrassing because I lost my TiVo manual and its in their about the remaining time. I've got a PDF version.

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As mentioned you dont need to delete them from deleted items folder but I should also explain they dont take up any of your 'free space' (neither do suggestions)

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The "Gripe" I have is that unlike the V+ Box the Tivo does not have a "counter or channel setting" shown on the front, which results in having to use the ok button.and bringing up the info bar on the screen.

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Gotta gripe myself now, when I play music video's from VOD and for example any Alicia Keys vid the initial advert plays sound but the first 10 secs of the video are silent? I've posted this on the official forum and I'm just awaiting a reply. Did a quick search and this appears to be a known fault but the last update was May!? This too was on the official forum pages.

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I find that its very difficult to know if the Tivo is in standby as sometimes when I switch off using my Harmony remote amp and TV switch off but Tivo doesnt so when I switch on again the remote switches off the Tivo.

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This is a known issue.

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I did get that impression as stated from what I found on the original forum, I take there is no update yet DF?

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not yet, no. There is a big update in October, but no news of which bugs will be fixed.

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Thanks for that DF, another one of those things that bugs me but someone else might never had noticed!

Overall on the whole I'm impressed with TiVo, main gripes which needs fixing are red button and the useless stop button.

Thanks for taking the time to update me though DF.

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As other have explained they will be removed when Tivo needs space, but if you want to remove them for your own reasons have you tried deleting the Deleted Items Folder itself rather than the contents?

I am not near the Tivo now, but this works for the suggested recordings. If I see nothing there I like i delete the folder itself.

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Check your Harmony set up I have a One for the living room and a 525 for the bedroom and the work with Tivo like a dream not yet had a time when the box has not switched on/off when required.

The V+ and VHD that I had before quite often would fail to respond to power on/power off command so I ended up just adding a power toggle to one of screen buttons.

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Major gripe!

Tonight or technically it is now last night now, I had Mount Pleasant to record on a series link on Sky 1 HD. I was watching football and noticed the box recording and when I checked it was recording said program.

I go to watch the show at around 2330 and it's nowhere to be seen, not in deleted etc. I check recording hiccups and it states didn't record due to no signal?!! What! I was watching tv and had seen it recording?!

Hopefully someone can shed some light on this, I have a 500GB TiVo box.

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It seems it was unable to tune to Sky1HD, but could tune to whatever channel the football was on. This can happen because the signal level can vary between the frequencies.

I suggest you watch and/or record some more from Sky1HD, and if it happens again report it as a fault.

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Record lots on Sky 1HD and this has never happened before, it's now done this on Comedy Central HD this morning. I have a series link for King of Queens. It has two episodes every night and it recorded the first but not the second due to no video signal?! Theyre shown back to back!

Re: I love my TiVo but I have a little gripe...?
 

Sounds like your box has got a duff tuner, and it fails whenever it picks that tuner. Get on the phone to VM.

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Thanks for your help Spiderplant, I've rung and am awaiting a 24-48 hour call back, strange how this has only just begun to happen had TiVo for a while now.

Just tried recording three things and they all recorded fine, maybe a sporadic dodgy tuner?

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Possibly your signal has just dropped enough for it to start being a problem. Try recording Sky1HD, ComCenHD and Film4HD.

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Just set them to record, will keep you posted. Thanks for your time.

---------- Post added at 13:04 ---------- Previous post was at 12:31 ----------

Sky 1HD program recorded fine, Com Cen HD also recorded fine, Warlock was still recording on Film4HD but also fine.

Puzzled!?

Re: I love my TiVo but I have a little gripe...?
 

All programs have been fine since, I did reset the box yesterday.