The Tivo Effect
 

It's what happens when you're watching a film and you happen (whilst FFing) to spot a promo for the final season of 'Smallville' and think "hang on, hasn't that been shown already?" then you remember you're watching a film you recorded in May 2011 :blush:

:D

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Serves you right for not watching the footie :o:

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Paint drying has more appeal the football 90 minutes 0-0 cant hit a target the size of a barn door. GREAT GAME :confused::o:

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I couldn't agree more Itshim. Never seen the point of football. Personally, if it doesn't have wheels and an engine then it's not for me :sleep:

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Motor bikes, yes love it ,rallying not bad . F1 leaves me cold.
Now beach volley ball is another story.

Still must not stray off topic :rolleyes:

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I thought that your game recently would have been water polo:D:D:D

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The horses drown, or ponies:shocked:

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Glad you got the joke:D:D:D

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Wow! OT after the first post. Must be some kind of record?! Where's the Mods when you need them? :D

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That's the TiVo effect!

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Looks like you found one in the end, still it gives you more time to catch up with the tivo at least :)

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Nasty

The only TiVo effect I get is I wish I hadn`t bothered :D

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Do you read from the same page every morning Itshim.:)

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If the question is asked & to Stay on topic (!) Yes
the real point of the post was the first line !!:D

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Yup we have stuff recorded over a year back now. Some we want to keep, some we just haven't watched yet. There is so much space on the box.

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Love the room it offers - but then never "filled" my V+
Also the look of it. Ill stop here before young Den has a go!!

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Come Itshim you don't want to be frightened of little old me as l am a real pussycat really.;):D

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And a great cook :D

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That raises a lot of questions:dozey:

---------- Post added at 14:07 ---------- Previous post was at 14:06 ----------

I am more worried about you blood pressure :D;)

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Well l do my best but l am no Raymond Blanc.:)

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No need to worry about my blood pressure as its permanently on the lower side of normal.:)

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Heh heh. Mine is borderline :D

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The Tivo effect, hmm. mp4 encoding is more efficient than the V+ mpeg2. Makes better use of the available hard drive capacity. Still a clunky interface though. Slowly getting used to it. The V+ is now in the bedroom and I have to put the bedside light on to use the remote. The Tivo in the lounge I can now use with my eyes closed. (Up to the point where I need to watch the programme that is) :D

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All broadcast channels on VM are MPEG2. TiVo doesn't re-encode them.

MPEG4 is only used for some on-demand content, which you can't record anyway.

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I found a similar problem here.

I watch Hawaii Five-0 on Sky 1 HD but it is usually a good two or three weeks later that I watch them. One of the recent episodes was a crossover with NCIS: Los Angeles. Well I don't watch NCIS: Los Angeles so I was a little annoyed when I found it was a two parter but that the second part was done on NCIS. As I don't watch it, it didn't record!

I trawled through on demand listings, on all our three boxes' suggestions but nothing. I found the episode when using the search facility but it showed that this episode wasn't due to be on TV (or available on demand). I still haven't seen it!

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We had this same problem on our (now-replaced) Scientific Atlanta V+ - several programs dating back several years that were being kept. We stuck with what was clearly an ageing box for a long time because of it.