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zerolight · 09-12-2006, 09:03

I'm chiming in to this thread too. The software is just appaulling. Tivo, 4 years or more ago, had far more impressive features.

1. Why can't NTL download the TV Guide locally to the HDD on the TV Drive so that it is far more responsive. I'm fed up navigating sluggish screens and finding that it's lost the programme information anyway. With a cached database, not only is it more responsive, but you can search by pgm name and get instant results. Heck, Tivo had a month in advance.

2. What's with the Parental Lock. There's no option to remove it. Why?

3. The remote bug is annoying as hell.

Number 1 above, to me, is inexcusable in a PVR. What's the point of having a PVR if the TV Guide is virtually unusable. I could sit down with Tivo and spend a 10 mins setting it up to record every TV show I watch with a season pass. I could even tell it only to record new episodes that had never appeared on UK TV before. With NTL I have to SLOWLY navigate through a weeks TV on every channel to find anything, and 9/10 the guide data is missing anyway. What a let down.

09-12-2006, 09:03	#24
zerolight Inactive Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Glasgow Services: V+ and 50mb Broadband Posts: 169	Re: NTL TV Drive Problems I'm chiming in to this thread too. The software is just appaulling. Tivo, 4 years or more ago, had far more impressive features. 1. Why can't NTL download the TV Guide locally to the HDD on the TV Drive so that it is far more responsive. I'm fed up navigating sluggish screens and finding that it's lost the programme information anyway. With a cached database, not only is it more responsive, but you can search by pgm name and get instant results. Heck, Tivo had a month in advance. 2. What's with the Parental Lock. There's no option to remove it. Why? 3. The remote bug is annoying as hell. Number 1 above, to me, is inexcusable in a PVR. What's the point of having a PVR if the TV Guide is virtually unusable. I could sit down with Tivo and spend a 10 mins setting it up to record every TV show I watch with a season pass. I could even tell it only to record new episodes that had never appeared on UK TV before. With NTL I have to SLOWLY navigate through a weeks TV on every channel to find anything, and 9/10 the guide data is missing anyway. What a let down.