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Originally Posted by echelon
I wish I could afford TIVO but at £149 for activation is way beyond my current budget. I already pay Virginmedia in excess of £110 a month for TV XL V+ HD, Phone XL and Broadband XXL - even that seems expensive compared to some people I have read about on here.
I have been looking at Sky, even though I have been with cable for years - from what I seen on their website it worked out cheaper than Virginmedia, which surprised me plus I would get more HD channels and the box is free (to keep).
TIVO looked promising but they want to add a further £3 a month on top of what I am paying now, and a £149 activation fee!! Unless, Virginmedia start showing me a reason why I should be paying such a huge amount per month they will be losing me as a customer. Lately, we been suffering from too many network issues for my liking...
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You need the mini Tivo due to be launched later this year, that will help financially, rumours are that the price will be £100 less.
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Could anybody with a Tivo just answer this query please which should be straight forward.
If you select a programme from the EPG on a +1 channel and set record series, will Tivo continue to record it on the +1 channel while it is clearly also available 1 hour earlier on the “live” channel?
The reason I ask this is that I will know upfront that there may be 3 programmes I want to record at 9pm and also know I will be watching live TV on another channel at that time.
So I want to deliberately avoid the clash in the first place and alert message when I am on live TV. By deliberately setting 1 of the recordings to a +1 channel I can avoid this.
I appreciate that if I set up series recording from the wish list, Tivo will select the first available programme slot available and if 3 recordings at 9pm are setup, when I get close to 9pm I will be asked to cancel 1 of the 3 if I need to keep watching live TV, so Tivo will then hunt for a repeat recording and select the +1 channel I presume (I take it would intelligently check all 3 planned recordings to find out which one is available to do this, it does just not pick at random 1 recording to cancel while live TV is being watched and that channel may not have a +1 available, so higher risk of missing that programme if this happens?).
However I would like to avoid this in the first place and be sure all 3 recordings are in place so setting up a +1 channel recording will help me achieve this.