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Perfect Choice · 16-04-2011, 18:15

Had Tivo installed this afternoon (Nottingham), quick install on around 40 minutes only. Installer who came wasn’t the person planned (his vehicle had broken down so he was fill in at last moment but had installed Tivo before). The installer was friendly but didn’t have full knowledge of all Tivo features and admitted I probably knew more than him on features. Fine, nice for him to be honest. Required a manual hit to activate but smooth replacement of SA V+ at least.

Few points:

1. Tivo remote control not controlling volume, installer was told to state press TV and Clear button together until 2 green flashes are seen on the remote, then press 0999 and then keep pressing the channel up button. This tells the Tivo to request TV settings apparently and can take up to 2 hours so patiently waiting to see when I can control volume. Take it there is no other way, if yes please post details, I have a Sony KDL40HX803 TV
2. Have to say picture definitely looks not as sharp as the SA V+ when viewing SD channels, can see that “softer” effect other people have mentioned. Tivo has auto selected 1080i for HDMI signal which was the setting I had on the V+ as well. Not the end of the world but the only slight negative so far among many positives, but something is definitely different between the 2 boxes form my picture experience, didn’t expect an older box to be better at SD up scaling but the SA V+ clearly is.
3. Had to use an equaliser on the Tivo box input as my signal was slightly high, no problems just thought I would mention.
4. Lost 3 recordings of Sky One Fringe on the old box because I made a mess of recording them onto to DVD earlier (selected wrong input channel to DVD recorder!). Nothing Tivo can do about that of course but shows need for VM to do a deal with Sky on catch up/OD content as it is a gap with popular programmes in my house e.g. Fringe, House, etc, and it will be some time before Sky repeat episodes of the current series. I am not in my wife’s good books right now but a price worth paying to get a Tivo!

Now I just need to get the kids off the Wii (attached to the same TV) to find out more!

Having no problems with the angle for the remote control by the way, seems fine wherever I am in our room.

16-04-2011, 18:15	#1825
Perfect Choice Inactive Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Nottingham Services: Maxit TV, M phone, 200MB BB, V6 TIVO, Super Hub3 Posts: 701	Re: General TiVo Discussion Part 2 Had Tivo installed this afternoon (Nottingham), quick install on around 40 minutes only. Installer who came wasn’t the person planned (his vehicle had broken down so he was fill in at last moment but had installed Tivo before). The installer was friendly but didn’t have full knowledge of all Tivo features and admitted I probably knew more than him on features. Fine, nice for him to be honest. Required a manual hit to activate but smooth replacement of SA V+ at least. Few points: 1. Tivo remote control not controlling volume, installer was told to state press TV and Clear button together until 2 green flashes are seen on the remote, then press 0999 and then keep pressing the channel up button. This tells the Tivo to request TV settings apparently and can take up to 2 hours so patiently waiting to see when I can control volume. Take it there is no other way, if yes please post details, I have a Sony KDL40HX803 TV 2. Have to say picture definitely looks not as sharp as the SA V+ when viewing SD channels, can see that “softer” effect other people have mentioned. Tivo has auto selected 1080i for HDMI signal which was the setting I had on the V+ as well. Not the end of the world but the only slight negative so far among many positives, but something is definitely different between the 2 boxes form my picture experience, didn’t expect an older box to be better at SD up scaling but the SA V+ clearly is. 3. Had to use an equaliser on the Tivo box input as my signal was slightly high, no problems just thought I would mention. 4. Lost 3 recordings of Sky One Fringe on the old box because I made a mess of recording them onto to DVD earlier (selected wrong input channel to DVD recorder!). Nothing Tivo can do about that of course but shows need for VM to do a deal with Sky on catch up/OD content as it is a gap with popular programmes in my house e.g. Fringe, House, etc, and it will be some time before Sky repeat episodes of the current series. I am not in my wife’s good books right now but a price worth paying to get a Tivo! Now I just need to get the kids off the Wii (attached to the same TV) to find out more! Having no problems with the angle for the remote control by the way, seems fine wherever I am in our room.