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Perfect Choice · 19-04-2011, 08:56

This sounds really basic but I could with some advice to stop a recording you are watching.

When I am watching a recording, if I decide to stop the recording and press the stop key, I am presented with a screen with the options to “Resume Playing, Delete Now, Bonus Features, Explore this show, More Options” and the recording seems to be still playing in the picture box top right. What seems to be missing is the obvious option of “stop programme”!

The only way to exit seems to be to press the TV key so have I missed something here which seems really basic?

One of the consequences though is that when you do go back to the recording you start where you last watched which I thought was a feature Tivo didn’t have but is exactly what we want, rather than having to guess and use the forward/15minute jump keys to find out where you stopped before.

I am still fighting a rearguard action with my wife to defend my Tivo purchase. My family want to go back to the V+ as the UI was simpler and used more of the green/red/blue/yellow buttons to provide instruction for you e.g. page up/down were the green/red keys on V+ while you have to use the channel up/down to do the same on Tivo. It’s a battle but I will defend my Tivo purchase to the end! While Tivo has many great features, there certainly seems to be a weakness in usability design and something to enhance over time would help.

One other query if anybody can advise. If you watching a programme, you press the OK button to bring up the mini guide which my wife uses to scroll through channels. The only annoying thing is that if you stop for some time the mini guide will eventually disappear and if you go back to it again it returns to the begging of the channel lost when previously you may have already been though a good proportion of the list and so have to scroll down again. On V+ once you brought up the mini guide it stayed there until you decide to delete it. So another annoying niggle for my wide to have a dig at me so is there any way to stop the mini guide disappearing after around 20 seconds or so as it does now?

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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 This sounds really basic but I could with some advice to stop a recording you are watching. When I am watching a recording, if I decide to stop the recording and press the stop key, I am presented with a screen with the options to “Resume Playing, Delete Now, Bonus Features, Explore this show, More Options” and the recording seems to be still playing in the picture box top right. What seems to be missing is the obvious option of “stop programme”! The only way to exit seems to be to press the TV key so have I missed something here which seems really basic? One of the consequences though is that when you do go back to the recording you start where you last watched which I thought was a feature Tivo didn’t have but is exactly what we want, rather than having to guess and use the forward/15minute jump keys to find out where you stopped before. I am still fighting a rearguard action with my wife to defend my Tivo purchase. My family want to go back to the V+ as the UI was simpler and used more of the green/red/blue/yellow buttons to provide instruction for you e.g. page up/down were the green/red keys on V+ while you have to use the channel up/down to do the same on Tivo. It’s a battle but I will defend my Tivo purchase to the end! While Tivo has many great features, there certainly seems to be a weakness in usability design and something to enhance over time would help. One other query if anybody can advise. If you watching a programme, you press the OK button to bring up the mini guide which my wife uses to scroll through channels. The only annoying thing is that if you stop for some time the mini guide will eventually disappear and if you go back to it again it returns to the begging of the channel lost when previously you may have already been though a good proportion of the list and so have to scroll down again. On V+ once you brought up the mini guide it stayed there until you decide to delete it. So another annoying niggle for my wide to have a dig at me so is there any way to stop the mini guide disappearing after around 20 seconds or so as it does now?