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Originally Posted by muppetman11
SD picture quality , rebooting boxes , intermittent remote record , having to select first run and rerun due to bad EPG data , to long winded to set up series links the list goes on.
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SD Picture quality:
Not as good as V+, but nothing was as good as V+; it stood out for it's upscaling, and frankly, it amazed most people that a box like that could produce such a good SD picture. Remember, upscaling is
'guessing' values for pixels that don't exist!
VM should have kept the same standard, but it still produces a better picture than freview tuners.
I've just watched a recorded episode of Castle (Alibi) and i was very happy with the picture. I was actually impressed with the recording of Justified (five USA) I watched a couple of days ago.
Rebooting:
I've got two Tivo boxes, and neither of them has re-booted.
intermittent remote record :
haven't tried it so can't say.
having to select first run and rerun due to bad EPG data:
This actually doesn't cause a problem because of the '28 day rule'; once it's recorded the episode, it won't record a repeat until 28 days later, so you don't end up with multiple recordings.
I agree the EPG should be correct though and this should be fixed so that you don't need to do this workaround for new episodes. I believe it's mainly US shows as sometimes it's picking up the US first run date?
to long winded to set up series links
I set up over 20 series links the first day i got Tivo, and it was
way faster than setting up that number of links on V+. once you know the settings you want, it takes no time at all to go in and change the options to what you want; at least there are options; on V+ there weren't any!
I do think it would be good if Tivo remembered your last settings though; maybe something they will add later?
the list goes on:
What else?