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Originally Posted by Johnlouis
@jobbie8- I'm also finding SL and quite a few other features hard to get the hang of, and also can't quite understand why TiVo marks multiple identical episodes of shows to record. But I've only had TiVo for two days, and I'm hoping to find my way around eventually. My main gripe at the moment is Parental Controls. It's a real pain to have to enter a PIN to watch a recording. Might not sound like much but it really gets up my nose. As for the PQ, I also found it quite quite awful on some channels. Then I saw a post (can't remember who the poster was- sorry!) that said they had changed the Video Output to 720p. This made a considerable difference to the Picture Quality IMO. Just make sure you select the "Continue" button (to the top right of the screen) when you select the 720p option, and not just press "ok", or TiVo won't save the option.
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Thanks for the info on the PQ, the installer set mine to 1080i, will check it out. Glad Im not the only one whos finding Tivo hard to get the hang of.
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Originally Posted by muppetman11
Carl wrote
That's because the V+ only dumbly recorded the episodes you set it to record. Tivo is more intelligent and will always record the next available airing. To record a specific showing you will have to set a Manual Recording; thus defeating the whole object of having a Tivo
Maybe I'm different here but if I set my box to record Hawaii Five O for example on Sunday night at 9pm, then I want it to continue this trend every week until the series finishes , not record it's first airing and potentially cause a clash.
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This is what I meant, Ice Road Truckers recorded tonight and is going to record tomorrow, and I always recorded Click on BBC News channel on a sunday morning at 11.30am on the V+. I have just checked my planned recordings, Tivo is going to record 8 versions of the same Click on BBC News over the coming weekend even though SL is set to "new". To me thats crazy, if Tivo is more intelligent why is it doing this?
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Originally Posted by carlwaring
After just two weeks?  Though you don't mention if it's just you or a family. |
Just me, I recorded some Carry Ons and other films from ITV3, plus my 18 or so series links all HD
My wife is'nt impressed with Tivo, has'nt used the recording feature yet, and she has stopped watching Music OD because she cant be bothered to troll through the listings.
My son has the V+ in his bedroom so does'nt use Tivo as yet.