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Originally Posted by jobbie8
As I read your posts Carl, I know you love Tivo, and I kinda like it too, but as you say, padding, reminders, I used interactive everyday to check news and weather, just came home from work and pressed red button, saved time loading pc up etc, and we used Music OD alot too, but with no search option like on other Virgin boxes its a massive pain just to play a video. Typing in is a major pain too, not just for me but the rest of my family too. My wife is not impressed at all.
Also my recordings often get duplicated and with the constant epg errors, and Im now finding the Tivo slowing down as I said before, Tivo, as it is right now Tivo is not for me and the feeling of wasted money has a bitter taste.
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I think the problem arises if people upgrade thinking Tivo will be Just an enhanced version of V+ when it is actually a completely different system/ technology. As such it will not (at least initially) have all the functions that V+ had. (a bit like upgrading from a bicycle to a car and being concerned that it doesn't have a bell!)
I tend to think that a lot of these functions were pretty old technology anyway for example I have several wireless devices which I use to access news, music etc. And I would never use reminders when I can record anything and watch it when I choose.
So, for me, the many advantages of Tivo make it miles ahead of v+ - even in its infancy. However I do appreciate that some people do still use these features and, for them, may be more important than the much more advanced PVR features. If that is the case I would agree it probably is not a good idea to be an early adopter of the new system.