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tvout · 12-06-2011, 02:00

Hi all,
With the installation of Tivo due this Friday I'm still trying to decide if I'll be happy with it as I had a call from VM this morning about reminders and they told me they wouldn't be likely. Anyway, aside from that I believe the Tivo only has one Scart socket whereas I think the V+ boxes have two which suits me well having a CRT TV, DVD Recorder and VCR all connected through scart.
I also read somewhere about the quality of the Tivo over Scart wasn't that good.
I'm assuming the Tivo is aimed towards owners of newer TVs more and I'm also not massively fond of the concept of recording everything to watch it all at another time.
Thing is, aren't they changing the V+ boxes to be like Tivo as well so will I end up with a Tivo box with 160GB capacity in a sense. Also how would that work if a Tivo install has its own 10MB broadband connection?
Just worried I'll be paying £50 and be unhappy with the Tivo as they said I could go back but would lose that money.
Hopefully they might get cheaper or at least the £50 offer will still be there in the future if I opted not to go ahead with the install...

12-06-2011, 02:00	#1
tvout Inactive Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: West Midlands Services: VM L Broadband (10MB) XL TV V+ HD Box Off peak caller phone HTC Wildfire on T-Mobile UK Freeview Posts: 600	Tivo with scart and CRT TV Hi all, With the installation of Tivo due this Friday I'm still trying to decide if I'll be happy with it as I had a call from VM this morning about reminders and they told me they wouldn't be likely. Anyway, aside from that I believe the Tivo only has one Scart socket whereas I think the V+ boxes have two which suits me well having a CRT TV, DVD Recorder and VCR all connected through scart. I also read somewhere about the quality of the Tivo over Scart wasn't that good. I'm assuming the Tivo is aimed towards owners of newer TVs more and I'm also not massively fond of the concept of recording everything to watch it all at another time. Thing is, aren't they changing the V+ boxes to be like Tivo as well so will I end up with a Tivo box with 160GB capacity in a sense. Also how would that work if a Tivo install has its own 10MB broadband connection? Just worried I'll be paying £50 and be unhappy with the Tivo as they said I could go back but would lose that money. Hopefully they might get cheaper or at least the £50 offer will still be there in the future if I opted not to go ahead with the install...