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jagsman · 13-08-2011, 04:08

After reading through some of the posts on here, I find it totally unbelievable that some posters are telling people, that to get an up-to-date EPG, you should do a manual update. The sad thing about this, is that these posters are right in what they are saying.
The problem I have, is that along with this advice, their posts should be filled with some heavy duty industrial language aimed at Virgin. But they dont. Why not? We are paying a premium of £3 per month for the "privelige" of having TIVO, but what is the extra money for? Well it's not for a decent EPG, is it?

The FA announce on Tuesday that the England game is off. I go out on Wednesday morning and buy a newspaper, and its tv schedule is more up to date than my TIVO EPG. What <Deleted> century are we living in here? Its a complete embarassment. Virginmedia's flagship product, slower than the print media.

I know someone suggested that the EPG servers would not be able to cope if everyone was updated at the same time. Well why not stagger it? At the moment they are only updating every 24hrs or so, what the hell are the EPG servers running on, some tech's laptop. This is a multi-billion pound company who's aim is to make the fastest digital experience for all its consumers, yet it cannot update 50,000 boxes more than once a day. What's going to happen when it rolls out TIVO to all its customers? Updates once a fortnight?

If Freeview and Sky can have an up-to-date EPG, then so should we. No compromises, excuses or <Deleted> Just get it done.

13-08-2011, 04:08	#4711
jagsman Inactive Join Date: May 2010 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 107	Re: General TiVo Discussion Part 2 After reading through some of the posts on here, I find it totally unbelievable that some posters are telling people, that to get an up-to-date EPG, you should do a manual update. The sad thing about this, is that these posters are right in what they are saying. The problem I have, is that along with this advice, their posts should be filled with some heavy duty industrial language aimed at Virgin. But they dont. Why not? We are paying a premium of £3 per month for the "privelige" of having TIVO, but what is the extra money for? Well it's not for a decent EPG, is it? The FA announce on Tuesday that the England game is off. I go out on Wednesday morning and buy a newspaper, and its tv schedule is more up to date than my TIVO EPG. What <Deleted> century are we living in here? Its a complete embarassment. Virginmedia's flagship product, slower than the print media. I know someone suggested that the EPG servers would not be able to cope if everyone was updated at the same time. Well why not stagger it? At the moment they are only updating every 24hrs or so, what the hell are the EPG servers running on, some tech's laptop. This is a multi-billion pound company who's aim is to make the fastest digital experience for all its consumers, yet it cannot update 50,000 boxes more than once a day. What's going to happen when it rolls out TIVO to all its customers? Updates once a fortnight? If Freeview and Sky can have an up-to-date EPG, then so should we. No compromises, excuses or <Deleted> Just get it done.