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Originally Posted by Risco
I say get the UI running slick, and add features later. Oh and hurry up and get the flip out keypad remote. I think it is unforgivable not having this as a default ship for a box that needs so much text input to get the best out of it!
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I think that's more TiVo's fault than VM's. The equivalent Premiere HD unit in the USA shipped before the slide out keyboard remote was ready, and comes as an extra that also requires a bluetooth dongle, which in turn would require the USB ports on the VM TiVo to be activated, I would assume. (Although the USB ports do work if you want to charge something, so it's not like they're completely switched off.)
Personally I'd be happy with consistent SMS-style entry on the numeric remote buttons because I don't use the search much. It's possible on the iPlayer app, but not on the regular TiVo menus.
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Originally Posted by passingbat
If that is the case, then the design team are complete idiots.
How can the padding implementation, after they've had it modified, be worse than the V+?
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Ideally the TiVo firmware should compensate for padding if recording two programs back to back on the same channel: I'd say program it to keep recording and ignore padding settings, then split the file later. But of course I don't know the way TiVo handles recordings, just guessing at a solution based on the simplest, most logical (and therefore most likely to work) option.
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Originally Posted by andy_m
By the way, does anyone know if there's anyway to get my tivo to record suggestions in hd if its available? Its picking up some really excellent stuff, and I'm by no means an hd junky, but if a programme is on an sd channel and its hd equivalent at the same time I'd rather have it record the hd one.
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This raises an excellent point. Currently the VM TiVo will allow separate series links for the exact same show on different channels, rather than being smart enough to say "why don't I just record all non-repeat instances of this program across channels?". I think this runs contrary to what TiVo usually does, and could be considered a weakness of this VM version of the firmware.