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Perfect Choice · 29-09-2011, 13:41

Suspect this has always been the case but noticed yesterday that if you look at the EPG when a planned recording is scheduled and you have set up padding (2 minutes say), the actual recording icon is shown against the previous programme the padding covers and not your planned programme. This is the case until the time passes to the scheduled programme and then the recording icon moves to the planned programme to be recorded.

Looks very strange if you just happen to look at the EPG during the padding period and initially makes you think you’ve set up the wrong programme to record or that was the reaction of my family last night when this was spotted.

Tivo seems to have a knack on making things difficult when they should be straight forward. The recording icon should be shown for the programme you want to record that all and not move around to cover the short recording periods either end of your planned programme if padding is set. Just wait until global padding is available and users “miss-interpret” what the EPG shows!

While Tivo certainly has useful features and the only way today to get to a 1TB storage capacity essential for regular HD recording, I have to say Tivo has the worst user interface I’ve even seen. It seems to have been designed by geeks to be watched by geeks not consumers. My family finds it so frustrating and this is not a case of additional options as I’ve seen as a reply to comments like this, it is simple bad UI design written to be functional not practical/convenient.

A usability design/simplification should certainly be considered by VM and something Tivo need to learn from.

29-09-2011, 13:41	#5115
Perfect Choice Inactive Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Nottingham Services: Maxit TV, M phone, 200MB BB, V6 TIVO, Super Hub3 Posts: 701	Re: General TiVo Discussion Part 2 Suspect this has always been the case but noticed yesterday that if you look at the EPG when a planned recording is scheduled and you have set up padding (2 minutes say), the actual recording icon is shown against the previous programme the padding covers and not your planned programme. This is the case until the time passes to the scheduled programme and then the recording icon moves to the planned programme to be recorded. Looks very strange if you just happen to look at the EPG during the padding period and initially makes you think you’ve set up the wrong programme to record or that was the reaction of my family last night when this was spotted. Tivo seems to have a knack on making things difficult when they should be straight forward. The recording icon should be shown for the programme you want to record that all and not move around to cover the short recording periods either end of your planned programme if padding is set. Just wait until global padding is available and users “miss-interpret” what the EPG shows! While Tivo certainly has useful features and the only way today to get to a 1TB storage capacity essential for regular HD recording, I have to say Tivo has the worst user interface I’ve even seen. It seems to have been designed by geeks to be watched by geeks not consumers. My family finds it so frustrating and this is not a case of additional options as I’ve seen as a reply to comments like this, it is simple bad UI design written to be functional not practical/convenient. A usability design/simplification should certainly be considered by VM and something Tivo need to learn from.