I've had my Tivo box for a week now and it's difficult to disagree with Sky's summary of it being a tech gizmo. It does some things brilliantly and it's nicely customisable, but it really isn't particularly user friendly or intuative.
Things aren't helped by the poor layout of the remote, but stupid things like having to press a button twice to get to the option you want when once would have done is just badly thought out.
Also having problems with series link, which I never did with the V+ box. For instance, I've set it to record New Episodes Only of Jo Whiley's Music Show and yet I checked my folders this morning and there are 4 identical episodes sat there. All of which I have to laboriously delete via several menus, because as far as I'm aware there's no single button press available to do this.
Only one of the episodes has the "New" logo next to it, so I have no idea why it would make such a basic error.
Hopefully I'll start to get used to all its foibles soon, but I'm not very impressed so far. It kind of reminds me of people who root their mobile phones and sing the praises of Android for being so adaptable, but ultimately that's not a mass market attitude - I just want it to work.