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Originally Posted by LincsGuy2005
I hope his colleague who is on the way to me now knows that as well!
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Update: he didn't. I now have a new TiVo.
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Originally Posted by Jameseh
If you see no benefit to 5x the storage, quick access to catchup, suggestions and the ability to record three shows at once (and soon share those recordings) then yeah.
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Yeah, I agree that three tuners and 5x the storage is great, but when there's no effective and easy way to dub the shows you want to keep for longer to DVD, or to store them on a PC hard drive, whenever there is a problem and the box needs reformatting or swapping, that advantage is wiped out in an instant. I lost over 250 hours of TV this afternoon.
I was using the iPlayer app on the new box to watch this week's Frozen Planet (which I had recorded on the old box but not been able to watch due to the rebooting) when a scheduled recording started. I was unceremonously dumped out of iPlayer to watch the recorded programme. When I went back into iPlayer (which takes long enough in itself), I then had to hunt around for the point up to which I had watched. Presumably the same dumping out of iPlayer would happen if a 'suggestion' was recorded on any tuner? Quick access to catchup maybe, but reliable viewing it aint.
I probably haven't given enough thumbs up to shows to make Suggestions viable; I have yet to find anything in there that I want to watch. I only have one TiVo so streaming between them is not something I am ever going to do.
TiVo is being marketed as a VM premier product. I feel like I have spent the last 8 months beta testing a product that was not fit to be released as an "upgrade" from the V+ box in the state it was when first introduced. With the 15.2 update it is getting closer but there are still some fairly glaring glitches and omissions such as the iPlayer dumping when recording starts, lack of reminders, no dub to DVD facility, inflexibility of recording padding, lack of Red Button functionality, etc.
Premier product? Naaaahhh.
