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zekeisaszekedoes · 04-12-2011, 11:17

The thing is, Express Series Links would be so useful if the defaults could be altered. I think it's a big oversight that TiVo doesn't allow you to change the values, and VM requesting a default amount of padding which a lot of users don't want was a foolish decision. Now they've just made getting the setting the user wants harder, which is the opposite of what a feature update is supposed to do... ditto that with the stupid "after one hour, EPG defaults to All Channels instead of staying with user preference" change.

It's not for VM to decide what is an acceptable default for all users; it flies in the face of the marketing bumph about it being one TV solution for all people. Same with all the dumb recommendation bar shows which have "We love it, we hope you do too!" tagged on. Who is "We" here? It basically looks to me like VM are trying to make the TiVo more friendly, but having a company choose what a viewer should watch by using a line like that just comes across as creepy.

If VM wants more people to adopt this, maybe they should loosen the reins a bit and stop trying to keep the TiVo so tightly controlled.

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zekeisaszekedoes Permanently Banned Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Hampshire, UK Age: 41 Services: 30Mb Broadband (XL), 2TB TiVo (M+), Samsung Galaxy Ace (M), POTS Landline (M). Posts: 823	Re: General TiVo Discussion Part 2 The thing is, Express Series Links would be so useful if the defaults could be altered. I think it's a big oversight that TiVo doesn't allow you to change the values, and VM requesting a default amount of padding which a lot of users don't want was a foolish decision. Now they've just made getting the setting the user wants harder, which is the opposite of what a feature update is supposed to do... ditto that with the stupid "after one hour, EPG defaults to All Channels instead of staying with user preference" change. It's not for VM to decide what is an acceptable default for all users; it flies in the face of the marketing bumph about it being one TV solution for all people. Same with all the dumb recommendation bar shows which have "We love it, we hope you do too!" tagged on. Who is "We" here? It basically looks to me like VM are trying to make the TiVo more friendly, but having a company choose what a viewer should watch by using a line like that just comes across as creepy. If VM wants more people to adopt this, maybe they should loosen the reins a bit and stop trying to keep the TiVo so tightly controlled.