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Originally Posted by LexDiamond
Some people find the fact that there are certain aspects of the Tivo that they cant control as making the PVR more complex.
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A beautifully succinct explanation of TiVo technophobia. Good job!
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Originally Posted by muppetman11
It's a PVR nothing more nothing less
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Oh, I'd argue it's far more than that. I have a Humax FoxSat PVR and while it's a great unit (allows transfer of recordings too) compared to a TiVo it's nowhere near as useful or fully featured. The WishList feature alone makes TiVo a more powerful platform.
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Originally Posted by greeninferno
My first reaction to Tivo was wow look how much more TV it opens up to you
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Exactly. As I've mentioned already, before TiVo I couldn't watch broadcast TV at all.
I think the problem could partially lie in age and previous experience with technology. To generalise a bit, your average person in their mid-forties or older tends to have trouble moving away from the broadcast schedule TV model. Indeed, when I lent my TiVo to someone else in the house who was considering getting another on the account and fits that age range, they didn't make a single recording or use the catchup facility even after I'd provided them with the manual and given them a whistlestop tutorial of fairly rudimentary TiVo features. Not once in the whole month. They just couldn't get their head around the whole "on demand via streaming or recording" thing that TiVo does.
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Originally Posted by kop32
Well this is right up there with your most useful posts,  ,when are you going to get the message??? |
Probably never. It's amusing that he is quite often guilty of the very thing he accuses other people of so bluntly.
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Originally Posted by andy_m
I'd just like to place on record my thanks to the OP, and those who have posted similar reviews. TiVo falls down in my opinion on the amount of instructional information available from Virgin, which is a big reason, I think, why people consider the product so complicated. Threads like this are invaluable sources of information.
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And the tragedy is most people who would find the information so useful aren't the type to browse forums, either.
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Originally Posted by caph
It's the incredibly slow paging up and down in My Shows (this has got better with the update but is still painful).
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Yeah, that's one I need to add to the list of improvements thread. The "SMS style alphabet entry" model you get from the search TV option should extend to My Shows. Even the USB keyboard letter do nothing, when in fact they should jump to the letter you've selected. Big oversight, that.
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Originally Posted by caph
The fact is that HD is slightly blurred on the Tivo, whether this is deliberate or not I don't know, certainly some people don't seem to mind the softer HD as much. I prefer it pin sharp. It's just personal perference.
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TiVo has a softer picture through the HDMI, in my opinion. I cranked the Sharpness control up to 100 (maximum) on all four of the TV display modes (they include these things so you can have a nighttime setting, a daytime setting etc) and now the TiVo is just as pin sharp as the Cisco V+ HD box was when the Sharpness was at about 50-60.
Correct TV calibration is just as important as any other factor when reviewing the image quality of a given device. I've been able to make even an old Amiga look pretty decent through the SCART socket of my Samsung LCD with tweaking of the many picture settings it offers, especially stuff like White Balance to make sure the colour gamut/temperature is closer to correct.
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Originally Posted by stereohaven
I've let the Wife know some of you think she doesn't have a brain and she deems it the opinion of an uninformed, narrow minded idiot, and I tend to agree.
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"...and now she complains of a headache when I'm trying to get my leg over..."
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Originally Posted by stereohaven
She said "apology accepted", but she wasn't upset really (it is just an anonymous internet forum after al!), but trying to make a point that it's easy to make assumptions based on how you are coming at something and not considering that other people don't view a product in the same way.  |
Oh he does that often. You get used to it. It helps if you chide him a bit.
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Originally Posted by stereohaven
I like to tinker.
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That'll be written on my bloody tombstone, mate. So do I!