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doc2009 · 24-12-2011, 11:32

I have had the tivo for couple of months now and although it has benefits, i also find it very frustrating.
The search feature in on demand, is slow, very slow. Music on demand search is even slower as you cannot use mobile phone type texting via your remote control, you have to use up, down, left right through a block of letters or navigate alphabetically through so many screens you lose the will to live. They have actually made the music on demand useless as you take ages to find a video then are forced to watch an advert before your song starts. You tube is worthless, again it is so slow to search, it also does not allow access to playlists or favourites that you have saved via your pc so again they (or google) have taken a great service and made it unusable. It regularly loses signal and tells you to reboot or move up or down a channel to get a fix. The on demand service allows you to seach for programmes, e.g. you type in true blood, it will tell you that 3 series exist, you assume this means that you have three series to watch at your leisure but no, when you click to start watching, you can get a brief written synopsis of each episode in each season but only season 3 episode 7 is available to actually watch, this frustrated me more than anything else as there are a few series i fancied watching only to find that despite listing anything up to 6 series of a show, in some instances only a couple of episodes were available to watch. There is a dedicated tivo forum that lists loads of other complaints about reminders, padding etc but those issues havent bothered me. As a bog standard pvr it is OK, as the future of television, no way, that is a long way and many firmware upgrades off. If i was choosing now, i would not pay the extra for it albeit it is only £3 pounds, i think it has been rushed and current users are testing a beta system.

24-12-2011, 11:32	#11
doc2009 Inactive Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 36	Re: What's good about TIVO I want to know? I have had the tivo for couple of months now and although it has benefits, i also find it very frustrating. The search feature in on demand, is slow, very slow. Music on demand search is even slower as you cannot use mobile phone type texting via your remote control, you have to use up, down, left right through a block of letters or navigate alphabetically through so many screens you lose the will to live. They have actually made the music on demand useless as you take ages to find a video then are forced to watch an advert before your song starts. You tube is worthless, again it is so slow to search, it also does not allow access to playlists or favourites that you have saved via your pc so again they (or google) have taken a great service and made it unusable. It regularly loses signal and tells you to reboot or move up or down a channel to get a fix. The on demand service allows you to seach for programmes, e.g. you type in true blood, it will tell you that 3 series exist, you assume this means that you have three series to watch at your leisure but no, when you click to start watching, you can get a brief written synopsis of each episode in each season but only season 3 episode 7 is available to actually watch, this frustrated me more than anything else as there are a few series i fancied watching only to find that despite listing anything up to 6 series of a show, in some instances only a couple of episodes were available to watch. There is a dedicated tivo forum that lists loads of other complaints about reminders, padding etc but those issues havent bothered me. As a bog standard pvr it is OK, as the future of television, no way, that is a long way and many firmware upgrades off. If i was choosing now, i would not pay the extra for it albeit it is only £3 pounds, i think it has been rushed and current users are testing a beta system.