[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by oliver1948uk

Having used Tivo for well over 6 months, I am afraid I agree with the wife and daughter of Henkesghost.

Of course, I have a different opinion

You have to remember that Tivo does far more than, say, Sky+ and therefore the interface has to take this into account. It may take some getting used to but I wouldn't be without it now

Promoted as the way to watch TV in the future, Tivo does not even have real time updated programme guide!!

And yet I have managed quite well without one for ten years!

In my opinion, VM should have put a larger hard drive into the V+ and further developed that as it is much easier to use and has several features still lacking in Tivo.

A larger hard drive wouldn't have improved the UI or the "lock up at midnight" problem. V+ was (and still is) as dumb a DVR as Sky+.

If you are the type of person that likes putting thumbs up and down by programmes (what happens if a brother and sister do opposites?) and wants things to record that you did not ask for ...

Of course, these two are related so if you don't enable auto-record of suggestions then who thumbs up/down what doesn't matter.

Some people on this forum find that a useful feature. More useful, I dare say, than reminders. But let's not go down that road again

...and don't mind when episodes for what you DID ask for are suddenly deleted because you did not manually set it not to delete

That has never once happened to me in ten years. But then I tend to delete stuff after I've watched it and not leave anything un-watched for too long.

Also, I believe that V+ also has a similar feature but of course you like the V+ so not surprised you haven't mention that

(why does it do that?)

It only becomes an issue if you let the hard drive get too full.

Many of us just want an easy to use, reliable recorder with the mininimum of button presses.

Which is fine. But many of us (around 500k now I believe) want something better.