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rmwebs · 15-05-2012, 18:12

I'm happy with Tivo. For me I love the on-demand content and the recent app updates with content from the likes of Nat Geo is certainly a great step.

That said, as someone who moved away from Sky, the sky epg is much faster. We were on a 10+ year old sky box, and even that was faster.

The biggest annoyance with Tivo is the idiotic menu system that means hat if you want to watch, say an episode of 'Mike & Molly' from On Demand you have to do this:

- Menu
- Go down to On Demand
- Go Right and press on demand tv shows (or whatever it says
- Go down to TV XLL
- Go to 'Browse By Channel'
- Go down to 'Warner TV'
- Go all the way down to 'View All A-Z'
- Go all the way down to 'M'
- Go along to access the 'M' content
- Scroll down to 'Mike & Molly' & Press ok
- Scroll down to the episode you want to watch and press ok
- Press play
- Press play again.

Thats idiotic and could be simplified, especially where you have to press play twice!

The VHD box we have is a lot more snappy. The liberty system may look a bit pants, but its certainly more stable and fast.

The iPlayer crashing is also a pain, and there is also a bug that when you get to 99% disk usage, the entire My Shows section slows to a crawl.

I do hope these get addressed, but given VM's lackluster attitude towards these kinds of things, I doubt it'll be any time soon. That being said, what we're getting now is a million times better than what we had with Sky.

15-05-2012, 18:12	#41
rmwebs Inactive Join Date: May 2007 Location: St Albans, Herts Services: TV XL w/ All Sky HD Collections. 2xTivo, 1x VHD Phone XL Broadband XXL Posts: 91	Re: So Long Tivo - Back to Sky - Close but no cigar! I'm happy with Tivo. For me I love the on-demand content and the recent app updates with content from the likes of Nat Geo is certainly a great step. That said, as someone who moved away from Sky, the sky epg is much faster. We were on a 10+ year old sky box, and even that was faster. The biggest annoyance with Tivo is the idiotic menu system that means hat if you want to watch, say an episode of 'Mike & Molly' from On Demand you have to do this: - Menu - Go down to On Demand - Go Right and press on demand tv shows (or whatever it says - Go down to TV XLL - Go to 'Browse By Channel' - Go down to 'Warner TV' - Go all the way down to 'View All A-Z' - Go all the way down to 'M' - Go along to access the 'M' content - Scroll down to 'Mike & Molly' & Press ok - Scroll down to the episode you want to watch and press ok - Press play - Press play again. Thats idiotic and could be simplified, especially where you have to press play twice! The VHD box we have is a lot more snappy. The liberty system may look a bit pants, but its certainly more stable and fast. The iPlayer crashing is also a pain, and there is also a bug that when you get to 99% disk usage, the entire My Shows section slows to a crawl. I do hope these get addressed, but given VM's lackluster attitude towards these kinds of things, I doubt it'll be any time soon. That being said, what we're getting now is a million times better than what we had with Sky.