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Originally Posted by BenMcr
It's not about being clever or not, it's about the concept of what a PVR is
For TiVo it's about the content i.e. you want to record 'Eureka' not 'Whatever is on Channel 4 at 8pm on a Wednesday'
For the V+ it's the other way around for the most part - when you set something to record you are doing it based on the time/date more than what the show is
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Understand the principle of content based searching and would be happy with that approach if TiVo did it properly. Content based services are subject to the quality of the content source and that is clearly lacking thus reason why generic content seems to appear on some programmes and we get this mess. The issue is Tivo works on assuming a “perfect source of information” which is not reality and it handles the lack of specific programme content information poorly.
I am actually looking forward to content based searching which is really of use i.e. when Tivo has access to content based sources rather than channels. On the subject of movies for example, I remember a demo of the Tivo Premier in the USA search for movies across all its sources namely Netflex as well as channel sources, so searching for content from any source.
Happy when Tivo gets there, but still waiting and content access to films is just one area I feel Tivo is looking like it is getting left behind with TV/Xbox/PS3 having film access sources and then I also have to watch those iPad users travelling back on the train from London watching their programmes taken from their Sky box. Catch-up please Tivo!