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rmwebs · 03-07-2012, 23:46

As someone who moved from Sky to Virgin Tivo in December last year I can say that whilst I do prefer Tivo (the series links, search and on demand content are the best bar none) it does have some minor annoyances, such as having to go through a million+1 screens to watch a piece of on demand content...for example:

(lets say you want to watch an on demand episode of 'Ice Road Truckers':
1. Home
2. Down to 'On Demand'
3. Across
4. Down to 'TV For XL'
5. Press ok
6. Go all the way down to Nat Geo (or Discovery...cant remember which one its on)
7. Press ok
8. Go into the correct channel sub-menu (E.g Discovery HD, Discovery RealTime, etc)
9. Press ok
10. Go down to the program you want
11. Press ok
12. Go to the episode you want
13. Press ok
14. Press play
15. Press play again
16. (depending on content) Enter pin

This could be simplified a lot. Obviously you can use search which cuts out steps 2 - 9 but you've still got to type it out, go to the program info, go to on demand content, etc.

Tivo does feel old when you use it, and its not really surprising, its a very old system. But it is damn powerful! That being said, I personally prefer the overall UI of the older 'Liberty' system used on the VHD and V+HD boxes. We've got a VHD box in another room and its so much faster to browse around menus.

03-07-2012, 23:46	#9
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: Is it worth coming back yet? As someone who moved from Sky to Virgin Tivo in December last year I can say that whilst I do prefer Tivo (the series links, search and on demand content are the best bar none) it does have some minor annoyances, such as having to go through a million+1 screens to watch a piece of on demand content...for example: (lets say you want to watch an on demand episode of 'Ice Road Truckers': 1. Home 2. Down to 'On Demand' 3. Across 4. Down to 'TV For XL' 5. Press ok 6. Go all the way down to Nat Geo (or Discovery...cant remember which one its on) 7. Press ok 8. Go into the correct channel sub-menu (E.g Discovery HD, Discovery RealTime, etc) 9. Press ok 10. Go down to the program you want 11. Press ok 12. Go to the episode you want 13. Press ok 14. Press play 15. Press play again 16. (depending on content) Enter pin This could be simplified a lot. Obviously you can use search which cuts out steps 2 - 9 but you've still got to type it out, go to the program info, go to on demand content, etc. Tivo does feel old when you use it, and its not really surprising, its a very old system. But it is damn powerful! That being said, I personally prefer the overall UI of the older 'Liberty' system used on the VHD and V+HD boxes. We've got a VHD box in another room and its so much faster to browse around menus.