[savvychels]

Originally Posted by starfish

Same here, although we only have one TiVo. I like to decide what to watch and when.

On another note, just in case I am missing something (don't think I am though). I was really pleased to see the Reminders function on the list of features - yes, I liked it very much on the V+ and I have missed it. Of course, I should have known it would not be as straightforward as that. As I understand it, I cannot use Reminders without recording the programme as well - well, that's just bloody useless. When I record a show, it's for watching it later and I don't need to be reminded. Were I to use a reminder, it would be for watching the show live so that I wouldn't forget, if busy, and if I were late I could rewind to the beginning.

Oh well, maybe there is a technical reason why it can't be done separately.

In order to switch over the channel at the beginning TiVo needs to reserve the Tuner. In order to reserve the tuner it has to set it to record. If it didn't reserve it to 'record' then another recording could take priority over the 'live channel change'. With V+ it had a dedicated 'live' tuner that was never used for recording so it could just switch the live tuner from one channel to the other.

Hope that made sense.