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Originally Posted by passingbat
I'm sorry Carl, but I'm beginning to think that your blind loyalty to tivo is getting in the way of your reasoning.
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Not really. I take your points. Just don't agree with all of them.
And Mark Wilkin's an idiot anyway
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Originally Posted by neilo
My prob with Until Space Needed is that things have vanished on me when I've used that. I know the hourglass appears for a day or two and says its going to be deleted but I've lost a few things before I realised what was going on.
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I can only assume that either your Tivo is nearly always full and/or you have a lot of things set to KUID because my Tivo has auto-never deleted
anything since I got it
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I know we all have our opinions but that's mine and unless someone can give me a good reason why that default is not there for a free choice by the user, when it used to be there, I'm always going to think it is another silly silly thing.
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The reasoning has already been given; which is that "until space needed" is the best option to use to allow Tivo to work properly.
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Originally Posted by passingbat
Yes, that is the one thing that V+ was better at than Tivo. Because of the way Tivo handles this, and potentially clips shows, I went for zero padding right from the get go with Tivo and have had almost no problems.
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The best thing to do is to turn Overlap Protection off and not use it
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Originally Posted by passingbat
So, how come I've never had any?
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How full is your Tivo?
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Originally Posted by passingbat
I think, and could be wrong, but that is just recording priority; it won't use these when deciding what to delete first.
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You are right. It just deletes the oldest first.