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Originally Posted by Safcftm21
I suppose it depends on what you want from your PVR and the items you listed clearly are of interest to you and I have absolutely no complaints about that. However do you not find it annoying that say if for instance a sports program runs over then the Tivo does not automatically record the extension to the program. I know it asks when you set the program if you want an hour adding on but I just want it to happen not have to guess. Never had this issue with Sky. Remember the Canadian GP that ran over by about 5 hours, sky box recorded the lot and never had to press a button. I set a program to record last week on the Tivo but as the program before had ran over it missed the first 30 minutes. This is what I want from a PVR, not some fancy way of programming 6 months in advance or selecting an actor and recording all his films. I want to be able to set a recording, go on holiday and know for sure that it will record the whole thing no matter when it started or if it overran.
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I agree that each person's needs will determine how they rate the TiVo box's features. For example the issue of sports events running over is not a problem in our house as I am either at said event or will watch it Live (the Euro 2012 tournament being an exception as I recorded all of it as matches overlapped with the kid's bedtime routine).
However even though the box does not have a Dynamic EPG the pro active nature of the box means that it can automatically handle the more common problems faced by the average viewer. For example last year my wife set up a series link for Downton Abbey and it recorded the whole series on the Sunday. This year I had set 3 series links up that clashed with Downton Abbey. When the new series started not only did the box pick this up automatically it also chose to record the Staturday repeat and this week it will start recording on the Sunday again.
I have had at least 8 series links this year that have automatically been re-scheduled, loads more that have automatically re-started and one series we picked up as we have a wishlist for Kevin Mcloud. In our house this is more what we are after. For now this may mean that I miss the end of 1 live event each year (although if I really cared about it I'd watch it live) but this is vastly out weighed by the programmes that I won't miss :-)
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As for the channels I think we have a really good selection and I feel I am only missing Game of Thrones from a content perspective. However it does sometimes seem as though VM have trouble agreeing deals, Premier Sports springs to mind. It may not always be their fault but the perception is that they seem to have trouble dealing with content providers.