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Originally Posted by Gemini43
Oh It's all so different from my old V+HD box. Recording a series was a whole lot easier with that. Frankly I found it a lot more straightforward. You seem to have to jump through a lot of hoops to do anything with the Tivo. It's one menu after another!  |
Although Tivo may seem more difficult to set up series links than V+ at first, it doesn't take too much time to realise that Tivo is better.
I remember the first day that I got Tivo, I'd written all the days and times of every series link that I had on V+. I then entered them into tivo at the same exact day and time. I was then surprised that Tivo was saying it would record a particular show at an earlier day and time to what I'd set the series link up to. This was because tivo has 3 recordable tuners and the V+ just 2. So for shows that I'd had to set manually to a repeat showing on V+ due to recording clashes on the first showing, Tivo knew that now wasn't necessary and recorded the first showing. More than that, for every recording clash that i had on the V+, I had to figure out how to resolve that clash myself, spending time searching for repeat showings; Tivo does all this automatically; all you have to do is set the series link and tivo does the rest. It's not perfect because there isn't a repeat showing of everything, but Recording hiccups will show you any problems that it can't resolve; the V+ has no feedback in that regard at all.
The odd show clash that Tivo can't resolve can often be resolved by changing series link priorities; making shows on channels that don't have repeat showings so much, a higher priority than those that do.
The concept is different for Tivo with regard to series links, and once you realise that, Tivo is way better than the V+.