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Old 08-07-2013, 13:44   #359
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 3.

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Originally Posted by MarkC1984 View Post
Oh yes I agree the TiVo has strengths that SKY don't have on their SKY+ boxes. However, a dynamic EPG would give Virgin and the TiVo box yet one more plus point.
But do we know that the way Tivo operates is actually compatible with a dynamic EPG? The EPG seems to be downloaded in a sort of batch mode, generally overnight - could it handle frequent real time changes, with knock on impacts on recording clashes, series links etc. etc. without impacting on performance?

Certainly the BCC in particular were up to their old tricks during Wimbledon swapping things between channels at short/no notice (for no good reason - evidently nobody these days has a BBC1 only 405 line BW set). But other than that, is it really such a problem?
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