Thread: TiVo Tivo Not Making Any "Suggestions"
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Old 15-01-2014, 08:47   #18
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Re: Tivo Not Making Any "Suggestions"
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Originally Posted by andy_m View Post
I'm pleased that a fix is on the way, but will it ever get back to how it was? I really miss the joy of finding a scheduled recording of a new episode of, say, Family Guy had been joined in its folder by 6 or 7 classic episodes. I can't believe people ever complained about that. Couldn't Virgin have pointed out that they don't take up any room rather than pander to them and mess about with one of TiVo's best features? I don't want to reignite old arguments, I know some like reminders etc, but it does seem to me that Virgin spend more time trying to change things to suit the noisier subscribers and not enough time actually explaining TiVo to them.
Good post, Andy. People moaning about Suggestions clearly didn't understand the reasoning behind it.

Personally, I didn't use it much because I do know what is out there programme-wise, but some found it useful and what a pity that they had to fiddle with it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it is my motto.

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Originally Posted by gizuk View Post
How does that make sense? I thumb up things i like buy don't want every episode recorded. Why would it actively avoid recording these? That's not at all how tivo was originally designed even from the series 1!!

Suggestions used to be great to delve into if I'm bored. Now there is NOTHING there i want to watch. At least there is hardly any now they have limited the number of suggestions! Stupid changes!
I half agree with you, gizuk, but not the bit about not wanting every episode recorded.

To my mind, Suggestions can be like another channel on demand. The box gets to know what you like and records one-off and whole series of programmes until you delete them or there is no more room on the disk. There is nothing worse than only having parts of a series recorded, that's no good to me.

If you have given the thumbs up to a programme, the TIVO should assume that you are aware of that particular series you are watching and that you have it on series record.
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