Thread: TiVo Tivo Not Making Any "Suggestions"
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Old 03-04-2014, 14:19   #78
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Re: Tivo Not Making Any "Suggestions"
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Originally Posted by spiderplant View Post
The old algorithm inadvertently gave more weighting to programmes in series, which put standalone movies at a disadvantage. 1 or 2 thumbs on movies had no effect. It could record movies as Suggestions, but only with some ardent thumbing.
To my mind, the system should be geared around the thumbs. This way, if you liked, say, Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica, the system would pick out other programmes and films with a similar genre (in this case, science fiction). It should not bring you in at the middle of a series, or just record a one off programme from that series, but it should record all the programmes in the series and maybe advertise it at the top of the home screen on the TIVO to alert you to it.

I'm afraid that although a late convert to Suggestions, just as I was beginning to take notice of it, the thing was totally corrupted! I do hope VM have a re-think about this, and soon! Done correctly, it's like having another TV channel 'on demand' that is geared to your likes.
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