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Perfect Choice · 06-06-2014, 13:17

I see a clear need for a 2TB Tivo based on today’s VM services. My family tend to watch a few series at a time but sometimes we want to record more series than those we happen to be watching weekly. So on that basis the backlog builds up and once with my 1TB Tivo I did reach maximum capacity and had to stop recording one series.

The trouble with on demand is that it does not necessarily have all episodes and keeps them for a long time. Sometimes we are watching series which were recorded over 6 months ago when the rate of weekly series recording reduces (at the moment we are only at 15% storage so we have caught up with our backlog).

There are also some recordings I want to keep and watch again in the future so use the Tivo drive for that.

The problem of backlog recordings also gets worse the more people you have in the house watching different things.

The ideal answer to this is to not go to a 1TB box but offer cloud based storage which I know has been mentioned by VM for future plans.

06-06-2014, 13:17	#36
Perfect Choice Inactive Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Nottingham Services: Maxit TV, M phone, 200MB BB, V6 TIVO, Super Hub3 Posts: 701	Re: Why is there no 2TB Tivo? I see a clear need for a 2TB Tivo based on today’s VM services. My family tend to watch a few series at a time but sometimes we want to record more series than those we happen to be watching weekly. So on that basis the backlog builds up and once with my 1TB Tivo I did reach maximum capacity and had to stop recording one series. The trouble with on demand is that it does not necessarily have all episodes and keeps them for a long time. Sometimes we are watching series which were recorded over 6 months ago when the rate of weekly series recording reduces (at the moment we are only at 15% storage so we have caught up with our backlog). There are also some recordings I want to keep and watch again in the future so use the Tivo drive for that. The problem of backlog recordings also gets worse the more people you have in the house watching different things. The ideal answer to this is to not go to a 1TB box but offer cloud based storage which I know has been mentioned by VM for future plans.