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Originally Posted by oliver1948uk
My recollection of Tivo in its early days was constant freezing with reboots taking for ever, poor picture quality, recording only on two channels at once, slow operation.
Though much improved (but still without dynamic EPG - unbelievable) I still do not hold it up as the wonderful creation that many on this forum do. Perhaps when the bugs are sorted and with 5 years of development the Horizon box will be better than Tivo.
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TiVo is much better than the old virgin STB's but it still has a long, long way to go in my book. It's very slow, menus lag, screens are incredibly inconsistent (With many dropping down to SD for some reason) and it's not very intuitive in places.
Prime example I discovered last night - wanted to watch the Great British Bakeoff (huge fan).
Went into the catchup menu, A-Z, went to G - not listed. Took about a minute to get this far.
Went into OnDemand menu, got asked which package to look at - XL, L, M, etc. - I'm on XL, picked XL (Why on earth couldn't this be more automated?), scrolled down to G, scrolled down all of the shows, eventually found it listed. Took maybe 90s as each button press takes 1-3s to respond. Noticed it mentioned that I had a series link already! Brilliant, would rather play it from the hard drive than stream it.
Back to the start, navigate to my shows, find Bake Off, says I have 10 episodes. That's fine, except
Tuesday's Wednesday's episode isn't listed - this is all the last series. Odd.
Looked at the series link options - it's already set to new episodes and repeats, it even lists that the next episode to air is next
tuesday's wednesday's so why didn't it record?
Turns out the program has moved from BBC2 to BBC1. Had to set up a brand new series link to catch it. That's exactly the kind of issue that could have been easily avoided (Why does the series link need to be per channel? I have software on my server that's clever enough to know when and where a new episode is showing, TiVo should be capable of doing the same - in fact, it KNOWS this already because it tells you!).
Ended up having to stream it anyway, which meant trundling back through the menus. Must have taken a good 10mins - and of course, you have to manually enable HD when streaming from iPlayer.