Thread: TiVo New to VM...and a few questions!
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Old 07-05-2015, 13:37   #30
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Re: New to VM...and a few questions!
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Originally Posted by passingbat View Post
Same question to you OB; what exactly did VM ruin on Tivo, compared to the US model?
They fiddled around with the Suggestions to produce a worse result, and quite a few glitches resulted when they made changes to accommodate user complaints (although they seem to have been resolved now).

The Suggestions really ought to be restored to the way they used to work and VM should tell people who don't like the suggestions to simply turn them off!

My main complaint, however, is the speed. My TIVO used to operate fine until VM started meddling with it, but now everything takes quite a long time.

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Originally Posted by spiderplant View Post
Pretty much. VM submit requests to TiVo (for example, the purple colour scheme is VM-specific), but TiVo do all the core software development. Cisco and Samsung write the hardware-specific bits. VM do develop some of the smaller apps, but all the "big name" ones like iPlayer, Netflix and YouTube are provided by those companies themselves.
There are still problems with the i-Player although it is much better than before. It still buffers when on HD some of the time.
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