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Originally Posted by dodgem22
They said widespread to me but refering to speed/responsiveness of box issues not being confined to one geographical area
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Ditto.
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Originally Posted by Stephen
While not instant 20 seconds really isn't that long to wait.
Remember the hardware in the VM TiVo is now over 5 years old. So its never going to be ultra fast.
I personally don't think that a few seconds access time really counts as a wide spread nationwide issue.
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I do, having to wait 20 seconds for it to load my shows and another 20 seconds to start playing is a major irritant and inconvenience.
A night watching TV constantly watching a black screen or spinning circle just isn't good enough.
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Originally Posted by Stephen
I think if VM had just offered the standard TiVo software then the boxes hardware could have coped fine, however VM have had the TiVo UI and background stuff so heavily modified and customised that perhaps that was their problem.
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I suspect that this is the case.
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Originally Posted by mike_gain
...but they're going to be out of the game soon, they don't update their software enough and are being left behind.
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Exactly.
Some seem to try to defend the TiVo performance by saying that it's 5/6 years old, but this is a part of the actual problem!
And Denphone, I don't "hate" VM, I hate the performance of the TiVo
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Originally Posted by oibaldy
Had an engineer round as half my TIVO functions were not working. Once he had sorted them out, I mentioned about how slow my box was. He said that a couple of weeks ago, they were getting no end of call-outs and swapping slow boxes before something got flagged up that it was a widespread problem which they then linked to the last update. He claimed that they were working on a fix and would not swap any more boxes, since it was pointless, but also claimed the new box would be out in a couple of months. On launch, it will have 6 tuners, but has the potential for double figures (I think he said 14, but at that point I was trying to work out who would even need 6!)
At least I know it's not just my box that is slow, despite what some forum members claim  |
If this is correct, I wonder how they would increase the number of tuners?? Perhaps they are in there, but not activated?? Maybe a hardware upgrade to the box??
AIUI, the new box will have 7 tuners; 6 to record from and 1 to facilitate delay TV.
If they can somehow double the number of tuners, the extra one may be created by allowing the delay TV tuner to be used as a permanent recording tuner (as is the case now).
I don't think that 6 tuners is excessive, in fact this is the only reason why I haven't left VM as I don't think that any other box has this (apart from Sky who I don't want to use if I can help it).
If you are recording from the main 5 channels at peak time and something from one or two of the pay channels 6 tuners would be very useful.
It means less clashes, more HD recordings, less having to record the next available showing, which in turn leads to even less clashes!
Hopefully, this would enable me to turn padding back on.