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Originally Posted by thelem
This depends on how your household uses the boxes.
If you're independent adults living in a shared house and you've each got a box in your room, then you'd want it to just show your recordings, with a way of finding other recordings when your housemate happened to mention a great show they'd been watching.
If you live alone and have a box in the lounge and a box in the bedroom, you don't want to have to think about which box you were on when you made the recording - you'd want it to show up the same everywhere.
I've seen mention of profiles. Can you have your old behaviour by both using your own profile?
It's all very well saying wait for the software updates, but this isn't new software. It's already in use in other countries, so I'd have expected them to have resolved problems like over-recording series links and audio syncing by now.
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I don't know what affect profiles have as I've not tried them out. I'm not saying the situation in this household is "normal" but my point was that it would be nice to be able to set a default view that is remembered. The old TiVo software let you get recordings off other boxes if you wanted but it wasn't the default list of recorded programmes. It's not a big deal but just want what was expected because of the way TiVo behaved.
And I'm not suggesting the current software is good. Far from it. I even said I wouldn't recommend upgrading if you have TiVo at this point in time.
Also, how much of the software from other European deployments is maintained for the UK version? How much of it has been rewritten? Did the do updates to existing software or deploy completely new hardware for everyone? Genuine questions.
All this has an impact on testing and the isolation of issues. I agree however that some of this should probably have been spotted sooner.
This software is far from perfect and agree some of the missing features should probably have been added before it was rolled out. At no point did I suggest that relying on software updates was an acceptable situation for feature that are missing. Virgin should have been more transparent about the differences and features that you'll lose. They did do that when TiVo first launched as there was some functionality loss initially. Red button and reminders spring to mind.
But this isn't been forced on anyone who has a V6 and as I said at the very end of my post, I wouldn't recommend it.
The main point of the post to be honest. To help people who didn't know what to do have a bit more insight.
This all assumes it's Virgin's intention to replicate TiVos features with their own software which I suspect isn't the case. They'll cherry pick the ones that have the most value I suspect. Again, I have no insider knowledge on the matter. It's just my take on the situation.
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Originally Posted by fox35
Can someone please explain Watchlist, the extremely poor substitute for Bookmarks, and how it works, specifically why not all epg content can be added?..So what is the point?
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In its current form it feels like what you have on Netflix. A place to gather shows that you intend to watch on a single place for ease of finding later and it's agnostic to the source. Netflix's decision not to allow third parties to aggregate their content aside.
I've not come across EPG content that couldn't be added but didn't look into that deeply. What have you found so far that doesn't work?