[Taz2k]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

The whole reason for having profiles is to make it easier and quicker to find your stuff.

We also make used of the shared profile for the programmes we watch together.

There’s a lot of programmes on each profile, so we have plenty of choice.

A disclosure here. Back in a previous life (not really but 20 or so years ago seems like a previous life) I was involved in the development work of some of these XBMC forks. Many quirky features were added and not all were added because of consumer demand. Sometimes simply because the coders had an idea and wanted to work on developing it, whether users wanted it or not. Other times because the software had commercial versions and the sellers wanted additional features to market, just to differentiate their software from another.org's version. They were marketing features rather than must haves. Many features fell by the wayside as customers simply didn't use them. Some were discontinued for years but reintroduced later, again primarily as marketing features.

Sometimes decisions were the opposite of what customers were asking for. UK users wanted their TV channels to use LCNs as was the norm with Freeview. This would have slowed down channel scanning as 2 frequency scans were needed. The first a DVB compliant scan. The second scan to read in NorDig descriptors which carried the LCN data. Software providers went with the faster scan, more suitable to European DVB platforms which didn't use LCNs. UK users lost out, so marketing policies won that battle rather than UK consumers.

To me, profiles fit into that category. Useful to some users who prefer to micro-manage access to their content in the most convoluted way possible. You will probably see it differently.

It’s not a TiVo clone, Taz. Just make your choice based on what is best for you and your family. While you continue to have the choice, you can just stay with what you have if that works for you.

But calling the 360 a ‘downgrade’ is just mad. TiVo has some unique features which you won’t find on Sky Q either.

When VM divests itself of the TiVo software, you might like to consider buying a TiVo TV. That might work for you.

I made up my mind many, many years ago. It was never a fantastic idea to develop software forked from something with such a tenuous history. You are correct, it certainly isn't a Tivo clone. I do consider it to be a downgrade. Adding features I neither want nor need is no compromise for giving up features I want and which I use.

Idiotic comments such as suggesting a Tivo TV don't help your argument. They have absolutely nothing to do with Tivo recording features. Tivo was bought out a long time ago by Xperi, a technology company more interested in acquiring intellectual property and selling on licences to use it. Not particularly interested in continuing with actual Tivo recorders. Xperi wanted to get into selling IP licences for the TV market. They bought out Vewd Software, which itself had evolved from Opera Apps (the seldom used browser). Vewd app store was not the best, it was used as an app contributor to the early Vidaa platform used by Hisense and Toshiba TVs. Another contributor was Foxxum, which is now part of the, Singapore based, smart TV environment and online platform WhaleTV / WhaleTV+. Anyone who has bought the Manhattan Aero Freely device, powered by Tivo, will have to accept licences to use Vewd software and the device identifies on wifi networks with the Vewd name. Integration of Vewd into the Tivo brand has some way to go but it doesn't record and doesn't have the features of Tivo recorders. In short they are totally unrelated.

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

No, just correcting some misconceptions, Itshim.

More like creating misconceptions with that Tivo TV suggestion.

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Originally Posted by SonicMaster

One of the things I like most about the 360 is the universal search function so I can simply use my voice to find content anywhere across Virgin TV, Disney+, Paramount+, Prime Video, Apple TV, BBC iPlayer etc.

It's so quick and convenient.

Quick and convenient is asking Alexa to search, as can be done with Roku. Having to grab the remote, press a button and talk into the remote seems to create steps that other platforms have managed to avoid.