TiVo General TiVo Discussion Part 2 - Page 254

denphone · 12-05-2011, 06:47

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Originally Posted by Chad

Can anyone confirm how many customers now have Tivo? Any of you guys who work for Virgin have a ballpark figure?

That is anybody,s guess but l would say as a estimate 50.000 maybe.

Lance · 12-05-2011, 07:59

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Also I rang VM up today to enquire about the 500GB TiVo and they said that I would have to pay the Â£3 per month extra even though I already pay it for the existing box. Also I was told that the box would cost Â£99 activation as I already have one (plus the Â£40 install which I expected). Can anyone give any more info on the cost of the smaller TiVo when this is a second box.

Sorry I forgot to mention that I already have an old digi box (Pace - non hd) that I would want to replace with the smaller TiVo. I pay Â£6.50 a month for this, I don't think it is relevant to the price they quoted but thought I would mention it.

Digital Fanatic · 12-05-2011, 09:30

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Originally Posted by Lance

I've been watching this thread for some time as a guest but thought I would join so that I could post some questions.*
I have had my TiVo since the 16th April and had a S1 from about 2002.*
I logged a call last week a out an issue with on demand. When I go to the TV on demand and view all shows it displays a left pane with ABC, DEF etc. If you select ABC then right arrow on to the selection of programs then press page down it thinks for a out half a minute then displays a message that there are no programs to display (not sure of the exact wording). VM couldn't fix the issue over the phone and so an engineer came round on Saturday. He put in a new box to test and this had the same issue, luckily he had not initialised the old box and swapped it back. This was later found to occur on a test box that his boss tried later back at their office. This issue also seems to fail looking at the list of HD on demand, anyone else had this issue.*Also I rang VM up today to enquire about the 500GB TiVo and they said that I would have to pay the Â£3 per month extra even though I already pay it for the existing box. Also I was told that the box would cost Â£99 activation as I already have one (plus the Â£40 install which I expected). Can anyone give any more info on the cost of the smaller TiVo when this is a second box.*

Thanks for your help.*

That's a known fault in TV Choice, you shouldn't have had a tech call-out for that. Ref is 1596460.

alwaysabear · 12-05-2011, 10:38

As I do not have a TiVo could I please ask one of the members who do, whether you can Edit recordings made on the TiVo? Sorry if this has been discussed before.

carlwaring · 12-05-2011, 10:54

No. Not at all. Not sure why you'd want or need to either

Watch then delete. That's what it's all about

mersey70 · 12-05-2011, 11:00

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Originally Posted by carlwaring

No. Not at all. Not sure why you'd want or need to either

Watch then delete. That's what it's all about

Unusually I agree with you, most people watch and delete which is why I have never understood the need for a 1TB HDD.

alwaysabear · 12-05-2011, 11:09

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Originally Posted by carlwaring

No. Not at all. Not sure why you'd want or need to either

Watch then delete. That's what it's all about

Thanks, it was just a question , nothing sinister.

Digital Fanatic · 12-05-2011, 11:15

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Originally Posted by mersey70

Unusually I agree with you, most people watch and delete which is why I have never understood the need for a 1TB HDD.

If you record a lot of HD, then 1TB is really handy

Plus you may want to record a series and watch it at a later date, possibly in HD.

carlwaring · 12-05-2011, 11:35

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Originally Posted by mersey70

Unusually I agree with you, most people watch and delete which is why I have never understood the need for a 1TB HDD.

Well it was the only one available at the time... so it was that or nothing

I could ask them to swap it for the new 500GB model but it's really not worth the hassle!

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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

If you record a lot of HD, then 1TB is really handy

Plus you may want to record a series and watch it at a later date, possibly in HD.

This is true.

Andy1 · 12-05-2011, 13:42

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Originally Posted by alwaysabear

Thanks, it was just a question , nothing sinister.

I would make use of an edit feature actually - I make the odd TV appearance every now and again and my massive ego requires me to save them for posterity.

It would be handy to keep just the section of the programme I was on rather than the whole thing.

I can see there would not be a widespread demand for the feature though.

Bob · 12-05-2011, 13:46

Assuming alwaysabear doesn't realise that you can't archive in the same way as V+, maybe he was wondering you could edit out adverts and the like before doing so?

passingbat · 12-05-2011, 13:49

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Originally Posted by Andy1

I would make use of an edit feature actually - I make the odd TV appearance every now and again and my massive ego requires me to save them for posterity.

It would be handy to keep just the section of the programme I was on rather than the whole thing.

I can see there would not be a widespread demand for the feature though.

I would have thought you wanted to keep a copy of those, so you could edit the copied version.

shows I copied from V+, I copied to a HDD/DVD recorder's hard drive, edited out the adds and then copied to DVD.

Doz007 · 12-05-2011, 13:54

How many reboots are people having?

I've had 3 reboots and several lock ups in the past week. I'm assuming this isn't normal?

DaBoz · 12-05-2011, 14:05

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Originally Posted by mersey70

Unusually I agree with you, most people watch and delete which is why I have never understood the need for a 1TB HDD.

Families tend not to delete if shows watched at different times. And kids are a different story altogether, as they love watching the same crap over and over. I can't delete the 55 spongebobs on my TiVo as littlun wants all of them.

But 1TB over 500Mb... not sure even with our family usage we'd need that.

Boz

Stephen · 12-05-2011, 14:10

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Originally Posted by mersey70

Unusually I agree with you, most people watch and delete which is why I have never understood the need for a 1TB HDD.

I don't always have the time to watch my recordings, so they can build up for a few weeks. So I can sometimes end up with a few episodes of a series to watch or a few series building up so the space comes in handy.