TiVo : My experience with Tivo

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by m0j00

Mines only 12% full and its quite sluggish.What i cant understand is how comes the TV guide is so fast, paging down in an instant.But my shows,tv on demand,music on demand and everything else takes forever to page down through stuff displaying red rings all the time.

Possibly because whilst the former is all local (ie on your Tivo) the latter (ie OD stuff, etc.) is delivered down the cable from VM.

My tivo is on 31% and I've got six pages of shows and over one hundred recordings (in folders) and the my shows isn't particularly slow. Usually I see the red circle for a second or two but I just tried and there was about a 4-5 second delay to bring the first page up and no red circle. Once the menu is up it is reasonably fast to go from one page to another. I videod the process if anyone is interested.
My point is that in my case anyway, filling the drive up doesn't slow the tivo down and on the community forum it has been stated that it's not a known issue although slow ondemand menus is (though unrelated to how full the drive is).
I should add that my shows is probably the slowest menu on my tivo. Hopefully with further updates that will get faster to although that remains to be seen.

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by scgf

VM has admitted there is a real issue with the SD picture quality, not a subjective one. Fortunately it looks as if it can be solved in a future firmware release.

Too late for me, but good news for those who have the poor picture quality issue.

We've found a problem for some customers, yes. It only seems to affect a select amount and the majority are more than happy with picture quality on SD channels.

[Perfect Choice]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

We've found a problem for some customers, yes. It only seems to affect a select amount and the majority are more than happy with picture quality on SD channels.

Agreed, but likewise there is a sizeable minority who have been affected and for some it has been so bad in their view to return Tivo boxes, which is bad PR for VM. The sooner it is fixed the better.

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by Perfect Choice

Agreed, but likewise there is a sizeable minority who have been affected and for some it has been so bad in their view to return Tivo boxes, which is bad PR for VM. The sooner it is fixed the better.

VM took the feedback seriously and investigated it. The outcome is there is an issue for some and that will be fixed.

[DaBoz]

The important thing is that people who know what they're looking at didn't give up and accept that PQ is subjective, and pushed their opinion until some bright spark realised how to measure the problem and report it in full detail.

Sometimes it's easy to think you're the only one seeing a problem and just give up. My family couldn't see an issue, but for me it was plain as day.

[clinteastman]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

We've found a problem for some customers, yes. It only seems to affect a select amount and the majority are more than happy with picture quality on SD channels.

When you say it's a problem for some customers do you mean that not all boxes are affected or that not all customers notice the problem?

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by clinteastman

When you say it's a problem for some customers do you mean that not all boxes are affected or that not all customers notice the problem?

Yes

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by clinteastman

When you say it's a problem for some customers do you mean that not all boxes are affected or that not all customers notice the problem?

Well, if you don't notice it, then it's not a problem I guess. All customers should see improvements once the fix is in place.

Personally never saw any problems on my Sony Bravia TV.

[clinteastman]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

Well, if you don't notice it, then it's not a problem I guess. All customers should see improvements once the fix is in place.

Personally never saw any problems on my Sony Bravia TV.

Right that's what I thought. Thanks

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

Well, if you don't notice it, then it's not a problem I guess. All customers should see improvements once the fix is in place.

The problem is, you can't rely on opinion. Many people buy a TV from a shop and leave it on the default colour settings. Usually, that defaults to something like 'Vivid' so that it looks good under shop lighting conditions. They leave it on that and think it looks wonderfull under normal lighting conditions.

I'm glad they've found a specific fault rather than relying on subjective opinion.

[Toto]

My general experience with TiVo is great!

Don't like the fact that the info button doesn't work on the three channel preview, but no biggy.

My box is currently at 37% full (1TB), the red circle comes up now and then, but its generally pretty responsive.

I'd like to be able to delete a whole folder rather than all the programs in the folder if I want to, and maybe that will come in time.

Picture quality is great in both SD and HD....and now I get proper dolby surround sound in HD through my AV kit, awesome.

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by Toto

I'd like to be able to delete a whole folder rather than all the programs in the folder if I want to, and maybe that will come in time.

You can do so right now. Just press "clear" (bottom left) on the folder itself (Is is just me or is that not completely obvious? )

However, be aware that this does compeltely destroy the folder structure which cannot be un-deleted so you will find only the individual programmes in the 'recently deleted' folder

[Perfect Choice]

Originally Posted by passingbat

The problem is, you can't rely on opinion. Many people buy a TV from a shop and leave it on the default colour settings. Usually, that defaults to something like 'Vivid' so that it looks good under shop lighting conditions. They leave it on that and think it looks wonderfull under normal lighting conditions.

I'm glad they've found a specific fault rather than relying on subjective opinion.

The difference with the Tivo implementation was that the vast majority of new customers already had their TV and a V+, so either the V+ was so good at upscaling the SD picture so that default settings didn't really matter (give the V+ credit for that as it was a great box for PQ for me), or there was a problem with the Tivo output which for some could clearly be seen as soon as the V+ was swapped out for a Tivo.

I noticed it immediately the Tivo picture appeared (I have a Sony KDL40HX803 TV with settings changed to optimise PQ to my liking), others never saw an issue versus the PQ they had before.

At least there is a fix coming now so we can move on to feature enhancements to Tivo but feel VM need to look at there pre-release testing as it is strange this did not get noticed by at least some of the initial testing team.

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Originally Posted by carlwaring

You can do so right now. Just press "clear" (bottom left) on the folder itself (Is is just me or is that not completely obvious? )

However, be aware that this does compeltely destroy the folder structure which cannot be un-deleted so you will find only the individual programmes in the 'recently deleted' folder

And now we just need the equivalent feature for the recently deleted folder to clear it out for those of us who are paranoid in keeping things tidy!

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by Perfect Choice

And now we just need the equivalent feature for the recently deleted folder to clear it out for those of us who are paranoid in keeping things tidy!

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