TiVo : General TiVo Discussion Part 2

[zekeisaszekedoes]

EPG takes at least 10-20 minutes to populate enough to go to any channel without that warning coming up, leave it for a bit and it'll be fine.

[IvorC]

Originally Posted by nstokes

its because the EPG hasnt downloaded the data yet so the box doesnt know about the channel, leave it for about 2 hours and once epg is complete it will be all ok

Many Thanks for the guidance.

[fixerman]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Why?

If I'm in the lounge listening to music, through good qality audio equipment, I don't want my PC on (to eliminate distracting fan noise) and I shouldn't have to use another device such as a phone, to supplement a badly designed app.

Why are VM staff defending an app that is so clearly lacking essential, routinely used features?

I think you are missing the point passingbat! The VM Spotify account allows you total flexibility as to how you listen to your music. I listen on my Surround Sound System, iPod, iPad and I listen in the car on my Galaxy S2.

I am, as you will see if you read my postings on the new You Tube app, extremely critical of poor technology. I believe the Spotify app is an indication as to how state of the art apps should be.

PS I have no connection with VM other than as a customer!

[gadge]

Originally Posted by fixerman

I think you are missing the point passingbat! The VM Spotify account allows you total flexibility as to how you listen to your music. I listen on my Surround Sound System, iPod, iPad and I listen in the car on my Galaxy S2.

I am, as you will see if you read my postings on the new You Tube app, extremely critical of poor technology. I believe the Spotify app is an indication as to how state of the art apps should be.

PS I have no connection with VM other than as a customer!

Well said fixerman this is where spotify comes in to its own we subbed to sonys quriocity service which was £10 a month but your only limited to sony devices now with spotify you have the freedom.Up to now we have spotify on all 3 tivos,my laptop and two blackberrys.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by denphone

Well l am not one of the VM staff and l am very happy with the app and l am quite hard to please but perhaps the problem is your expectations of things is far too high.

I find it amazing that you think that basic things such as search and shuffle is a too high an expectation of a music service

Someone has suggested that one of the best features of music services; playing tracks of associated artists is also missing (artist radio on Spotify). This is a great way of discovering you haven't heard before.

The question is, why couldn't these basic features have been included on the Tivo app?

[HD Boy]

This is surely lies.
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...ht/true#M33711

[zekeisaszekedoes]

Not necessarily. Look at VM's track record... some time after the Scientific Atlanta V+ HD box was rolled out the Samsung V+ HD box came along. A few months ago there was talk of a second Super Hub being made by a different supplier. Knowing VM's business practice, who is to say there won't be another VM TiVo made that improves upon the first like the Samsung V+ HD box did to the SA one?

[HD Boy]

Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes

Knowing VM's business practice, who is to say there won't be another VM TiVo made that improves upon the first like the Samsung V+ HD box did to the SA one?

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...ng/td-p/725339

[zekeisaszekedoes]

Originally Posted by HD Boy

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...ng/td-p/725339

Just because the chipset is the same doesn't mean it's exactly the same product. Companies revise their products all the time, so Mark I of a product might comparitively be quite primitive as compared to the Mark V or whatever. Case in point: PS3 and then PS3 Slim... same product, just tweaked to run cooler/quieter/better.

And anyway, if you already knew of both those threads going "this is surely lies" is tantamount to spamming to get attention, which I've walked right into.

[HD Boy]

Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes

Just because the chipset is the same doesn't mean it's exactly the same product. Companies revise their products all the time, so Mark I of a product might comparitively be quite primitive as compared to the Mark V or whatever. Case in point: PS3 and then PS3 Slim... same product, just tweaked to run cooler/quieter/better.

That is true.

I hope this does not turn out to be true

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by HD Boy

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...ng/td-p/725339

Not true in the slightest. The two TiVo boxes will perform exactly the same with the same or very similar chipsets in them.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Not true in the slightest. The two TiVo boxes will perform exactly the same with the same or very similar chipsets in them.

Well my parents was a CISCO box and I was really suprised by its speed , many had complained it was slow although to be fair there box had 15.2 straight off. All the menus were pretty nippy and so was the channel change , and the SD PQ impressed me, although i'd like to see the SD screens gone.

[nstokes]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Well my parents was a CISCO box and I was really suprised by its speed , many had complained it was slow although to be fair there box had 15.2 straight off.

15.2 has increased the box speed and im glad its faster

[HD Boy]

the ITV red button on tivo has " I am a Celebrity Vote" LOL

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When this Sky Sports Red button app comes out (by the end of march)

I hope we are able to record Match choice and Champions League (2012 - 2013 season) games somehow.

Originally Posted by HD Boy

When this Sky Sports Red button app comes out I hope we are able to record Match choice and Champions League games somehow.

No. The apps don't work in a way that a tuner can record it, just as you cannot record the red button on the older boxes.

Match Choice has an easy work around of just recording the showing overnight and I imagine the Champions League games are repeated as well.