TiVo - Page 268

Digital Fanatic · 09-03-2011, 18:49

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Originally Posted by mersey70

DF on my dear mothers memory I was offered it at cost and I am not on VIP and never have been.

Honestly, I am many things but I doubt I could be accused of fibbing on my time on here.

I know and I believe you

I'm just trying to see how the poster got TiVo, if they say they never fell in to any of the groups mentioned.

mersey70 · 09-03-2011, 18:51

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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

I know and I believe you

I'm just trying to see how the poster got TiVo, if they say they fell in to any of the groups mentioned.

I have a theory it was because I am coming to the end of my first contract but as ever I could be totally wrong.

Digital Fanatic · 09-03-2011, 18:53

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Originally Posted by mersey70

I have a theory it was because I am coming to the end of my first contract but as ever I could be totally wrong.

seems a logical assumption though.

Kingofthedead4 · 09-03-2011, 18:54

Ok people, can we stop the witch hunt, if mersey70 has managed to get a TIVO then good for him, I am sure that he was not meant to get it before other people but we are all human and someone obviously did not read his request correctly.

I am happy to wait for TIVO in the knowledge I will receive it at some point over the next two months. We have all waited since December fpr TIVO, 2 more months for a fully operational TIVO is nothing.

mersey70 · 09-03-2011, 18:57

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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

seems a logical assumption though.

As I have previously said I do not for one moment believe there is not at least some science to the order people are called in. That might or even probably extends to the prize draw too.

Any business would be crazy to do otherwise when there's dosh involved and I don't think they are crazy given Tivo's importance to VM.

muppetman11 · 09-03-2011, 19:11

Not a happy chappy

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...d.php?t=466178

Digital Fanatic · 09-03-2011, 19:15

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

Not a happy chappy

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb...d.php?t=466178

Yeah, he's posted on here and our community forum too.

passingbat · 09-03-2011, 19:47

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Originally Posted by ntl.wotcha

September !?

Christ it can't take that long !

At least they could just set the default settings to pad a few minutes to the stop time. All they need to do is change 1 variable in the software. They could do it in the next release.

September ? That's crackers !

Because of the way tivo handles padding when two shows are recorded back to on different channels, on the same tuner, I don't want a default few minutes of padding automatically added to a recording. If tivo handled padding like the V+ box, that would be fine but it doesen't.

They really should make tivo handle it like the V+, but I doubt they will (hope I'm wrong). In the absence of that, any global padding should be optional, with user selectable times.

04mattystevo · 09-03-2011, 20:03

Will the tivo box ever be able to fast forward and rewind radio recordings or be able to pause live radio like the v+ could?

also when you stopped a recording on the v+ and went back into it there was an option to go to a user defined time is this coming to tivo or is it already there but i'm missing it?

got it installed yesterday as well and i'm very impressed had a few problems with it recording true blood though on fx hd as it will not record the friday episodes at 10 when i set it up to record a series link to record new showings

Andy C · 09-03-2011, 20:06

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

But the Sky one is available now , you seem to think that Sky and other companies will still have the same STB in another 10 years

But Sky will never be able to copy half the features in tivo, such as suggestions, thumb ratings and so on as tivo own the rights. Until they can also supply a decent speed, dedicated broadband line on the boxes for IPTV they will never catch VM for VOD. If they add another tuner then that means 3 cables coming in for the dish (each tuner needs its own feed), etc.

Messy...

BenMcr · 09-03-2011, 20:11

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

But the Sky one is available now , you seem to think that Sky and other companies will still have the same STB in another 10 years

I don't certainly, but your implication is that Virgin won't progress their STB in the next 10 years either

TiVo boxes run on Linux, which means they are upgradeable

muppetman11 · 09-03-2011, 20:21

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Originally Posted by BenMcr

I don't certainly, but your implication is that Virgin won't progress their STB in the next 10 years either

TiVo boxes run on Linux, which means they are upgradeable

I don't suggest anywhere that VM won't up their game.

Andy C · 09-03-2011, 20:36

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Originally Posted by ntl.wotcha

They called me up and charged me Â£149 and 3quid a month subscription.

And although I don't work for Tivo I have done a fair bit of software development and I can tell you changing the default padding option should be a 5 minute job. If it's not then there's something seriously wrong with the code. I could understand if they were going to do a more extensive rewrite of the code to allow users to set their own defaults, but to just change the default setting as it stands today should be trivial matter. It's just initialising the variable to another value.

I don't want forced padding thanks, especially 5 minutes. It takes 10 seconds or less to set options for a series link (and i'm tetraplegic with very limited finger movement), where's the hassle? Let see 3 minute end and 2 min start padding, select show, go to get series link... press right, right, down 4 times, right 2 times, down, right 3 times, OK, OK... done.

User configurable padding yes maybe, forced padding no ta.

mersey70 · 09-03-2011, 20:40

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Originally Posted by Kingofthedead4

Ok people, can we stop the witch hunt, if mersey70 has managed to get a TIVO then good for him, I am sure that he was not meant to get it before other people but we are all human and someone obviously did not read his request correctly.

I am happy to wait for TIVO in the knowledge I will receive it at some point over the next two months. We have all waited since December fpr TIVO, 2 more months for a fully operational TIVO is nothing.

Sorry if I confused you I didn't actually get Tivo, I merely got the call. And I also got an entry into the prize draw but maybe everyone on XL did.

I registered when the site went live I think but as I learned more about it I realised it wasn't really for me right now.

I must have missed the witch hunt!

Big-Ted · 09-03-2011, 20:49

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Originally Posted by mersey70

Sorry if I confused you I didn't actually get Tivo, I merely got the call. And I also got an entry into the prize draw but maybe everyone on XL did.

I registered when the site went live I think but as I learned more about it I realised it wasn't really for me right now.

I must have missed the witch hunt!

I think you were out stirring the cauldron with the rest of your coven