TiVo

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Tell me another company what charges a subscriber a monthly fee for a PVR.

Sky do. You have to pay them a monthly subscription fee for their channels, which happens to include the Sky+ service if you have one.

Leave Sky, and unless you continue to pay them a fee, then the recording functions stop working

All that is different on Virgin is that they split out the fee seperately to the channel subscription.

[MickEP]

Hi All,
I have just had Tivo Installed Today, and I must say this is an impressive piece of kit.
Quick Question
On the ebay app, can you actually log in to your account, or is it just used for browsing ebay ?
Thanks
Mick

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Sky do. You have to pay them a monthly subscription fee for their channels, which happens to include the Sky+ service if you have one.

Leave Sky, and unless you continue to pay them a fee, then the recording functions stop working

Read my post properly , I said name a company what charges a subscriber.

[cozmic1988]

Originally Posted by mersey70

Someone on the VM forum said that OD trailers had appeared in his V+ planner, I have never noticed this and I suggested that maybe he has just recorded it by mistake but out of interest has anyone else noticed this?

May've just been sitting on channel 100 when he opened it

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Read my post properly , I said name a company what charges a subscriber.

I did read it properly, and again, it's Sky

All they've done is adjust their monthly fees for everyone to cover the costs for running Sky+

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by howardmicks

Thanks for that sounds like i will after risk programs without padding in that case,Was hoping it would cancel the padding and switch to next program like v+ box

As I said in an earlier post, I'm monitoing things recorded on V+ without padding because of tivo's padding methods, and so far, I've not had any problems.

Since this issue has come to light, I've been keeping an eye on programmes that V+ has had to remove padding from, and all have recoded with nothing missing. I'll keep monitoring, but ATM, I'm thinking of not adding any padding to recordings on TIVO (when I get it) as I think no padding would probably cause less problems. So, I don't want forced padding imposed on TIVO.

[Perfect Choice]

Originally Posted by pesty

Just spoken to a guy from virgin, he has the tivo box but said it's not worth having just yet as he's experiencing many niggling problems, and he agreed the SD channels aren't so good as the v+HD boxes. He reckons they have brought it out a tad too early and should have held off a few more months.

You can understand now why VM didn’t put Tivo on open sale yet, the last thing you want to release on new customer is a product with too many bugs. You can see why VM are doing the March patch update then before they get near new customers.

People purchasing Tivo now must realise it is new technology and more importantly software code and there will be a time period to clear up faults in code.

So buy now with your eyes open and expect a few niggles or wait a year until VM have cleared out most of the bugs, post September update would sound a good buy time for those who don’t want any hassle.

I am happy to put up with some faults as long as they are not too intrusive or you can manage around them, but looks like I will be one of those ordering online at the end of March now with delivery in April, so after the March update at least and 3rd tuner activated which is the only issue I am really concerned about short term.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

I did read it properly, and again, it's Sky

All they've done is adjust their monthly fees for everyone to cover the costs for running Sky+

Wrong 6 mix with Sky is 24.50
XL is 24.50

How's that different

[mersey70]

Originally Posted by MickEP

Hi All,
I have just had Tivo Installed Today, and I must say this is an impressive piece of kit.
Quick Question
On the ebay app, can you actually log in to your account, or is it just used for browsing ebay ?
Thanks
Mick

I have read that some people have reported problems logging into ebay on Tivo so that would suggest you can.

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Originally Posted by muppetman11

Wrong 6 mix with Sky is 24.50
XL is 24.50

How's that different

XL is £24.50 if you also take out a phone line at £12.99, £30.50 otherwise.

Of course VM also charge £5 for V+ if you are not on XL.

[nn012]

The Tivo app is browse-only at the moment so I don't see how 'people' are facing problems logging in.

[mersey70]

Originally Posted by nn012

The Tivo app is browse-only at the moment so I don't see how 'people' are facing problems logging in.

Maybe that is the problem they are having then!! (it was just something I recall seeing on a forum that's all).

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Wrong 6 mix with Sky is 24.50

But, to get non premium channels on sky, in HD, it's an extra 10 pounds per box

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Wrong 6 mix with Sky is 24.50
XL is 24.50

How's that different

So why did Sky charge for the PVR function for so long then. When Sky+ was introduced you had to pay £10 a month on top of the subcription fee 'just to record' as you put it.

[mersey70]

Originally Posted by passingbat

But, to get non premium channels on sky, in HD, it's an extra 10 pounds per box

£10.25!

It's horses for courses for me. Sky charge for HD but their phone service is absolutely miles cheaper than VM's.

Depends what your priorities are, as ever.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

So why did Sky charge for the PVR function for so long then. When Sky+ was introduced you had to pay £10 a month on top of the subcription fee 'just to record' as you put it.

exactly my point it was a newer concept then , now people take it for granted hence it being free to Sky subscribers.