TiVo : TiVo Update/Netflix

[Perfect Choice]

One power saving impact I belive is that the HD is not running all the time when in standby which was the case before. Saves more power of course, but the box then just needs a little time to get everything up an running again when you take it out of powersave.

[RobboEdin]

Originally Posted by kgollop

Question, I am sure on the old version of software when you searched for a program and went into episodes it would give you an episode guide from Season 1 episode 1. Did I imagine that? I am now only seeing episodes that are available

What you are seeing is improved information.

Across the update, information is highlit to show current availability.

In Episodes, you can click on Show ALL episodes and see the full list.

[kgollop]

Originally Posted by RobboEdin

What you are seeing is improved information.

Across the update, information is highlit to show current availability.

In Episodes, you can click on Show ALL episodes and see the full list.

Aha! I had missed the blue button option above. Agreed, another nice improvement

[Stokie_Craig]

I've just rung up virgin media again for the 6 months Netflix promo offer. this time i spoke to a nice lady who knew what i was talking about, shes had alot ringing up about it. i will have it 2moz i just gotta use my Virgin Media online account sign in to sign into Netflix, no mention off a code. she did say to me that i quality for it. Not got any loyalty discounts but i did have andthey expired lol .. Well i didnt know i had any :-p

[Martin_D]

Just got my 6 months Netflix promo offer too

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[Lostlam]

Originally Posted by Martin Dee 11

Just got my 6 months Netflix promo offer too

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What is the Netflix offer, as I was unaware of it?

[RobboEdin]

Originally Posted by kgollop

Aha! I had missed the blue button option above. Agreed, another nice improvement

I missed the obvious blue button route!

[Stokie_Craig]

Originally Posted by Lostlam

What is the Netflix offer, as I was unaware of it?

Here ...

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...er/m-p/2062006

[RobboEdin]

Originally Posted by Lostlam

What is the Netflix offer, as I was unaware of it?

See offer on this page:

http://store.virginmedia.com/digital...d/netflix.html

[Horizon]

Got new update in East London and as others have said, channel change is fasterr. YAh!!!! A cable box that actually changes channels in a half decent time, who'd thought it....

Why didn't they make all the screens HD though? Surely it wouldn't take that much effort.

The My Shows area is improved, but this still needs a proper redesign. Do we really need a blue button for groups so prominently? There's space on the bottom right of the screen and more info should be put there.

VM need to get away from the American way of doing tivo and code it to how we want it. In terms of features, VM's tivo is the best box in the UK. But in terms of useability, day-to-day use, Sky's is still so much easier and quicker.

[vincerooney]

Question - my friend has already had a Netflix trial last year. Can he now get a free month now it's on virgin media or not?

[andy_m]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Question - my friend has already had a Netflix trial last year. Can he now get a free month now it's on virgin media or not?

I signed up to Netflix when it first launched and then cancelled after the free month trial mainly because at the time it didn't have much content. I've signed up today with exactly the same email and card details and have entered another free month trial, even though they still had my account set up.

[harry_hitch]

Anyone had any codes via e-mail yet?

I know they will take 5 days to arrive, but I would be surprised if they have not started sending them out yet.

Saying that, I suppose they could be waiting for the roll-out to finish completely before sending the e-mails out.

[vincerooney]

Originally Posted by andy_m

I signed up to Netflix when it first launched and then cancelled after the free month trial mainly because at the time it didn't have much content. I've signed up today with exactly the same email and card details and have entered another free month trial, even though they still had my account set up.

Cheers friend

[zantarous]

Had a play with the new Tivo features and Tivo this evening, as mentioned earlier by me some of the menus change superfast but I did encounter some today where the screen goes blank and then the menu loads.

Also what is the 1080 pass through for, does this allow services like Netflix to display content in 1080P?

Also noticed that that the audio is in 5.1 Dolby Plus, it has been so long since I saw I looked at sound codecs is the only difference between Plus and regular DD the bitrate for the codec? Nice to see the HD audio light and D+ logo.

Quite impressed with the Netflix app and its streaming quality and they have a lot of stuff (even TV shows) in Super HD. A real worthwhile addition and VM should be congratulated for once they announced a product and it was here within a few months of the news breaking.

Edit:

Also love the fact that I can control the Netflix app with my phone, browse the catalogue while watching something and even use the on screen scrubber to go forward or back on the video I am watching.

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Not sure how they did it but they seem to have put a turbo boost in with this update the My Shows menu is so incredibly responsive now I was able to delete shows with ease instead of deleting a few and they it locking up or the cursor jumping back to the top of the screen.

I even managed to clear down the bedroom Tivo from the living room with the same speed and nice to see that they have made the remote Tivo screen HD as well.

And best of all you can now manage the series link within MyShows, I am pretty sure that wasn't there before as I have always had to come out of the My Show menu and go into Manage series links. Superb.