TiVo : General TiVo Discussion Part 3

[Mobes]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Ha, ha! The TIVO is still a big improvement over the other boxes available IMO. It's only the speed that is the problem, but the advantages outweigh this little disadvantage.

I don't get the speed issue with TIVO. Channel changes are pretty quick and so if getting to your recorded shows. The only time i ever find it a bit slow is On demand stuff which I don't often use.

Maybe im lucky... or not overly picky lol

BTW although not in Luton I'm an LU postcode...any news on when I'll get the update?

[Meng]

I still hate the default recording settings. My defaults are 5 minutes prior and 10 minutes after, but it won't let me set that as default.

1 minute before and 4 minutes after is useless for certain channels.

[Gavin-D]

Got the new update and its much easier on the eyes now everything seems quicker as well

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

Updated today...

Most of Barnsley (Barnsley, Bradford, Castleford, Doncaster, Halifax, Wakefield)
Bristol
Glasgow (now includes Irvine)
Peterborough
Teesside

How big is the Barnsley area SP?

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by devilincarnate

How big is the Barnsley area SP?

Big! All the places named above, plus Sheffield and Rotherham.

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

Big! All the places named above, plus Sheffield and Rotherham.

I know this is off topic, but which local TV channel will get leeds or Sheffield?

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by devilincarnate

I know this is off topic, but which local TV channel will get leeds or Sheffield?

That's the subject of much debate. I think Sheffield and Rotherham will get Sheffield; Leeds and Kirklees will get Leeds. The rest of Yorkshire is TBD.

Originally Posted by spiderplant

That's the subject of much debate. I think Sheffield and Rotherham will get Sheffield; Leeds and Kirklees will get Leeds. The rest of Yorkshire is TBD.

Ideally, all of the South Yorkshire areas should get Sheffield as the official DTT coverage area will also overlap with parts of VM Barnsley & Doncaster areas. Similarly, I would have thought that most, if not all, of the West Yorkshire VM areas should get the Leeds service. West Yorkshire being more difficult in that other local services are planned.

[anap]

Got the update today. Looks much better but why have they still not fixed the 'Video Output' settings!

Originally Posted by spiderplant

Big! All the places named above, plus Sheffield and Rotherham.

Interesting that the former Telewest Barnsley area is now being upgraded with former NTL areas in West Yorkshire rather than the traditional Telewest neighbouring areas of Sheffield and Rotherham. I guess that's to ease the load on the local tech. teams dealing with problematic upgrades.

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Originally Posted by jobbie8

The high contrast progress bar is still the old shape with the rounded edges and looks slightly better than the new purple one with red progress line.

The design is better and it isn't lilac, which has to be a plus. Sadly the rest of the high contrast pages are a little too black for many people.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by jj20x

Interesting that the former Telewest Barnsley area is now being upgraded with former NTL areas in West Yorkshire rather than the traditional Telewest neighbouring areas of Sheffield and Rotherham. I guess that's to ease the load on the local tech. teams dealing with problematic upgrades.

There are no seperate NTL or Telewest areas now.

[Aguero9320]

When is Manchester being given the new TiVo update? We still have the dated red EPG on our box.

[anap]

Originally Posted by Aguero9320

When is Manchester being given the new TiVo update? We still have the dated red EPG on our box.

30mins before half an hour after it's done! In other words no one can say at the moment.

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by anap

but why have they still not fixed the 'Video Output' settings!

Fixed in what way?

edit: Ah - I've just found your identical post from a year ago. You want passthrough. Fair point.

Originally Posted by Aguero9320

When is Manchester being given the new TiVo update? We still have the dated red EPG on our box.

Everywhere should be done before Christmas.

[anap]

Originally Posted by spiderplant

Fixed in what way?

Like the info screen suggests! If you want to upscale everything then you can or if you want the original resolution then that is possible also. At present I'm forced to upscale all SD content.