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Question for TiVo radio users.
View Poll Results: Would the removal of BBC radio services from the TiVo EPG bother you?
Yes 10 38.46%
No 14 53.85%
Other (please state in thread) 2 7.69%
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Old 28-02-2016, 18:29   #1
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Question for TiVo radio users.

Just found out that the BBC are developing a radio app for Smart TV's, with the eventual aim of this replacing the EPG radio services on satellite and Freeview.

Cable wasn't specifically mentioned, but I imagine that in the long term VM might go down the same route.

This will obviously be for TiVo customers only, but that might mean everybody by then!

Would this bother people?

I guess the one thing that could be a problem to some people would be losing the ability to record BBC radio content.

I'm not sure if this is more about modernising content delivery or a purely a cost cutting measure given the financial problems that the BBC currently have.

If it works and saves money, I can see the commercial sector following suit.
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Old 28-02-2016, 18:41   #2
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Re: Question for TiVo radio users.

Re recording radio programmes, the current BBC Radio app allows downloads of the programmes - a solution to the potential issue.
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Old 28-02-2016, 18:49   #3
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Re: Question for TiVo radio users.

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Re recording radio programmes, the current BBC Radio app allows downloads of the programmes - a solution to the potential issue.
If people can download programmes that may negate that problem for many users as I don't think that audio only will use up too much data for those limited in this area.

Is there a limit as to how long one can keep the download before it expires (in the same way that there is for TV downloads)?
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Old 28-02-2016, 20:44   #4
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Re: Question for TiVo radio users.

30 days, usually
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Old 29-02-2016, 05:03   #5
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Re: Question for TiVo radio users.

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30 days, usually
Ahhhh, that might be a problem for some people.

Perhaps not though, nobody seems too interested in TiVo on the radio!
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Re: Question for TiVo radio users.

Or radio on the Tivo
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Re: Question for TiVo radio users.

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Or radio on the Tivo
Yes
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Re: Question for TiVo radio users.

I like that Wishlists also pick up radio shows as well as TV shows.
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Re: Question for TiVo radio users.

^^^^^^
The same here .... I have a wishlist set up for the other half to record everything it detects with Rod Stewart on it, and on several occasions it has recorded a radio broadcast as well as a TV show
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Re: Question for TiVo radio users.

Given past experience of cr(apps) on Tivo, best left as it is. It'll only slow down access and make the poxy box even slower.
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Re: Question for TiVo radio users.

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I like that Wishlists also pick up radio shows as well as TV shows.
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^^^^^^
The same here .... I have a wishlist set up for the other half to record everything it detects with Rod Stewart on it, and on several occasions it has recorded a radio broadcast as well as a TV show
Never knew that this was the case with wishlists.

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Given past experience of cr(apps) on Tivo, best left as it is. It'll only slow down access and make the poxy box even slower.
That's a very good point actually, one that I hadn't considered.
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Old 29-02-2016, 17:42   #12
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Re: Question for TiVo radio users.

Surely this is an opportunity here to create an app (or reutilise exiting app such as tunein radio or equivalent world radio app like Apple TV has) would open up some valuable space
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Re: Question for TiVo radio users.

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Surely this is an opportunity here to create an app (or reutilise exiting app such as tunein radio or equivalent world radio app like Apple TV has) would open up some valuable space
This is a BBC only initiative, but yes, other radio apps would be useful too....providing it doesn't slow down the TiVo even more!
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