General : TV360 - pro and cons

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by japitts

That is a fair comparison, but on a couple of the points..
> Voice control. Indeed so. The V6 has one-key jumps between recordings & live TV, the TV360 has either voice-control or 7keys.

If you mean 7 key presses to get back to live TV, that is not correct. Just press the ‘TV’ button (next to the ‘Home’ button on the right of the remote) and you are there.

Originally Posted by japitts

> Automatic padding added to recordings. The V6 allows you to alter your padding defaults to what you choose. Two minutes before is one of the options.

So does the 360. The automatic padding is a good feature because most people don’t think to add padding and just moan that their recordings don’t always start from the beginning. So it is more user friendly. Obviously, you can choose to remove the padding if you don’t want it.

Originally Posted by japitts

> VOD moving to the next episode when one has finished. V6 has this, but presumably TV360 prompts you sooner hence the "immediately" comment.

OK, but to the best of my recollection, that wasn’t the case when I last used the TiVo software.

Originally Posted by japitts

> Restart live TV is a fair one - V6 will give you menu-driven access to alternate showings or VoD assets. A "different" approach.

Agreed.

Basically, if you are wedded to the additional features of the TiVo software, fair enough, stick with it. The reason I came in here was simply to say that for most people, this was not so critically important that a change to the 360 was a ‘downgrade’. It is different, that’s all, but the 360 does contain some up to date features that the V6 doesn’t have.

I get it that some of you like to mess around with the various settings and the technical aspects of the TiVo, but I think that most of the population out there subscribes for the content, not the geeky special features of the box.

[japitts]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

If you mean 7 key presses to get back to live TV, that is not correct. Just press the ‘TV’ button (next to the ‘Home’ button on the right of the remote) and you are there.

Out of interest, does the 360 have a similar option for going straight from live TV into recordings? That's where the 7 key press reference came from. Apologies for misleading there.

Totally agreed that the two platforms are "different" - hence going full-circle to the "upgrade" references being what I disagree with.

A few other posts back there was a query about live-restart and how it works. My understanding is that it's a link in with VoD/streaming apps in some way. Similar to the iPlayer but evidently made to work across other channels.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by japitts

Out of interest, does the 360 have a similar option for going straight from live TV into recordings? That's where the 7 key press reference came from. Apologies for misleading there.

Totally agreed that the two platforms are "different" - hence going full-circle to the "upgrade" references being what I disagree with.

It depends why you want to get to recordings. If you are watching a programme that you want to record, just press the button with the red circle on it above the play/pause button and you will get the option to record it.

If you want to go to your recordings to look at other recorded or planned recordings, yes, that requires seven button presses - once on the ‘Home’ button and then 5 right-arrow presses on the menu and then click once on recordings. But alternatively, you can just press the voice button and say “Recordings”.

No need to apologise, you didn’t set out to mislead.

[newapollo]

Old Boy, you can shorten it to 6 button presses if you want to use the long method instead of using voice control by scrolling left past the search button when going via the naviigational bar.
Also if you press Home and scroll down it takes 5 button presses (or 6 if there's a current PPV event)

[1701-e]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

* watching recordings when internet is not available - No
.

Actually you can watch individual recordings if the internet is down.
You just can't watch shows if more than one episode as the 360 can't 'see' the split of the series without the net connection.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by newapollo

Old Boy, you can shorten it to 6 button presses if you want to use the long method instead of using voice control by scrolling left past the search button when going via the naviigational bar.
Also if you press Home and scroll down it takes 5 button presses (or 6 if there's a current PPV event)

Good point!

[Itshim]

Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Restart means it goes back to the beginning of the programme* and pause, well, pauses it until you want it to start

Sorry , don't see what you are driving at, this can be done anyway, or I am missing something

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Itshim

Sorry , don't see what you are driving at, this can be done anyway, or I am missing something

It's a simple concept. You find a programme on the TV Guide and you find it's already half way through. You will see an option on the screen to 'Watch live or Watch from the start'.

So with a click of a button, you can see that programme from the beginning.

[Itshim]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

It's a simple concept. You find a programme on the TV Guide and you find it's already half way through. You will see an option on the screen to 'Watch live or Watch from the start'.

So with a click of a button, you can see that programme from the beginning.

OK get it. Never found this to a problem, can see the use for other people. For me so many ways to "find" a show if that desperate

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by Taf

The lad has his own Tivo in his room, the other is in the living room.

Without telling us, he accepted the "free upgrade to 360" option a few days ago, and today received 2 remotes. No mini-box or associated cables and power supply.

In the literature, it says that the software will be upgraded and set "in 5 days after receiving the pack".

Will this only affect his Tivo, or the family one too? Wiping out all recordings and series link settings (there are about 140 on the family box)?

It's probably too late for you now but it does appear possible to cancel the 360 downgrade if it hasn't happened yet. Below from the support forum:-

'We're sorry to hear that you're regretting your decision. If the upgrade hasn't yet been done then we may be able to get this cancelled. So we can check this for you, I will need to confirm some information with you to pass security. '

[Hom3r]

Originally Posted by Paul

I bought one that had 3D (in 2012).
Its not the reason I bought it though, it just came with it.

Same here, the 32" 3D TV was £500 as was the non 3D TV so I bought it, I did then have to buy a 3D Blu-ray player.

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A while back my 360 Mini displayed not connected to a network (it has a wired connection) twice I had to set up the wifi to get it working.


Then yesterday I trip the power and I got the message on my 360 Main, I turned it off and removed and reconnected the ethernet cable and it worked.