TiVo : General TiVo Discussion Part 3

[jobbie8]

I see a lot of the 'purple' ring on screen daily, though I rarely saw the 'red' ring.

Having a NowTV box and a Chromecast to use similar features/apps really does show how bad Tivo is at doing good the same thing.

[Media Boy UK]

Virgin Media launch Sky Movies on Android.

http://vmhd.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/s...n-android.html

[tassiekev]

Bit the bullet yesterday afternoon - went out to the garage, dusted off the old Sky+HD and scrambled about in the dust behind the AV unit (will clean when the light nights come ) and reconnected everything. Still worked, so I rang Sky and asked to be put on the Family Pack @ £33pm. OK says Sam, for an extra £5pm I can give you Movies & Sport all in HD, 12 month deal - thanks very much. Now looking forward to next July when I can call VM and say thanks, but no thanks.

Not just the slowness of the Tivo which caused this but it was the last straw. The other problems are not particularly Tivo related but EPG, lack of 5.1 On Demand and even lack of HD On Demand, none of which are problems with Sky. Happy to give specifics if required but I am aware this isn't the forum for those issues.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by paultrademark

Just took 2mins 02s to load up Netflix to be useable, below is link to the video.

http://youtu.be/DlXYMPlcsrA

Never used to take that long, perhaps a minute or more though.

Will try capture a few more of the TiVo screens, but going into Home > On Demand or Search & Discover has been pretty slow of late.

Reboot fixes it for a day or so, but then back to a good 4 or 5 seconds usually between screens.

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TV On Demand, this was just after a re-boot

http://youtu.be/65JDicERO1w

Time for a brew ?

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by paultrademark

Just took 2mins 02s to load up Netflix to be useable, below is link to the video.

http://youtu.be/DlXYMPlcsrA

Never used to take that long, perhaps a minute or more though.

Will try capture a few more of the TiVo screens, but going into Home > On Demand or Search & Discover has been pretty slow of late.

Reboot fixes it for a day or so, but then back to a good 4 or 5 seconds usually between screens.

---------- Post added at 01:07 ---------- Previous post was at 01:02 ----------

TV On Demand, this was just after a re-boot

http://youtu.be/65JDicERO1w

Just tried Netflix launch times on my devices:


Tivo 1 min 45 seconds (new Netflix UI)

LG Bluray 30 seconds (new Netflix UI)

WD TV 35 seconds (old Netflix UI)

I'm not finding the Tivo slow since the update on standard menus, but I don't use it as much as I used to these days, in case that would make a difference?

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Just tried Netflix launch times on my devices:


Tivo 1 min 45 seconds (new Netflix UI)

LG Bluray 30 seconds (new Netflix UI)

WD TV 35 seconds (old Netflix UI)

I'm not finding the Tivo slow since the update on standard menus, but I don't use it as much as I used to these days, in case that would make a difference?

Youview box (Humax) 1 min 10 secs

Playstation 4 19 seconds

Roku 3 25 seconds.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by vincerooney

Wow that sounds very cool. Anymore info on this?

I only know what i've posted, but a pakistani channel may launch in December according to MB, so perhaps it will be launched at the same time??

[paultrademark]

Yup tried it on the PS4 today too, loaded Netflix in around 20 secs.

[chrispy2000]

Now this may be just a coincidence but over the last few weeks I have noticed the colours looking all washed out. And no it's not the TV, I've used the built in tuner and the colours are more crisper.
Anyone else had this problem?

[Mad Max]

Originally Posted by jobbie8

I see a lot of the 'purple' ring daily, though I rarely saw the 'red' ring.

Depends on the type of curry you had mate...........

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Stop It

I think when the TiVo update went through it may have been a bit messy resolution wise. The text was quite thin and the purple wasn't as "plum" as pictured. Yesterday I turned the TiVo on and it was as the preview pictures and the Font was much clearer.

I checked the resolution settings and indeed it was on 1080i (I hadn't changed it) so am I dreaming or did it really change on it's own?

You're not dreaming. This is been reported occasionally ever since TiVo launched, but we've only just found out why it happens. Each time the TiVo reboots it checks the TV is compatible with the current resolution. But if the TV is turned off (as is usually the case when the software is updated) the check may not work properly, so the TiVo switches to a lower resolution.

Thanks all for the performance reports. Keep them coming.

[greeninferno]

Originally Posted by warrenb

Well with the price rise and the fact I could probably draw the menus on the screen faster than my Tivo, seriously considering dropping the TV for a Freeview box. Sorry virgin, but you have balked the Tivo box.

Last night it took over 30 seconds to start playing something in My Shows, I get the feeling it is checking everything against a server before doing anything.

seeing similar sorts of things, the worst and most irritating is the sound drop out going from tv guide back to viewing tv

after what 5 years? and its basically still a bug riddled slow mess of an operation.

ridiculous.

[johnathome]

Originally Posted by tassiekev

Bit the bullet yesterday afternoon - went out to the garage, dusted off the old Sky+HD and scrambled about in the dust behind the AV unit (will clean when the light nights come ) and reconnected everything. Still worked, so I rang Sky and asked to be put on the Family Pack @ £33pm. OK says Sam, for an extra £5pm I can give you Movies & Sport all in HD, 12 month deal - thanks very much. Now looking forward to next July when I can call VM and say thanks, but no thanks.

Not just the slowness of the Tivo which caused this but it was the last straw. The other problems are not particularly Tivo related but EPG, lack of 5.1 On Demand and even lack of HD On Demand, none of which are problems with Sky. Happy to give specifics if required but I am aware this isn't the forum for those issues.

So it's £38 for all TV?, apart from BT Sport?

Bit hard to turn that down. I need to stop being a loyal customer and flit between the two, you just get shafted otherwise.

[love Virgin2013]

Originally Posted by chrispy2000

Now this may be just a coincidence but over the last few weeks I have noticed the colours looking all washed out. And no it's not the TV, I've used the built in tuner and the colours are more crisper.
Anyone else had this problem?

I got the update 2 weeks ago and ever since the update the TV picture has been bad even in HD.

to me they have gone backwards with the update and made Tivo worse.

[andy_m]

Originally Posted by love Virgin2013

I got the update 2 weeks ago and ever since the update the TV picture has been bad even in HD.

to me they have gone backwards with the update and made Tivo worse.

I'm glad somebody else has said this. I watched a couple of things yesterday and was thinking the same. That said I watched something on Universal the otther day and it was excellent.