TiVo : One major TiVo issue for me

[DaBoz]

Originally Posted by denphone

Lets hope these things come in the near future.

Unfortunately, without a timescale for all the niggles (and the list is quite long now), I can't justify waiting without these features indefinitely whilst paying more. So this Friday, the family are meeting to discuss whether to keep or go back to V+.

Boz

Obviously i would suspect the TiVo was trialled extensively before release,now it has been and features that people have come to expect from virgin media are not on the TiVo box i would love to see a copy of the "trialist" feedback.

The enlarged TiVo hard drive is to be welcomed no doubt.

But a lot of services people have come to expect from VM appear to be misssing.

[denphone]

Theres no way l will go back to my V plus as my primary box yes true tivo has a few things missing and a few niggles here and there but l am confident these will be sorted out sooner or later.

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by DaBoz

As a customer though, paying more for a box that has less features than the other cheaper box from the same provider is not what a customer would expect.

Regardless of the technical reasons behind it all, you would have to have carefully studied all the small print and tech specs to see that you would lose Music playlist skips, Red Button and Reminders. Maybe not even then.

For now

[tweetiepooh]

Maybe it would help to think of TiVo as being different. Somethings it has are new, some are done better. Somethings existing boxes do better and some are not present on the TiVo.

Whether the TiVo is better or worse would depend on you requirements.

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by denphone

Lets hope these things come in the near future.

They will They can't not, really.

[OLDGOLD]

Originally Posted by denphone

Lets hope these things come in the near future.

Originally Posted by carlwaring

They will They can't not, really.

Agreed. But I just hope VM's "near future" is within a few months and not 12+ months.

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by tweetiepooh

Maybe it would help to think of TiVo as being different. Somethings it has are new, some are done better. Somethings existing boxes do better and some are not present on the TiVo.

Whether the TiVo is better or worse would depend on you requirements.

This is very true as now there is no way that I would go back to the V+

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Originally Posted by OLDGOLD

Agreed. But I just hope VM's "near future" is within a few months and not 12+ months.

Who knows when they will come, But they will at some point (lets hope as you say not in 12 months).

[denphone]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

They will They can't not, really.

Yes l agree with you.

[jobbie8]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

That would be because the OD/Red Button aren't actually part of Tivo's features at all; basic or otherwise. They are Virgin Media features.

Not saying they shouldn't be there but that you are simply wrong in your reasoning.

Im not "simply wrong", I know you love TiVo and sing its praises, but I dont care about Tivo in the US and its lack of features. Virgin Media's "TiVo" should offer basic features that VirginMedia currently offer and then the TiVo features on top of that. Im a customer who uses certain services which are not available on TiVo, I was'nt made aware of this at the time of ordering and even now I'm getting used to TiVo as a family we are really missing the features we used on a daily basis. And on top of that I pay more for the lack of services! How does that figure??

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by jobbie8

Virgin Media's "TiVo" should offer basic features that VirginMedia currently offer..

And I am agreeing with you

[jobbie8]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

And I am agreeing with you

[denphone]

Originally Posted by jobbie8

Yes l agree with that 100 per cent.