TiVo speed - not good enough?
01-09-2011, 13:24
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
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Originally Posted by Hugh
what do you mean by "slight", please?
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Try it yourself.
Watch some TV. Press 'My Shows' or 'Home'. It doesn't appear instantly. Quickly yes, instantly no. It is the case with almost all PVRs - but it shouldn't be in 2011.
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01-09-2011, 13:32
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
I would say around 4 seconds before the My Shows menu appears for my Tivo. Slower than V+ I had.
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01-09-2011, 13:55
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
to be fair TiVo is doing a hell of a lot more than Sky+HD or V+HD boxes, so you can't expect everything in a instant... It's pulling information from everywhere.
I've had a play around with a Sky+HD box at my sisters and I wouldn't say it was instant either. It's generally fast and nice looking, but fairly basic compared with TiVo in features.
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01-09-2011, 14:11
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
to be fair TiVo is doing a hell of a lot more than Sky+HD or V+HD boxes, so you can't expect everything in a instant... It's pulling information from everywhere.
I've had a play around with a Sky+HD box at my sisters and I wouldn't say it was instant either. It's generally fast and nice looking, but fairly basic compared with TiVo in features.
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You may Sky HD is basic but at least it does the basics well,unlike IMO TiVo,which failed to live up to its reputation and hype,and as far as I can tell it continues to disappoint a lot of customers.
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01-09-2011, 14:21
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
to be fair TiVo is doing a hell of a lot more than Sky+HD or V+HD boxes, so you can't expect everything in a instant... It's pulling information from everywhere.
I've had a play around with a Sky+HD box at my sisters and I wouldn't say it was instant either. It's generally fast and nice looking, but fairly basic compared with TiVo in features.
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l will second that.
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01-09-2011, 14:30
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
I have to agree with DF. However, I do hope the next update brings some kind of speed improvement. Overall, I'm happy with TiVo.
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01-09-2011, 14:33
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
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Originally Posted by robtuk06
Try it yourself.
Watch some TV. Press 'My Shows' or 'Home'. It doesn't appear instantly. Quickly yes, instantly no. It is the case with almost all PVRs - but it shouldn't be in 2011.
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I have, and it takes a second or two.
"Slight" is subjective, which is why I asked - a second or two doesn't bother me, but to some people 0.5 of a second is too long. To have instant response would require, imho, all the info it gets from the network to be cached on the box, and then people would complain that it wasn't up to date... 
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01-09-2011, 14:38
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
Speed on my TiVo:
Live Tv > Guide 600ns
Guide page down 200ms
live TV > My Shows (fully populated, 77% used) 3.5s
My Shows page down (cold) 1.5s
My Shows page down (warm) 500ms
Live TV > Home 2.3s
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01-09-2011, 14:56
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
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Originally Posted by kop32
You may Sky HD is basic but at least it does the basics well,unlike IMO TiVo,which failed to live up to its reputation and hype,and as far as I can tell it continues to disappoint a lot of customers.
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There is a vocal minority that are having problems and post on the VM forum. If there was major issues i'm sure this forum would be flooded with complaints.
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01-09-2011, 19:15
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
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Originally Posted by Perfect Choice
I would say around 4 seconds before the My Shows menu appears for my Tivo. Slower than V+ I had.
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7 seconds here.
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
to be fair TiVo is doing a hell of a lot more than Sky+HD or V+HD boxes, so you can't expect everything in a instant... It's pulling information from everywhere.
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It wouldn't have to (so often) if data like images were cached.
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Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
There is a vocal minority that are having problems and post on the VM forum. If there was major issues i'm sure this forum would be flooded with complaints.
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Its not just on the VM forum, there's threads on DS and comments on Twitter about the performance (or lack of). Lack of speed has also been mentioned in several reviews (including Trusted Reviews and CNET).
In my experience, my TiVo was dog slow at around 70% capacity. Its speeded up a tad since then, probably because I've deleted loads of stuff and I'm at around 53%. Most people seem to report that the more you've recorded, the slower TiVo is. I'd hate to see the performance at 99% recording capacity.
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01-09-2011, 19:20
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
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Originally Posted by HDFootyMan
In my experience, my TiVo was dog slow at around 70% capacity. Its speeded up a tad since then, probably because I've deleted loads of stuff and I'm at around 53%. Most people seem to report that the more you've recorded, the slower TiVo is. I'd hate to see the performance at 99% recording capacity.
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In my case the amount recorded hasn't affected the speed of my box, in the past I have been as high as 86% with no slowdown.
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01-09-2011, 20:00
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
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Originally Posted by clinteastman
Speed on my TiVo:
Live Tv > Guide 600ns
Guide page down 200ms
live TV > My Shows (fully populated, 77% used) 3.5s
My Shows page down (cold) 1.5s
My Shows page down (warm) 500ms
Live TV > Home 2.3s
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You do really need to get out more mate 
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01-09-2011, 20:08
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
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Originally Posted by devilincarnate
You do really need to get out more mate |
Nothing wrong with being a Mathematician.
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01-09-2011, 20:16
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
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Originally Posted by clinteastman
Speed on my TiVo:
Live Tv > Guide 600ns
Guide page down 200ms
live TV > My Shows (fully populated, 77% used) 3.5s
My Shows page down (cold) 1.5s
My Shows page down (warm) 500ms
Live TV > Home 2.3s
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Any chance of you making a quick video of you using Tivo's menu? I will also supply a video of my Sky HD box so we can compare?
Its just if Tivo is as fast as you say it is then I may get one as the one in Telfords VM-Store is so slow they have stopped using it and they now use a v+ AGAIN.
Also I know someone with a Tivo an there is really slow. Infact if you can't provide a video I think I will video my friends. Just use your mobile phone to take the video.
I know from previous posts that your mobile phone can take video.
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01-09-2011, 20:17
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Re: TiVo speed - not good enough?
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Originally Posted by New to cable
Any chance of you making a quick video of you using Tivo's menu? I will also supply a video of my Sky HD box so we can compare?
Its just if Tivo is as fast as you say it is then I may get one as the one in Telfords VM-Store is so slow they have stopped using it and they now use a v+ AGAIN.
Also I know someone with a Tivo an there is really slow. Infact if you can't provide a video I think I will video my friends. Just use your mobile phone to take the video.
I know from previous posts that your mobile phone can take video.
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