TiVo

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by ntl.wotcha

I mean surely the people who are going to sign up to this initially will be the people who have large HD screens and are going to want the HD channels at the start of the EPG.

If that's not possible for some strange contractual reasons can we somehow have a filter on the EPG so we can filter out SD ?

Now we have BBC1 HD, BBC HD, ITV HD, C4HD and Five HD it really is a bit of a wind up expecting us to dig through the epg for them.

It will have Favourites as do all Vboxes so you put them in to their and when you press the button there they are.

[Stephen]

Well, not that I know anything but I think you will be able to set your favourites the same as you can at the moment, but there is a feature of the mini guide where you can set it to only display your favourites or a set of channels, ie sport or children's. But if you flick up or down using the channel change buttons it will go to the next channel regardless.

[muppetman11]

http://www.macgasm.net/2011/01/18/ti...d-application/

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by ntl.wotcha

I mean surely the people who are going to sign up to this initially will be the people who have large HD screens and are going to want the HD channels at the start of the EPG.

If that's not possible for some strange contractual reasons can we somehow have a filter on the EPG so we can filter out SD ?

Now we have BBC1 HD, BBC HD, ITV HD, C4HD and Five HD it really is a bit of a wind up expecting us to dig through the epg for them.

Just use Favourites, surely?

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

Just use Favourites, surely?

3 out of 3 for using favourites then the easy and obvious solution which even my wife managed to work out on our V+ box.

[devilincarnate]

Hey thanks DF and MASQUE that is what i was doing wrong

[Hiroki]

Really fancy getting a tivo (after getting an old one off ebay) just not sure if I will be able to have one since they can't even get the V+ box to work correctly where I live grr

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by Hiroki

Really fancy getting a tivo (after getting an old one off ebay) just not sure if I will be able to have one since they can't even get the V+ box to work correctly where I live grr

what happens with V+?

[Hiroki]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

what happens with V+?

Had 4 maybe 5 attempts to install/run them but they freeze/pixilate and then crash or don't record or reboot. Had 2 (maybe 3) repulls had some network bloke out to change stuff and in the end they told me to stick with the vhd box.

Really like the idea of a tivo tho

[jb66]

I just found out the VHD is not fully compatible with tivo afterall. A new box will be made so it can be connected via ethernet. This means you can watch whats on the tivo box on a regular box elsewere.

[Digital Fanatic]

Originally Posted by Hiroki

Had 4 maybe 5 attempts to install/run them but they freeze/pixilate and then crash or don't record or reboot. Had 2 (maybe 3) repulls had some network bloke out to change stuff and in the end they told me to stick with the vhd box.

Really like the idea of a tivo tho

TiVo won't work for you then.

Did the engineer say why it can't be rectified for you? Are you far away from the service cab?

[Hiroki]

Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic

TiVo won't work for you then.

Did the engineer say why it can't be rectified for you? Are you far away from the service cab?

I was connected to something incorrectly originally which was a fair distance away and then they came and connected me to the thing outside my door and still no luck. They just gave up in the end without any reason

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle

Not if you're doing it right. You have a general routine for tuning and processing the signals regardless of whether it is for viewing or recording. Then you have a module to handle viewing and a module for recording. Each of these should be re-usable code so that you could:-

• view multiple channels on each of the outputs (SCART, HDMI, RF, component etc. as applicable)
• view one channel as a picture-in-picture of another channel or the guide (which is just another video source anyway)
• record multiple channels

Those are all the easy bits, no matter however many tuners and decoders you've got. The difficult thing about multi-tuner PVRs is dealing with recording clashes. Three tuners are much harder than two.

Originally Posted by Felim_Doyle

Some of the recent software changes for the search functionality, for example, don't seem to follow the principle of "reduce, reuse, recycle". The remote control handling routines seem to have been re-written and are not consistent with the behaviour of the remote elsewhere. It's not like there's oodles of spare memory to waste in some of the older boxes, so it's a bad thing in more than one way.

That's because Search is loaded off a server. It can't access the functions built into the EPG. The upside is all the memory can be freed once you've finished with Search.

[royaltiger]

Just out of curiousity do american tivo's have a 3rd tuner installed but not enabled or just two tuners, if 3 tuners do you think they will get an upgrade when we do, if only two tuners I'm surprised they dont upgrade to 3 as so called market leaders in the world of tv.

[devilincarnate]

Originally Posted by royaltiger

Just out of curiousity do american tivo's have a 3rd tuner installed but not enabled or just two tuners, if 3 tuners do you think they will get an upgrade when we do, if only two tuners I'm surprised they dont upgrade to 3 as so called market leaders in the world of tv.

I do believe that it only has 2 tuners in the USA, but now that they have written a program for a box with 3 tuners they may add that to when they fetch a new box out