TiVo TIVO Update = Constant Crashes/Restarts - Page 2

jbrown_gtfc · 18-11-2011, 11:50

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Originally Posted by LincsGuy2005

What was his solution to the constant crashing problem?

My box is currently being formatted. If that fails, I'll get a replacement box. Either way I've lost 500Gb of recordings (mainly films for the children)

But who knows; even if I get a new box, it might all happen again when it tries to apply the update.

EDIT: The box seems fine after the reformat but how do I know if the update has been applied? Is there something new to look for in the menus for example?

paultrademark · 18-11-2011, 12:50

Home > Help & Settings > System Info > System Info > Software Version

That will tell you if its 15.1 or 15.2

Perfect Choice · 18-11-2011, 13:08

Had 15.2 installed on my 1TB Tivo (Nottingham), been running fine and distinctly faster.

jbrown_gtfc · 18-11-2011, 13:32

Update... my reformated box started to reboot itself again.

I now have a new box and have heard from the technician that Virgin can now flash a fix for this problem from their end so I've lost all my recordings for nothing.

Sirius · 18-11-2011, 13:44

Strange that i have one of the network managers in the office here who has just asked one of his engineers and they know nothing of this fault at all ????

Itshim · 18-11-2011, 15:06

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Originally Posted by Jameseh

If you see no benefit to 5x the storage, quick access to catchup, suggestions and the ability to record three shows at once (and soon share those recordings) then yeah.

Have to say I am NOT impressed with it. 5 x storage ( never filled the V+)
Catchup - never use it suggestions - RUBBISH ( all I have had so far is Eastenders - no idea why not a show we ever watch or for that the itv c4 or 5 versions
3 shows at once OK.

Simple tasks now complicated ( Stop recorded show partway & play later having watched a live show in the mean time). Set recording UGH . want to record a show on ONE Channel and only once. Set to new show only & about 4 came up on in the morning at the time we wanted and again in the early hours of the morning on three different channels.

The only thing stopping it going back is the saving on overall cost.
" Emperors new clothes comes to mind "

LincsGuy2005 · 18-11-2011, 15:22

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Originally Posted by jbrown_gtfc

... heard from the technician that Virgin can now flash a fix for this problem from their end so I've lost all my recordings for nothing.

I hope his colleague who is on the way to me now knows that as well!

gadge · 18-11-2011, 15:25

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Originally Posted by Itshim

Have to say I am NOT impressed with it. 5 x storage ( never filled the V+)
Catchup - never use it suggestions - RUBBISH ( all I have had so far is Eastenders - no idea why not a show we ever watch or for that the itv c4 or 5 versions
3 shows at once OK.

Simple tasks now complicated ( Stop recorded show partway & play later having watched a live show in the mean time). Set recording UGH . want to record a show on ONE Channel and only once. Set to new show only & about 4 came up on in the morning at the time we wanted and again in the early hours of the morning on three different channels.

The only thing stopping it going back is the saving on overall cost.
" Emperors new clothes comes to mind "

Are you giving thumbs up and down on your fav programmes as i have over 4 pages off suggestions.

Itshim · 18-11-2011, 15:35

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Originally Posted by gadge

Are you giving thumbs up and down on your fav programmes as i have over 4 pages off suggestions.

The answer is yes.
However the question is why a soap ?

That is something I never watch.

clinteastman · 18-11-2011, 16:10

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Originally Posted by Itshim

The answer is yes.
However the question is why a soap ?

That is something I never watch.

Did you give it 3 thumbs down?

muppetman11 · 18-11-2011, 16:16

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Originally Posted by Itshim

Have to say I am NOT impressed with it. 5 x storage ( never filled the V+)
Catchup - never use it suggestions - RUBBISH ( all I have had so far is Eastenders

Eastenders

can't think of anything worse.

LincsGuy2005 · 18-11-2011, 18:33

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Originally Posted by LincsGuy2005

I hope his colleague who is on the way to me now knows that as well!

Update: he didn't. I now have a new TiVo.

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Originally Posted by Jameseh

If you see no benefit to 5x the storage, quick access to catchup, suggestions and the ability to record three shows at once (and soon share those recordings) then yeah.

Yeah, I agree that three tuners and 5x the storage is great, but when there's no effective and easy way to dub the shows you want to keep for longer to DVD, or to store them on a PC hard drive, whenever there is a problem and the box needs reformatting or swapping, that advantage is wiped out in an instant. I lost over 250 hours of TV this afternoon.

I was using the iPlayer app on the new box to watch this week's Frozen Planet (which I had recorded on the old box but not been able to watch due to the rebooting) when a scheduled recording started. I was unceremonously dumped out of iPlayer to watch the recorded programme. When I went back into iPlayer (which takes long enough in itself), I then had to hunt around for the point up to which I had watched. Presumably the same dumping out of iPlayer would happen if a 'suggestion' was recorded on any tuner? Quick access to catchup maybe, but reliable viewing it aint.

I probably haven't given enough thumbs up to shows to make Suggestions viable; I have yet to find anything in there that I want to watch. I only have one TiVo so streaming between them is not something I am ever going to do.

TiVo is being marketed as a VM premier product. I feel like I have spent the last 8 months beta testing a product that was not fit to be released as an "upgrade" from the V+ box in the state it was when first introduced. With the 15.2 update it is getting closer but there are still some fairly glaring glitches and omissions such as the iPlayer dumping when recording starts, lack of reminders, no dub to DVD facility, inflexibility of recording padding, lack of Red Button functionality, etc.

Premier product? Naaaahhh.

passingbat · 18-11-2011, 21:45

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Originally Posted by LincsGuy2005

, no dub to DVD facility,
:

There is, via the scart socket, but you have to be playing the show whilst dubbing.

LincsGuy2005 · 19-11-2011, 16:25

Yes, but that is not as good as what the V+ provided, so I regard it as a retrograde step.

Henkesghost · 19-11-2011, 17:03

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Originally Posted by LincsGuy2005

Yes, but that is not as good as what the V+ provided, so I regard it as a retrograde step.

Wouldn't touch TiVo with a barge pole just now. In a year maybe but too many complaints and problems and omissions at this time. Pretty sure it will improve but really not at present.