Gadget Show last night..

[Druchii]

Originally Posted by MonTheFish

Tivo for the win!!!!

If you want an example of a usable EPG system and UI look no further....years ahead of its time and a hundred times more stable than my 'New' V+ box. Since I moved the TIVO upstairs to the kids room its never re-booted, frooze, or missed a program in the last 4 months....pity the same cant be said of the V+ box...it's failed to record so mainy times I've lost count, the EPG and what the paper says sometimes dont match and I need to check what the Tivo says is on, its rebooted at least 5 times that I know of while I was in the middle of watching something...and the wife has had to stop me a few times from throwing it through the window :p....3 tuners and each week it refuses to record a program at 9pm even although there is nothing else scheduled to record at that time....bugy piece of crap if u ask me..

Rant over...normal viewing will now resume...unless u have a V+ box..... :P

How on earth are you getting the TiVo to work with VM's network?

[MonTheFish]

Originally Posted by Druchii

How on earth are you getting the TiVo to work with VM's network?

I kept the other box for 5 quid a month. Tivo works just fine with it and has done for the last 5 years ...it has an IR wand to change channels on the box.

Use RF to pipe it around the house and an IR sender to control it from downstairs as I prefer it to the V+.

Its just a pity it doesn't do HD or I wouldn't have bothered with V+

[ShadowTD]

Well I'd say you've got a dodgy V+. We have several series links for recordings, use the box every evening for 2+ hours, pause live TV, use OD etc. The last reboot was 2 weeks ago because the clock was out. Prior to that it was about a month.

Having said all that, I was on the TiVO launch team for Comet when it came out. And you're quite right - there's still nothing to touch it in terms of usability.

[harmitage]

One of the main things I like about V+ compared to $ky+ is the on screen picture when browsing the EPG.

Although I see that as a major advantage, is it not also one of the things that slows channel hopping down?

[handyman]

Back to the Gadget show, that special they did with buying x amount of gadgets for a grand was laughable.

Please note that all prices supplied are 'best prices' as found by The Gadget Show research team at the time of production.

£452 a good price for a 32" Telly.

£317.19 32" samsung panel

[ShadowTD]

I wouldn't choose that Aria set for my main TV. £450 is a reasonable price for a branded set. And don't get me started on Aria as a company. Clowns.

[awesometeeth]

im now in a non virgin street (well unless you live from house 1-100 then your cabled up, the rest arent!).

I have sky+ and i kinda miss my V+. Sure the channel changing is slower, but the extra tuner and the info on later shows is something i miss. I also recall that my V+ would not record repeats of gamertv on the sat show, but sky+ does. also, unless im dumb, sky+ just orders all your progs in one list, V+ allowed you to sort by show etc. so i could easily see all my countdown recordings in one go

i miss virgin, I hate having to have a BT line for DSL which is super slow compared to my old speed and im so tired of all the junk on sky channels, the fake boobs out chat girls are just beyond a joke now.

anyway, V+ over Sky+ for me

[arcamalpha2004]

Originally Posted by Fred_Smith

Well as it is such a problem, why don't they force there suppliers to supply better software on the boxes instead of leaving it as it is...

When they got the first V+ boxes to test in-house I would have thought they would have noticed the issues right away and got the suppliers to change the software / hardware configuration to work properly!

A lot is driven by cost.
VM seem to have settled for what they see as cost effective, customer satisfaction seems to come second.
Buy a £50 CD Player you get a £50 sound performance, however spend some extra money, that can buy better components and that reaps sonic improvements.
I would have thought that VM told their " supplier (s) " the specifications they wanted, and the supplier(s) would have informed VM of the cost.

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Originally Posted by zinglebarb

probably the all mighty pound stopping it. VM will most likely have given the job to the lowest bidder rather than the better coder

Precisely Zing