General TiVo Discussion Part 2
Please continue discussion of TiVo here please.
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PS. Sky Sports red button is useless to me, not a sports type. ;) |
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It's swings and roundabouts. Personally, I don't think the green or red button would be any use to me.
The few times a year I watch Sky Sports, it's generally for a major sporting events and happens in the company of friends at a local pub. As for the green button, I suppose that might be more useful, but TBH, I have season passes set on most of the series I watch regularly. The odd one off programme, I can either watch it or set it using the guide. OK, so the green button might save a few keypresses, but me finding a program is being shown, not watching and setting it to record is so rare that it really wouldn't save much time at all. |
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And why would it want to anyway if you cannot watch them. Genuine question as I cannot really see the point of that. Unless I have misunderstood you. |
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I have set several recordings based on the green button promo that I would probably never have noticed in the guide based on the synopsis. It was the video promo that sold it to me. |
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I don't know about Sky+, but Tivo is way better than V+ for series links. With V+, if a season took a break for a few weeks/months (common with Us shows), you'd probably have to set a new Series link when it returned --- another case of keeping an eye out for when it returns. With Tivo, once a series link is set, that's it and you can set if for new episodes only. I know there have been a few issues with the guide data, but they should get sorted.
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Yes it can. You can set up a wishlist with any words in it so you can add say the name of an actor or director or a show name like csi and it will record anything which match the criteria. That way you can make sure you don't miss the new primeval series that are on either watch or itv as first runs. Useful if you hear about a show that you think could be good but have no idea when it will broadcast here |
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Take for example, a show like Fringe; when it was first announced a couple of years ago, I knew I wanted to give it a try because it sounded interesting and was part created by JJ Abrams who, amongst other things, created Alias. It was a case of waiting to find out who would pick it up and when they would broadcast it ---- this information wasn't available until a few months after it had been announced. As I understand it, you would have been able to enter 'Fringe' into the tivo wishlist and when the tivo guide came across a programme called Fringe, it would automatically record it. Tivo 'remembered' several months later, when I would most likely would have forgotten about it. |
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Sky would put a show like Fringe on green button weeks before. Mersey may know is it all channels use the green remind me or just Skys own. I agree Passingbat the wishlist would pick the series up when it appeared on the EPG data automatically.
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