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scgf · 19-06-2011, 11:15

. . . something Microsoft would market after taking over a company producing a good product, only to ruin it in implementation.

Since I rejected my VM TiVo I have seen my decision vindicated many times over, in spite of feeling shouted down in these and other forums.

I am trying to put my finger on what is wrong with it, apart from the obvious like dire SD picture quality and confusing UI. I think I have worked it out. It is to do with the way I think and what I perceive as being logical. My computing experience has been OS/2, Linux, Mac OS X with a small amount of Microsoft Windows along the way. I now work with Windows, unfortunately, but don't see MS Windows as part of my personal computing evolution - I have always seen it as an aberration.

Those of you old enough to have experience os OS/2 will know what I mean.

The TiVo is like something which would come out of the MS stables - great idea but badly implemented.

19-06-2011, 11:15	#1
scgf Inactive Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Market Harborough Services: Freeview HD, TNTSat (France), Apple TV Posts: 42	VM TiVo is like . . . . . . something Microsoft would market after taking over a company producing a good product, only to ruin it in implementation. Since I rejected my VM TiVo I have seen my decision vindicated many times over, in spite of feeling shouted down in these and other forums. I am trying to put my finger on what is wrong with it, apart from the obvious like dire SD picture quality and confusing UI. I think I have worked it out. It is to do with the way I think and what I perceive as being logical. My computing experience has been OS/2, Linux, Mac OS X with a small amount of Microsoft Windows along the way. I now work with Windows, unfortunately, but don't see MS Windows as part of my personal computing evolution - I have always seen it as an aberration. Those of you old enough to have experience os OS/2 will know what I mean. The TiVo is like something which would come out of the MS stables - great idea but badly implemented.