RE: Tivo for £199 inc VAT and Next DayDelivery

[Stuart Poulton <swp@xxxxxxx>]

One thing that TIVO dosn't currently do, well not that I've seen is to
actually stop you recording certain programs.

see: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/24013.html

Also, has anyone been able to upgrade a sky+ box, I'm about to rip the
lid of my tivo, and give it 2x 120GB drives, and more memory.

I'm also, as TIVO are independant then your viewing data probably dosn't
get used subversivly, were as sky+ of course is run by sky.

Stuart



On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 13:44, Timothy Morris wrote:
> I'm yet to be convinced. I'd say that three or four times a week there
> are at least two programs on different channels I want to watch - and
I
> don't see how a tivo will get around that whereas a Sky+ box will.
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> There is a firmware update on the way which will allow simultaneous
> recording of more than one channel (I'm told it is theoretically
> possible to record the entire output of a single transponder, albeit
> limited to either horizontal or vertical polarisation).
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> Given that I don't actually own a terrestrial tuner - and prefer the
> 16:9 output of digital feeds on my plasma I still don't see what a
tivo
> will give me.
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> It seems to me to be an automated single channel timeshifter. Given
that
> most people I know use a Digibox as their single source of TV it has a
> huge limitation.
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> I do realise that its software is way in advance of that you get with
> Sky+, but in order to be of any real use in today's digital age it
> really does need to be able to record multiple channels - which it
> can't.
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> Tim.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennwatt@xxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: 25 February 2002 13:07
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Tivo for =A3199 inc VAT and Next Day Delivery
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> Tim,
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> The whole point of TiVo is that you don't watch off-air broadcasts; I
> haven't since shortly after it arrived! I find that programming
clashes
> on the stuff I watch are rare and that if it does happen that TiVo,
more
> often than not, it does pick up a repeat. However, as you rightly say
> normal terrestrial is the only flaw here, but then you could get that
> conflict on Sky+ as well as TiVo as I don't think you can record two
> channels at the one time on either. For the record, if I watch
> terrestrial it is usually a specific program and I watch it taped to
> VCR.
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> K.
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