Re: TiVo - "forced" recording - the answers

["Dave Marley" <dave@xxxxxxx>]

> The next interesting bit of info is that even if you were able to
delete
> this program manually it would recover NO USER hard drive space. 
These
> suggestions are held on a reserved section of the disk outside the 40
hour
> capacity.  Apparently this reserved area also holds the old 1.5.2
version
of
> the software as well as a backup.

True, and this is the main argument that those people who support the
feature use. The fact remains, however, that at some stage TiVo reserved
a
section of the hard disk for these recordings . The TiVo software will
not
allow the user to record their own programs in that space, but TiVo
*could*
reallocate that space to the user if they decided to. It's a fairly
significant size too - at least big enough to hold 30 minutes of
programmes
at Best quality.

> Also, if you had another program scheduled to record during the
"forced"
> one, your one would be recorded instead.

Also true, but it will take precedence over any suggestions that would
normally record.




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