RE: Re: Tivo vs ShowShifter - more fuel for the fire

["Phillip Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

> TiVo have reserved space on your hard drive for this stuff. 
> Enough to record at least 30 minutes at Best quality, whether 
> that's your default setting or not. This space is there on 
> your disk, but you aren't allowed to use it for your own 
> recordings. It's TiVo's! This time it was a cr*p sitcom. Next 
> time it may be adverts, or worse, Coronation Street. :-( You 
> can't delete it (without using backdoors). It stays on your 
> main menu for as long as TiVo decide to make it stay. If you 
> happen to like it, you can't even decide to keep it! It 
> ignores your suggestion settings, so even if you have 
> suggestions turned off and pause a program to go and make a 
> cup of tea, or whatever, it could have changed channel in 
> your absence to a program you hadn't set up and weren't 
> interested in. This particular recording contained strong 
> language from the start (there was even a warning about it on 
> BBC2 before the program), but this was available to view from 
> the main menu without parental controls. There's another 
> scheduled for this coming wednesday and that's unlikely to be 
> the last of it. I just want to be able to opt-out and I find 
> the whole thing very annoying indeed. This is IMHO *not* what 
> TiVo should be doing.

So instead of voicing it just here put together a structured discussion
email without being emotional, offensive or abusive and send it to
TiVo.

Myself I don't mind things like that happening as long as:

1) It doesn't interfere with what I'm watching through TiVo as
"live
TV".

2) It doesn't cause the deletion of any programs that have been
recorded
as part of the normal "ToDo" list or season passes or cause any
of those
same "ToDo" recordings or season passes not to be recorded.

3) It doesn't *HAVE* to be watched before it can be deleted.

4) Any programs with "unsuitable content" be locked - my six year
old
son can use the TiVo and if he is exposed to such programming (or the
posibility of such programming) then documentation and recordings will
be provided to my local M.P. about it.

Phil

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