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ATM Tivo Tips and Tricks
The moles can't be the only household to succumb to Virgin's marketing before Christmas and get a Tivo box installed. The Virgin engineer duly came yesterday and apparently ours was not a difficult birth. Some can take all day to download and install software and firmware from tivo hq in the states (this was a 'phase 2' box apparently)
So there it is under the telly. We've cracked series record (hi The Killing 2, TOTP 1976) and whereas with ondemand you were basically looking backwards, with tivo you're looking forwards and marking stuff that's coming up.
And one annoyance - wit the old virgin box the beeb, itv, c4 were all stacked up on the one OD channel. Is it right that to find BBC programmes that have been broadcast you have to go to the separate iplayer app, whereas the others are on the main OD channel.
Over to you for tips, tricks and things to avoid.
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We used to have to stay in to see a special programme which we would then forget to watch.
Later, we had VCRs, which gave us the option of either forgetting to set them to record a programme, or remembering to set them and never watching the resulting tape.
Now we have Tivo, and Sky+, and Freeview Plus – magic boxes which mean we don’t even have to remember to record the programmes which we will end up never watching.
The motto of this new technology should be: Watching television – so you don’t have to.
Record programmes you don't like.....
.... and play them when you're out
You should be
able to find BBC programmes in the Catch Up / On Demand section among all the other channels (at least that's where they are on my VM Tivo).
I've had mine since May
and honestly, the best thing about it is the size of the hard drive (I got the 1TB) and the ability to record 3 programmes at once. Other than that it's a mixed bag, the Tivo does some things better, but the V+ did some things better.
Overall, I'm happy I got it.
There are loads of tips you need to learn, but the best place to find them is youtube. If you double click on this clip it will take you to a page with loads of others.