Bye bye TiVo

[page3]

Series 1 support to be withdrawn on June 1.

Virgin media might have a shiny new tivo out, but it's only for those in a cable area.

RIP TiVo. 9+ years of trusty service and STILL nothing that works as well or offers as many features.

[mp3manager]

Yep...a sad day indeed.

Bought my TiVo at launch and had a monthly sub for a while but moved to lifetime.

10 years service and the only thing I have done is add a network card and upgrade the HD to 160gb then to the current 500Gb.

TiVo just pisses all over Sky+ for reliability and ease of use
What I'm really going to miss is the Suggestions and the advanced Wishlists.

S1 TiVo RIP



TiVo Slide animation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2aLtuPqp6s

Edited by mp3manager on Wednesday 16th February 05:30

[OldSkoolRS]

Sad that TIVO is going, but if it helps the Humax Fox-T2 Freeview HD recorder that I have does offer suggestions of other programs when you set up a recording, now has 'trailer record' (press the green button during a trailer to record the program/series) and after 3 months use I haven't had a missed recording yet. I've lost touch with what TIVO can do, so maybe there are things that the Humax can't do that TIVO can (ignorance may be bliss perhaps?).

[Nimbus]

bugger bugger bugger

I'm sure many of us who had noticed the 'new' tivo that Virgin announced were expecting this, but equally there must be many happy tivo users who are blissfully aware, because lets face it, how often do people check the messages part of tivo... it just works !

I'm a bit guttted, as my tivo works perfectly, and is still superior to anything else out there...

and I certainly dont want the virgin one, even tho I live in a cabled area..

I mean.. why would I want to shell out £500+ a year to virgin for a few extra crappy sky channels... freeview has more than enough for me

Hopefully, someone will figure out how we can get the guide data from another source, its been done in other countries before..

worth checking out the uk tivo forums to see what the future is, here.. http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/forumdisplay....

[Russ35]

Another unhappy TIVO user hear. I got mine when they were being sold off cheap when they pulled out of the UK. Upgraded the drives and put a network card in it.

Never had a problem with missed recordings, picks up new series without a problem and wishlists are brilliant. I've never had a computer based system that is so reliable. About the only time it reboots is when there is a power cut (although one of the TIVO web interface modules somebody wrote sometimes re-boots it)

Will need to hope that somebody comes up with a way to get the EPG from another source. The Aussie users who imported the UK Tivo's had a way and I believe the Scandinavians also.

I'm another one that lives in a non VM area, although I live about 200yrds over the border into St. Annes and could watch them laying the cables down the main road when they cabled up Blackpool.

[aclivity]

page3 said:

Virgin media might have a shiny new tivo out, but it's only for those in a cable area.

I believe plans are already afoot for a new non-cabled TiVo, but no dates have been suggested yet.

[Nimbus]

aclivity said:

page3 said:

Virgin media might have a shiny new tivo out, but it's only for those in a cable area.

I believe plans are already afoot for a new non-cabled TiVo, but no dates have been suggested yet.

Sadly, there have been those kind of rumours ever since Tivo originally left the UK.... so at least 6 years..

There's just no money in it for freeview recording, Virgin have only got into it so they have an equivalent to sky+.

We either have to hope the alternative epg works well enough, or stump up for a new freeview recorder..

I'm liking the look of the foxsat-hdr tho it doesnt have quite all the tivo functionality

[aclivity]

Nimbus said:

There's just no money in it for freeview recording, Virgin have only got into it so they have an equivalent to sky+.

Virgin already had an equivalent to Sky+, in many ways it was superior to the contemporary Sky+ boxes (more tuners, bigger hard drive at launch, first to have HD, for example). I would not expect the non-cable TiVo to be a freeview box, though ... think "IPTV" connected box.

[ShiggyBiggs]

Apart from here Ive never seen or heard anyone mention tivo apart from on American tv.