RE: [ukha_d] Tivo for £199 inc VAT and Next Day Delivery

["Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@xxxxxxx>]

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Tim.


-----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

Tim,

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.

K.





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