RE: Re: Tivo / Sky+

["Kenneth Watt" <kwatt@xxxxxxx>]

> Tivo's user interface (or one particular part of it), is just about
> the *only* thing about Tivo that I dislike... - specifically its on-
> screen EPG is virtually unusable (as opposed to Sky's which is
> fantastically useable...)

Then what colour would you suggest for it? With any you are bound to have
issues if it's an overlay unless, like all Sky boxes, you use big clunky
boxes to display it in.

/me buys Mr Gordon some specs 'cause I sure ain't buying him a bigger
telly!
:P

> So one annoyance is that it is then incumbent on me to try to
> remember to go into Aux mode when using Sky's EPG (for the real-time
> response), and then to try to remember to switch back to Live-TV mode
> when a programme has been selected... I don't like it when technology
> forces me to adapt MY behaviour to IT...

TBH I *never* used AUX mode at all till John Sim pointed out that it
bypassed the compression one night to me, that's not really the point of
TiVo and I still to this day don't see the need for it, but then I was
perfectly happy with TiVo's EPG which I felt and still do feel is far and
away better than Sky's effort.

> One other thing about Tivo's EPG... There seems to be no way to have
> channels that ARE included in the "Channels I receive" list
but which
> will NOT be recorded from... The only way (AFAIK) to exclude a
> channel from being recorded is to not include it in the "Channels
I
> receive" list... But, - this has the consequence of not including
it
> in Tivo's EPG, so once again, it is not possible to select that
> channel using Tivo's EPG, and again I have to go into Sky's EPG to
> select it... Why is this important? - well, what about Box Office? -
> theres absolutely no point in allowing Tivo to try to record B.O.
> programmes, - I have to be there to enter the PIN into the digibox to
> authorise the payment... Therefore I don't include any B.O. channels
> in the "Channels I Receive" list.

I've heard a couple of people mention this and I never had that problem in
two years, maybe it's down to what programs are rated with the thumbs,
dunno.

> If anyone knows a better way of managing this, then I'm all ears!...

Don't watch live TV on TiVo, that's the point of it! ;)

K.