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Virgin or sky
David_Casson
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Was thinking of leaving virgin to go to sky TV .thank god I did not ,am on Holliday in Wales and were we are staying they have sky had box .so after 5 mins playing with it I wanted to chuck the thing out the window .sky remote horrible thing to hold , sky channels all over the place ,TiVo box and remote are a lot better .and last thing to moan about sky if I want to watch something on catch up TV you have to download it ,and you only have a certain usage amount .no thank you ,so just like to thank you virgin media I think your better than sky
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I changed to Sky 12 months ago & I'm currently in the process of changing back. I didn't realise until I changed to Sky, how many programmes I record at the same time whilst watching live tv until I hadn't got my Tivo box. I was constantly losing the signal whenever it rained or snowed or even windy. Glad to see the back of Sky!
Tivo is the main reason I won't switch, couldn't go back to only being able to record 2 programmes now.
It 's just a largely meaningless feature to me!
I have 3 tuners working a hell of a lot of the time.
Seriously 2 recording has seemed just perfect for me about 99% of the time
This simply means your viewing habits are different than other people.
The 9pm slot can be very congested.
Sometimes 3 tuners is not enough. That's when TiVo's other unique feature comes into use and reschedules programs for which there is no tuner available.
My personal record is 8 programs requiring recording at the same time. TiVo managed to record repeats for all programs and recorded all.
Recording far too much is too easy! It's finding the time to WATCH them! Extra tuners would just make this worse
To be honest, even 1TB is far too big for us as we actually do watch what we record.
I really can't see the benefit of recording material that will never be watched.
Even my 1TB Virgin Media box with only MPEG2 compression can record 120 hours of HD material. It would take 5 full days to watch.
I see no benefit in people's demand for bigger disks and MPEG4 compression. I see these devices for time-shifting your viewing, not for archiving material that neither belongs to you nor you will ever find time to watch.
Other stuff is "recorded so I have must have thought it was good at the time and I must get around to watching it":D
Definitely. I could use 4 or more some of the time.