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scorpionatthepc
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A friend of mine has TiVo and is interested in the Netflix service on there but he doesn't have internet but I've told him I could setup an email address for him. I think he just wants the 30 day trail tbh but would he be able to cancel via his TiVo when his trail is up or would he have to do it via a computer?
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That is correct.
1 Sign up on the web page using an email address, password and credit card. Click on the free month trial. Once they are satisfied you haven't had a free trial before they will email you within seconds to tell you that you have a free month's trial.
2 Log back in and cancel. The web site will tell you subscription will not be renewed after the following date (one month ahead).
3 Open the Tivo app (or Channel 204) and sign in with email and password. Tivo will remember these details and you will not have to sign in again (unless you want to watch Netflix on another device).
4 The Tivo uses its own internal broadband for the streaming and it will begin with a basic picture. As it realises it has a decent broadband speed, picture gets better. Max pic quality is Super HD (1080p) - if you want to see the progress of the better picture press INFO on remote.
5. Finally if you do want to sign out of Netflix (maybe to watch a film at another home) then once it has opened with the film choice menu, ignore what happens on the screen as you press keys on your remote that takes you to the log off page: UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN,LEFT,RIGHT,LEFT,RIGHT,UP,UP,UP,UP.
Hop all this helps
Been my mates today and he's signed up without a valid email address. He just typed any email in and then just entered his bank details and Netflix excepted it!!!
I gather they will take payment as the email address doesn't even exist?
Why is that a problem? If he didn't want to join, why did he give his bank details? Was this a month's trial he signed up for? If so, he really needs the phoney email address to cancel it but he'll still get a free month. If he can't remember the email address he will have to phone them to cancel. Seems odd behaviour especially as there are sites which allow you to use a temp email address for an hour or so.
What a donkey.
TIVO takes about a minute to load fully, but once you are in, everything's fine.
If this is not what is happening for you Jez, I'd call Customer Services. It's either a box or a signal problem in my opinion.
The accounts are not geographically locked down. So your account can access any netflix server regardless of location.
You have to use either a US VPN or a DNS server which has been edited to reroute netflix lookups (google netflix dns)
you must be one of those magic people with a different box to the rest
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/TiVo/Netflix-on-TiVo-is-USELESS/td-p/2084658/page/4
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/TiVo/Youtubue-and-Netflix-slow-to-load-after-Tivo-update/td-p/2067322
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/TiVo/Netflix-App-slow/td-p/2078758/page/2
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/11/33695520-tivo-update-netflix-page-53.html
Yes, a few people complaining on a forum where people come to complain doesn't mean there is a generic problem affecting everyone.
I agree totally! The worst ever experience using netflix is with the TiVo.
www.unblock-us.com/
We are using Netflix a lot and we do not have the kind of problems that some are reporting on here.
I have a Cisco box, to be fair the whole thing is naff. It's slow slow slow.
Contract is up on the 10th of April and its due to switch off on that date. Can't wait.
I wasn't exactly going to find a million different posts on every user that has issues. In my living room I can access netflix via my tv, tivo, wii or xbox (from the devices connected to my tv) out of all them the tivo is deffo the slowest. Starting a program isn't really the issue it's the actual loading. It takes an age to present you with profiles and then a further age to show you the media catalogue after that. Out of all of them the xbox is the fastest logging in and doing on the above much faster. This isn't down to network performance it is purely the speed of the processor in the tivo is quite pants really.
I get the profile selection I'm sure, but yeah it's the slowness of initially loading thats a put off. P.S it's not just netflix youtube and spotify are just as bad.
However, Netflix on it is awful. Very hard to get to like. Takes forever to set up and to load and when it does it keeps buffering and pausing and never playing more than a few seconds before I just give up.
My box was set up by Virgin only 10 days ago and I have not been able to watch more than 30 seconds of anything on Netflix before I have to get on with my life.
It is badly letting the side down for my impressions of Virgin as a newbie.
Netflix works fine for me
by the way, netflix on tivo uses its own 10 meg internet. I'd get virgin to check the line and area first
same here
I use Netflix via the TiVo a lot and only had the very occasional issue with it