setting reminders on TIVO
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Could someone please tell me how to set a programme reminder using the peanut shaped remote 
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Cheers martine.
Not only do I want a reminder, I want it to auto change channel too.
Do you want it to watch it for you as well then auto delete it?
Stop being an arse.
Just cause some of you cant understand how folk who watch live tv would like it to work.
Imagine, this scenario..
Waiting on a Live footy match coming on in say 40 mins. Set a reminder to auto change at that time. Now switch to music channel and listen to some tunes while I tidy house/make dinner, etc. I'll hear the switch over and can finish up what I'm doing and pop back in to see the Live game. Used to do this with V+ all the time.
Imagine this scenario! Setting a simple alarm for 35 minutes time rather than having a TV and TiVo box powered up waiting for a game to start in 40 minutes!
Frankly with soring energy prices I am surprised anybody can afford to waste electricity in this day and age!
You really think that it costs that much to power up?
strangely If I'm going to watch a football match live I know when it's going to kick off, I don't need to be reminded
Spot on............:p
ahh maybe you dont have other things to do and can sit about waiting on it starting. Apparently the tivo uses practically the same amount of electricity in standby as out of it anyway. My TV is off and playing the sound from my theatre system.
Not sure why folk on here cant accept we all like to do things differently. There are things other folk like and I dont but I never feel the need to be the defender of VM day and night.
What is wrong with it being an option ??
If you put Tivo on the channel where the broadcast is you'll not miss it and if all you are doing it watching something else until it starts why is it so hard to keep an eye on the time?
reminder apps are everywhere on phones, tablets and laptops. people find them useful. apple just released ios5 with guess what? a reminder app as standard.
the majority of households in the uk watch a ton of tv each and every day. so why the negative, sarcastic backlash against having them feature on a device that is used in conjunction with that tv?
I'm with you all the way. What is wrong with people? Had I known it was a feature on V+ I would have used it.
Hope they add it to Tivo
No extra coding necessary for Tivo so they can get on with patching up the real problems :rolleyes:
Because it's a pointless option. Isn't it better they concentrate on solving the real issues with the box?
Ahh yes. Time. The one thing that Tivo can save you plenty of. Up to 15 mins per hour, as it happens
Exactly.
But the Tivo already does that (change channel at start) with the added bonus that it records the programme for you too.
So, to recap:
Reminder:
Change channel at start
Tivo:
Change channel at start
Record programme.
So. Now can someone tell me why a reminder is better?
That is, of course, a completely different thing altogether so it's a pointless comparison.
Because it is a redundant feature as Tivo already does something much better. (See above.)
Right, I must be missing something(and I'm not being sarcastic) but I just went to guide, picked a programme 2 along and dont see this option of change channel at start, that you are referring to above. I'd be fairly happy with that if you can point it out to me ??
So i'm sitting with the News channel on, up pops a reminder i'd set days ago saying so & so is about to start on another channel - great, i'll watch that. I wasn't watching anything in particular, I can now watch something I want to watch. What has the fact it could be recording have anything to do with it?
You don't want/like reminders, others do. That doesn't make it pointless, it means you don't want it. There is a difference believe it or not.
I guess that would depend on how many times the TV is left on with nobody watching it wouldn't it Timpo?
That is how I have been watching TV for about ten years now.
No last century functionality needed.
But they wouldn't need them if they would simply realise that what they have now is better.
Because Tivo has 3 tuners to record.
If you want reminders go back to a regular archaic box
The whole point is that if you spot something in the Guide you set it to RECORD then you won't miss it.
If you set a reminder you might not be around to see it anyway.
On the V+ a reminder was a relevant feature because its third tuner was not available to record so if your box was recording two programmes you could be reminded that you can still view on the third tuner even though you could not record it.
With Tivo you can record on all 3 tuners so reminders are not necessary. Just hit record instead of REMIND then if you spot a red recording light pop on that will remind you to click My Shows and your programme will be there ready to start watching
I really dont see this working. Surely its only going to record the programme on another tuner,so wont actually change over the channel I was on. In fact I'm sure most folk would be very annoyed if it did actually do that.
no they're not
Tivo will never have reminders
Yes they will http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=52945947&postcount=1