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anyone without Tivo noticing how the normal boxes are becoming more glitchy?
renno69
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Hi, Just wondering if anyone else is finding their boxes becoming more glitchy since Tivo came out?
I have the SA V+ box and allthough never perfect was mostly trouble free, but since the new ones arrived, it 'seems' like it's not working as well. i.e. hanging whilst changing channels, random re-boots and missing epg's are becoming more frequent than before. Anyone else noticed this? The cynical part of me is thinking maybe it's a ploy to get me to upgrade lol, though i'm sure that's not the case, anyone any thoughts? similar experiences?
I have the SA V+ box and allthough never perfect was mostly trouble free, but since the new ones arrived, it 'seems' like it's not working as well. i.e. hanging whilst changing channels, random re-boots and missing epg's are becoming more frequent than before. Anyone else noticed this? The cynical part of me is thinking maybe it's a ploy to get me to upgrade lol, though i'm sure that's not the case, anyone any thoughts? similar experiences?
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has it been happening more frequently over say the last 3-4 months, or is it about the same as before?, most of us know we'll have problems early morning (midnight - 3am) due to epg updates. these are problems not worth complaining to CS about, but they are annoying more than anything else.
lmfao, the Bourne Conspiracies eh?........:D
Interestingly, there's usually a slowdown, with delayed response to changing channels / navigation on playback, around midnight. Always thought this odd, as though some process was running around then which brought the box to a halt.
Perhaps I'm just paranoid, I am thinking about Tivo, so perhaps my box knows this and is trying to hurry me up
All within the last month.
At about the same time I had a few occasions where I'd set a reminder and it didn't trigger and I did wonder if that was VM doing that on purpose to see the amount of complaints they got so they could tell if Reminders were widely used. Probably just me being cynical.
Lately my box has been OK but not as trouble free as it used to be before Tivo was launched.
no-one is suggesting that, do virgin pay you to troll around berating any comment that might not be in virgins favour? (been checking some of your posts)
I am saying that MY box has become more prone to problems since tivo's arrival, now it's probably just a coincidence as i stated but maybe, whatever upgrades they implemented to support tivo on the system may not be as compatable with the older boxes and maybe causing problems, do you not think that's even a slight possibilty? and i don't suggest they'd really do it on purpose. I see you missed that i was joking when you previously quoted me, quoting me out of context lol.
I agree, mine has been more flaky than usual over the last few months.
More sound drop outs and picture blocking than there used to be, also my box reboots almost daily. And yes, I do think it started with the Tivo start up.
Same thing happened when NTL went digital, analogue service went downhill very quickly. I think I even accused them of doing it on purpose to get people to upgrade. Ha ha, my Doctor says I'm paranoid but I reckon he's got it in for me. :eek::D
No i dont work for Virgin, and maybe if you had looked at some of my other posts instead of being "selective" and picking up the pro Virgin ones, you would have seen that i also critiscise Virgin on other services, so please get your facts right and look more closely instead of making stupid "troll" comments.
Try deleting some stuff or formatting the box if you have watched everything...
did you say anything constructive in your post?, did you provide any relevant information?, or did you just post a snide pointless comment which helps or informs no-one! I and many others would class it as trolling, If you have something constructive to add by all means contribute, if not then shut up and go away.
I have between 40-50 hours free an my box, I did a re-format a few months ago, though I did use the DTV medic the other day and it seems tuners 1 and 2 can't equalise and my low range RF is too high but I haven't a clue what that means or what to do about it lol
Dont get this myself, maybe just lucky or circumstances not matching what you are doing. Only time I ever have to reboot my box is now and then I get like a white speaker icon on screen. Even at that, I can get rid of it for a while by pressing into V+ and back out again.
You need to lighten up sunshine and get a life! If you had maybe just looked properly at my post, you may have seen a smillie at the end of it, which generally means that the post was said with some intended humour attached to it, as for snide pointless comments wasn't it you who started this off with the "troll" comment?
Nope!