While I do get the end of one show, I miss out on recording others cause of the buffer.

What needs to happen is sadly some gov ruling that TV networks need to stick tot he PUBLISHED times. There is no reason for these pre recorded shows to run 15mins late (or even 2 mins late!!) The shows are pre recorded, they know how long they run for, the ads are inserted. What happens is on popular shows, more ads are inserted to pad them out, making them run over time!

Only live records have any valid excuses to ran late. everything else should be locked into the published schedules!

I’ve got a Tivo as well and it’s in the same boat (along with every other PVR), they need to rely on what the TV networks provide schedule wise to them and work off that, I don’t know of any PVR that adjusts automatically if a show is running over.

As for downloading the movie, well that’s a different issue and since it’s internet connection related would be an entirely separate problem.

If the set up records 10 minutes before automatically then logic suggest that the set up could be for 10 minutes after also. So the system advertises recording televisions programs automatically but we have to make manual adjustments to ensure those programs are recorded? So we are actually not recording programs at all but are recording pre set times. Probably a tad hard for you to follow but I was under the belief I bought a set and forget system not one that I had to manually adjust. (that how it was marketed anyway).
But you are right. I am dumb for believing these guys could deliver. Tried again last night to download and watch the movie I have been previously charged for…guess what….yep…half way through it crashed again.
Another wasted evening

Looks like video shops are not dead after all.

I am cancelling my Westnet (iinet) and Fetch subscriptions. Extremely poor service

Cheers!

There is a clear lack of sport content (other than Sentanta channel) if they can somehow strike a deal with Foxtel to distribute (NRL, ALF, A-League games) etc I would look at keeping it.

That was just a basic example, the TiVo (thanks to it’s EPG data quality) has far more advanced features than most PVR’s out there (and the patents to match).

And btw, my TiVo’s, with no mods at all, using the installed TiVo Desktop Plus Software can play every single file format that my PC can (I use the CCCP codecs) with no issues at all – the TDP Software transcodes on the fly direct to the TiVo (using MPEG4) with no PQ loss and supports DD5.1 as well.

This has the benefit of me being able to use the skip back and FF/RR features plus if I need to stop a movie (or TV Show) part way thru my TiVo remembers where I was up to when i resume the next day (or whenever).

Some other nice things the TiVo does which other “dumb” pvr’s cant is self manage your storage, If you like to record daily chat/comedy/news shows, you can tell it to only keep the last 5 shows and delete the others when the space is needed.

I quite like Michael Douglas Movies too and and have setup a “wishlist” series record that looks at EVERY single guide listing for shows/movies that contain the actor “michael douglas” and then records them.

I also like the underbelly series and cant be bothered setting up a series record for every series as they come up so I simply setup a single “wishlist” series record that looks for “underbelly” in the title of shows and then records them when found.

I could go on but the simple fact is, even the now obsolete TivoHD model as far more advanced than any other brand PVR on the market in all key areas!

Fair enough, it’s the smoothest PVR I’ve ever used, if it’s clunky to you then you’re expectations must truly exceed what’s out there in the market.