What features from Tivo would you like added to your E* box?
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What about when you search for something it searches the name AND description. Like if the Cardinals are playing and I do a search for them it won't show up because the program is actually called MLB Baseball. So I have to manually go in and do info on all of them to find the correct one.
Yes, Yes, Yes!!! The HR-20 from D* also does a better job of altering end times of future recordings, easily.
AS for #2, Dish DVR's warn with a pop-up that the timer will fire. This is your cue to press record on the current channel you have buffered and select "Record Remainder of Program." The DVR will will save the recording from that point forward and you will be able to watch the ending of that program while the DVR tunes to a different channel to record the the previously set timer. If it is available, a "Record Entire Program" may also be selected. One just has to know how to use a particular manufacture's STB.
Agreed! Enhancement of current Dish features or completely new ones are far more preferred than any Tivo features. I have nothing against Tivo, I just don't care for a lot of their "neat" features, and I have used Tivo.
However, I wouldn't mind channel logos. The that Tivo and cable have. However, when I did have channel logos, I did find not always helpful and hard to read.
lots of good stuff listed in this thread - here's some of my most missed tivo features:
tivo's guide date
- goes out 2 weeks instead of 7-8 days
- much more detailed and informative
wish lists (dish pass is a poor substitute)
tivo's much smoother ff, rw, and slo-mo (at least it was on my old hr10-250)
single channel viewing
search results as you type
tivo-to-go (never had it on the hr10, but i've seen it and want to have it)
maybe i'll wake up the old tivo later and see if there are any more i missed...
tivo's guide date
- goes out 2 weeks instead of 7-8 days
- much more detailed and informative
wish lists (dish pass is a poor substitute)
tivo's much smoother ff, rw, and slo-mo (at least it was on my old hr10-250)
single channel viewing
search results as you type
tivo-to-go (never had it on the hr10, but i've seen it and want to have it)
maybe i'll wake up the old tivo later and see if there are any more i missed...
This feature is excellent, expecially making wishlists (DishPasses). In Tivo, I could hit "Search by director," type in "Hi," and see all the directors whose names start with "Hi." With Dish, I have to spell out the whole damn thing on that clunky interface, and it sucks.
And I agree with the buffering thing as well—was shocked that my channel wasn't still recording when I finished checking the DVR.
Another buffer issue: If I'm watching a movie or program and decide, "I don't have time to watch it, so I'll record it," my Tivo would save it as far back as the buffer went. My 722 only starts from the exact time I pressed record. Lame.
I second the wishlist. Being able to create a list of keywords to record such as any program with a certain director, actor or movie title automatically.
Yeah, my wife really misses that feature. If she is channel surfing and lands on a show that turns out to be worth keeping, all she had to do on the TiVo was hit record and everything in the buffer up to that point would be saved, along with the rest of the show. With the ViP, if you miss the first couple minutes of the show, the "Record Entire Event" option is gone, and you can only record from your current position to the end.
Does anyone here know a workaround for this situation, aside from hoping to find a repeat broadcast to record later?
-OD
This is a biggie. This makes TiVo look superior.
Another one that made me wonder. I'm clicking on a program in a list to modify/view/delete it. When I come back to the list, it goes to the top of the list, not where I was in the list.
Little things like this make the interface look bad. That's not some kind of copyrighted feature, that's elementary computer interface logic.
Another one that I don't think anyone has mentioned is that when I look up a program to record it, it defaults to ALL programs when I press to record it. Since there are no TiVo-like "season pass" features, all programs of a show may well be 10 times a day on some channels that repeat a lot. So why not default to recording one program rather than ALL programs? Or default to "weekly" or "daily." Seems like ALL programs would usually be my last choice, not first.
I cannot tell you the number of times I have accidentally recorded ALL the programs when I just wanted an episode.
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Awesome! You know, as I was pondering the problem a few minutes ago, I thought of this possibility, and made a mental note to check it out next time, to see if it worked. Glad it does.
TiVo also has things that aren't just quite right and you have to learn tricks to get around them. For example , the 30 second skip easter egg, and the problem of stoping a program in the last 5 minutes of the show and finding no option to rewind, just "delete" or "save."
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Create that search, run it, and then it will always be saved in the Search history. I use the history much more than typing in a search by hand.
+1
It would be cool though if they added an "Entire Event (partial)" record option to grab that buffer, or made that the default behavior.
I think modding the VIP to make them into Tivo like will make them Clunky.
Leave it the way it is, have options for menu colours, and do allow for multiroom HDDVR access through the home network from stand alone boxes will be suffice for me.
Leave it the way it is, have options for menu colours, and do allow for multiroom HDDVR access through the home network from stand alone boxes will be suffice for me.
Might sound like a minor one, but i'd love if there was audio/sound on any screen I'm on. If you're watching a game, and want to tweak something, you cant hear what you might be missing. Sometimes the further you drill down into some menus, you lose audio/sound. Also, audio/sound on the guides w/o video. i might use the extended w/o video guide if there was sound instead of deafening silence.
