tluxon
02-26-2008, 12:50 PM
Could TiVo please consider designating the FF and REW buttons as "page a day forward" and "page a day back" buttons when the channel guide is up? This would greatly speed up our preferred practice of browsing the channel guide for upcoming shows we'd like to record.
Having been accustomed to using ReplayTVs and our cable company DVRs, manually browsing the channel guide grid for shows we didn't want to miss was very user-friendly and simple to do. There are buttons for skipping a day forward or back which made it really easy to quickly check primetime programming on a daily basis for the upcoming week. I never found it so cumbersome as to prefer doing such browsing on the not-a-lot-better web-based guides.
Enter the TiVoHDs we just bought. Navigating the guide is so painfully slow and cumbersome that we're figuring we'll have to keep at least one of our cable co's boxes for this task - as we don't have PCs at each sofa (the notebook PCs aren't permanently parked there). At $13 a month for one cableco DVR we're not really excited about that, but would probably choose it over the basic $5 STB so we would at least make time-shifting available over a firewire output for our D-VHS VCR.
I've been disappointed that a great many TiVo users have just accepted that guide browsing is not very efficient and recommended relying on season passes, wishlists, and the web guides. Don't get me wrong - I love being able to set recordings from the web - but the kind of programming we like to watch changes dramatically from week to week and we base our viewing choices quite a bit on current show descriptions in the guide.
Again, could TiVo please consider designating the FF and REW buttons as "page a day forward" and "page a day back" buttons when the channel guide is up? I'm sure we're not the only ones who would benefit from this.
Thank you.
Having been accustomed to using ReplayTVs and our cable company DVRs, manually browsing the channel guide grid for shows we didn't want to miss was very user-friendly and simple to do. There are buttons for skipping a day forward or back which made it really easy to quickly check primetime programming on a daily basis for the upcoming week. I never found it so cumbersome as to prefer doing such browsing on the not-a-lot-better web-based guides.
Enter the TiVoHDs we just bought. Navigating the guide is so painfully slow and cumbersome that we're figuring we'll have to keep at least one of our cable co's boxes for this task - as we don't have PCs at each sofa (the notebook PCs aren't permanently parked there). At $13 a month for one cableco DVR we're not really excited about that, but would probably choose it over the basic $5 STB so we would at least make time-shifting available over a firewire output for our D-VHS VCR.
I've been disappointed that a great many TiVo users have just accepted that guide browsing is not very efficient and recommended relying on season passes, wishlists, and the web guides. Don't get me wrong - I love being able to set recordings from the web - but the kind of programming we like to watch changes dramatically from week to week and we base our viewing choices quite a bit on current show descriptions in the guide.
Again, could TiVo please consider designating the FF and REW buttons as "page a day forward" and "page a day back" buttons when the channel guide is up? I'm sure we're not the only ones who would benefit from this.
Thank you.