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Glen
03-15-2008, 06:55 AM
Hi All, I have read lots about the 255 and 255a sw, but i am not sure whether it applies to my new tv which i am getting on tuesday. I am getting a Sony Bravia 40inch tv for the bargain price of £480 brand new (with a little help from 20% staff discount) but i am not sure whether i'll need version a or not, as if i do, i'll order it now and be done with it to save time. Ill also need mode 0 recording, but i'm fairly certain my hard disk came with mode 0 so all I have to do is make sure that best is selected in quality?

thanks for your advice guys! nice to speak again.
cwaring
03-15-2008, 07:57 AM
I'd get 2.5.5 and see if it works okay. You can always ask Tivo to update you to 'a' if you need it.
blindlemon
03-15-2008, 09:23 AM
I'd get 2.5.5 and see if it works okay. You can always ask Tivo to update you to 'a' if you need it.Not a good idea if your upgrade drive is > 120gb!

If you bought your existing drive from me, send me an email or PM and ask for instructions on how to enable the 2.5.5a 'self-upgrade' feature ;)

If you were buying a new drive now you could also ask for the 'silent' 2.5.5a option when ordering a drive. This will give you the functionality (no teletext) of 2.5.5a but with a version number of 2.5.5 so you won't ever need to request an upgrade.
Richard Loxley
03-15-2008, 10:05 AM
My 32" Sony Bravia LCD (bought last November) works fine with 2.5.5
cwaring
03-15-2008, 11:30 AM
Not a good idea if your upgrade drive is > 120gb!
Oh okay. Knew I shouldn't have said anything :o :p
blindlemon
03-15-2008, 11:50 AM
Oh okay. Knew I shouldn't have said anything :o :pJust don't mention my 'monopolistic' pricing and we'll be fine :)
blindlemon
03-15-2008, 11:51 AM
My 32" Sony Bravia LCD (bought last November) works fine with 2.5.5It appears that some newer Sony TVs don't have this problem, so maybe they've finally fixed their chip :up::)
Glen
03-16-2008, 01:18 PM
thanks for the help so far. lol funny thing is though, i can't remember where i got my upgrade drive from lol but its a 160gb hard drive i think lol. It was either tivoheaven or the other tivo upgrade supplier lol
Glen
03-19-2008, 03:27 PM
ironically enough, my new bravia works with my silver peanet which my older goodmans 295ns didnt lol odd!
Richard Loxley
03-20-2008, 09:45 AM
ironically enough, my new bravia works with my silver peanet which my older goodmans 295ns didnt lol odd!

I took my Tivo remote and a printout of the codes list to Comet to check it would control my Sony set before I bought it!
dvdfever
03-24-2008, 05:52 PM
Not a good idea if your upgrade drive is > 120gb!

What would be the problem? When I had no alternative but to ask for that upgrade, a while back, as the TiVo was already at 2.5.5a but my subs were on 2.5.5 (and I then used that zip file that gets me the subtitles back) I am doing it on a TiVo with a 250Gb hard drive.

Or was it that the TiVo already had 2.5.5a on that made it okay? Actually,thinking about it as I type I seem to remember that it might knacker the kernel if my TiVo didn't already have 2.5.5a?
blindlemon
03-24-2008, 07:01 PM
If your TiVo drive already had 2.5.5a installed, then asking for the upgrade would just bring the servers into line with your drive and no download should occur.
dvdfever
03-24-2008, 07:28 PM
That'll be it, ta. It was a little while ago so my memory's a bit hazy :)