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Old 02-17-2011, 04:55 AM   #1
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Syrup?

Just wondering before I take the plunge with a VM TiVo, how is it speed wise? I'm thinking of menu navigation etc.

My existing VM box is like syrup to navigate though whereas my TiVo is fairly speedy (no cache-card mind).

What to people think?
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Old 02-17-2011, 05:23 AM   #2
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In my (3-day) experience, it is surprisingly responsive much of the time, but sometimes slows right down. Hopefully they'll be able to fix this in time.
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Old 02-17-2011, 05:27 AM   #3
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Just wondering before I take the plunge with a VM TiVo, how is it speed wise? I'm thinking of menu navigation etc.

My existing VM box is like syrup to navigate though whereas my TiVo is fairly speedy (no cache-card mind).

What to people think?
Its much more like TiVo than a V-box. There's a few times when switching from one "mode" to another (e.g. from TV to "My Shows") where it takes a second or two ... but for scrolling up/down lists then it seems to be pretty responsive (and certainly several orders of magnitude better than the V-box which takes ~5-10secs for each cursor movement!)

No complaints from me ... can't say it feels any different from the S1 TiVo. To be honest its so much like the old TiVo that within a week I'm already not really thinking "its a new TiVo" any more!
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Old 02-17-2011, 05:32 AM   #4
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Thanks guys. Massively helpful.

Sad as it is, for my large investment with Virgin, all I really want is something that 'feels' about the same as my S1 TiVo.
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Old 02-17-2011, 10:57 AM   #5
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Thanks guys. Massively helpful.

Sad as it is, for my large investment with Virgin, all I really want is something that 'feels' about the same as my S1 TiVo.
As long as you also love the colour red ;-)
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Old 02-18-2011, 01:58 AM   #6
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I suspect that will take some getting used to!
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Old 02-18-2011, 07:54 AM   #7
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My other half doesn't like the red ("it's angry - blue was calming!").

But so far, the thing has been pretty damned quick for us. Slight delay in some channel changes but that's it.
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