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I also have a question for you smokie, if you don't mind.

There is a a Youtube video showing the new VirginTIVO in operation, and the latency between pushing buttons and anything happening (a menu coming up, for instance) is very noticeable. Has this been a problem for you, or not? And does it seem a lot less responsive that your series 1 TIVO?

Thanks for any info. Mind you, I'm surprised you've had a chance to use the TIVO at all, answering all our questions for us! (grin)

 

What speeds are the fast forward ? And does it have that delightful little skip back when you stop ?

 

Hi John, I posted a Youtube video of my experience with the new TiVo. I am regretful to admit that after 2 days with it now, the input lag is very disappointing in my opinion. I'd say its slower than my S1 TiVo and my V+ HD box.

 

Are all button presses slow, for instance channel change, or just through the menu's?

 

when the TV guide is up, I personally find going up and down on that screen faster than in the menus.

Channel changes aren't too bad, about the same as my V+ HD box, but I'd still like them faster really too

Also one issue for me is that the HD menus sometimes change to SD. This can be seen on my videos.

Don't want to sound so down about it, the functionality and the visuals of the menus are the business. Not watched enough yet to get any suggestions though!

 

Thanks for the feedback big_dirk. Are you comparing it to a Samsung or SA V+?

 

Samsung.

 

That's a relief.
I've got an SA V+ and I cope with the speed of it but I wouldn't like to change to a box that is slower.

 

@smokie and big_dirk
When you had Tivo fitted were you granted access to the Tivo forum on the Virgin main forums which the '1000' people seem to have been given access too.
I assume it's going to be a public forum eventually, but hoping us S1 people aren't going to be locked out of the Virgin forums where we maybe able to help some Tivo newbies

 

never even knew there was one! I dont see a TiVo forum @ http://community.virginmedia.com/ though.

 

Tivo forum can be found at:

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Tivo/ct-p/Tivo

but only if you have been granted access. I haven't.

 

Which is what I'm getting at, surely everyone who has been given a Tivo should be granted access to this hidden forum?
Surely Virgin won't make this forum exclusive to the select 1000 who got a Tivo for free. I don't mind that people have been lucky enough to get a Tivo for free but would find it odd if S1 people who have paid for the Tivo and getting it early won't get access.
Hoping this won't be the case, I know access to the hidden forum may not seem much but why hide it from us?

 

I get "Sorry, you do not have sufficient privileges for that action.
Please click the Back button on your browser."

 

Your video has been re-posted on two blogs, on the 'VMHD' blog one commenter says that "At this moment in time this is not the finished article, there is still a fair bit of testing going on."

http://vmhd.blogspot.com/2011/02/virgins-tivo-in-action.html

Just in case you are wondering, the other blog is:
http://virgintivo.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-youtube-video-reveals-real-life.html

 

The US TiVo still has those SD menus when going into the settings menus too. I don't think they have plans to change them at the moment.

 

Looks a bit ugly to have the 2 different versions, but not so bad if they are menus that aren't used too often.

 

For all the excitement about the new interface, I've mentioned here before that I thought it looked a bit 'busy' - especially with those images at the top. Now that the interface has been seen in action and looks a little slow, I would hate to think that we have to sacrifice speed because of that 'suggestions bar' or whatever it's called having to load and draw each time.

You would have thought that the progress in processor speed over the last 10 years or so would mean there was no way in hell the interface could be slower that our S1s, right? Even if it IS doing a bit more now.

Here's hoping the rumoured tweaking and improvements are true. Otherwise, it would be nice if you could turn the superfluous gubbins off if you so desired? (I doubt it though - any options for the display of this Smokie/Big_dirk? Also, if you have kids, I assume the imagery up there will always be family friendly?) It made me laugh that in the slick Virgin video, they are all top-end US shows, but in the shots posted here, they are Tellytubbies and Jeremy Kyle...

 

thanks for posting them VM Phil! whooaaaaaa i'm famous!