Tivo menu weirdness...

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When I start at My Shows (Premiere at least, standard menus) and I choose a show to watch (pre-recorded), I hit the right arrow (or select I suppose) and it starts playing that show. When I hit left arrow, it stops playing that show, and brings me back to the My Shows menu... good, makes sense.

However, if in My Shows, I choose a show that is currently being recorded, it starts playing, I watch to the end maybe, and hit left arrow, I somehow get thrown into *another* currently-recording show, NOT back to the My Shows menu. That seems weird why it would jump into another show that is totally unrelated to the show I just watched...

 

yea, I tried the HD menus, but wasnt keen on them, but maybe I'll try them again...
1) they seem too busy and the PIP window was distracting. I think they didn't have a live-TV option? no?
2) I feed the Tivo output into a Slingbox. Can the Sling box handle HD menus? the res on Sling (e.g. in my office or on my iphone, at the receiving end of a 300-400kbs stream) isn't very high-res to begin with.

 

yes, but do all remote access methods (Sling, Tivo apps, etc) have a Live TV button? Does the IP command set have a Live TV button command?

 

I'm not sure we're talking about the same issue...

I'm concerned about controlling my Tivo when I DON'T have the native Tivo remote control available and its Live TV button, for example, across the Internet using a SlingBox or similar. Then all one has are the commands that the Tivo recognizes via its IP address, or that the SlingBox IR blaster knows how to send. All the remote interfaces seem to have the D-pad (arrows) available to nav the Tivo interface, but I'm not sure that the LiveTV button emulation is always available over the Internet. If not, the Watch Live TV option on the std menu is helpful.

I tried the HD menus again and found that the text labels for the menu options are too small to read clearly when viewed over the Internet via SlingBox, at least at the res and bandwidth that I have available (about 300-400kbs). So what am I really missing by sticking with the std menus?

 

thanks. do you use the HD menus with the Slingboxen and if so, can you actually see the menu labeling clearly, over the Internet (not just within your house network)?

 

I think I know what is happening... it seems like a bug to me...

I believe the idea is that, in My Shows, you select a program to watch, then if you left-arrow back out of that program, it tries to put you back in the My Shows menu exactly where you left off. HOWEVER, it apparently "remembers" where you left off in the My Shows menu by storing the POSITION (or number) of the menu entry that you were at.

SO if, while you are watching your selected program, the unit starts to record another show, then that show gets inserted into the My Shows menu and the remembered place of where you are in that menu is now WRONG, such that, if you back out of that program, it plops you somewhere else, in the same position on the menu but now pointing at the wrong show since a new one got inserted.

no biggie, but a minor bug