ReplayTV vs. TiVo
My beloved ReplayTV series 4000 died at the end of August and after a suitable period of mourning I've finally replaced it with a TiVo HD. So far the TiVo looks nicer but there seems to be a few obvious things that ReplayTV did that TiVo doesn't do.
First and most obvious, it doesn't automatically skip commercials (yes, I understand, there are lawyers just waiting to pounce).
Second, when one has selected a program to record in the future, the TiVo doesn't put any kind of obvious mark in the channel guide that indicates that program is scheduled; instead, one needs to go to the central menu and navigate around to the to-do list. In ReplayTV future recordings had a funky little icon in the channel guide indicating the program was scheduled to be recorded, this seems so simple and obvious I think I must be missing something in TiVo.
Lastly, after watching a recorded program, one could delete it without navigating back to another menu. In TiVo one has to go back program menu, using the left arrow button.
I suppose that none of these little things would be so annoying, if the box wasn't so slow. Most of the time when navigating around the TiVo software, the television and the TiVo lose their connection (momentarily). I don't watch that much TV and I can live with these problems, since the alternative is much too horrible to imagine (waves of commercials), but I would have thought that TiVo would be more grown up at this point.
First and most obvious, it doesn't automatically skip commercials (yes, I understand, there are lawyers just waiting to pounce).
Second, when one has selected a program to record in the future, the TiVo doesn't put any kind of obvious mark in the channel guide that indicates that program is scheduled; instead, one needs to go to the central menu and navigate around to the to-do list. In ReplayTV future recordings had a funky little icon in the channel guide indicating the program was scheduled to be recorded, this seems so simple and obvious I think I must be missing something in TiVo.
Lastly, after watching a recorded program, one could delete it without navigating back to another menu. In TiVo one has to go back program menu, using the left arrow button.
I suppose that none of these little things would be so annoying, if the box wasn't so slow. Most of the time when navigating around the TiVo software, the television and the TiVo lose their connection (momentarily). I don't watch that much TV and I can live with these problems, since the alternative is much too horrible to imagine (waves of commercials), but I would have thought that TiVo would be more grown up at this point.
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