I love my TiVo DVR mainly because it provides a number of features that the competition doesn’t offer. For example, one of my favorite features that is included with all TiVo DVRs is the ability to customize which channels I want to have included in my channel list. This feature is great because it allows me to remove channels that I never watch (ie: QVC, Home Shopping Network). By doing this, I am able to reduce the number of channels that are included in the guide thereby, making it easier for me to browse the guide since I don’t have to “ignore” channels that I’m really not interested in.
In my opinion, it’s features like this which makes TiVo far superior to the competition….
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- TiVo Central
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- TiVo Messages & Settings
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- TiVo Settings
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- TiVo Channel Settings
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- TiVo Channel List
Agreed – I do the same thing. I just upgraded to FIOS and the HD Receiver Verizon gives doesn’t have anything close to that option. It shows all the availabel channels, regardless if you are subscribed to them or not. At least with Dish Network, I could filter the guide to only channels I receive. I guess they wouldn’t want to pass up an option to “upsell” me.
Yes but they could go further! they could have it so it lists the channels in the order you most watch them (or most tivo’d channels) … i’d like that…. but then there are still a LOT of things they can do to Tivo to make it better.
1) if something can’t be recorded and there are other Tivo’s on the network that are “open” … it should switch over to record it on the other
2) when transferring .. give an option to transfer and remove from other tivo
just to mention a couple
I also remove the SD versions of channels that are duplicated in HD, with some exceptions (like SciFi which broadcasts Dr Who letterboxed and windowboxed, what are they thinking???).
I’ve always removed the shopping and religious channels. They’re just selling me stuff that I’m not buying
mike, those are some great ideas. I would love to see TiVo implement something like this.
Tom, I do the same thing. I also remove analog OTA channels if I can get the digital version.
I agree this is important, but if you are agree to work with a PC tvguide – you can check my TVGuide, it will allow you to see your channels but apart from removing channels, you can mark channels as favorites and see only them or highlight them, in addition the one most important feature is removing repeated shows that you do not like,
this is amazing actually because after some time of filtering shows you do not like (an hour work) you will see much smaller tvguide, you can see only new shows, or shows you haven’t filteres, or shows you like,
much better then just hiding channles.
I use this feature to stop my tivoHD from recording HD programs as suggestions since I do not yet have an HDTV to enjoy them on. However, I have noticed that they seem to come back as selected sometimes and I find HD programs recorded again. Very frustrating. Anybody know why channels might become selected again automatically?
I wonder if TiVo resets the channel list when a lineup change is detected, or maybe when the system reboots. I used to prune my channel list, but as Jon noticed the stuff I removed would periodically reappear, so I gave up. But it’s certainly a nice idea.
Tivo doesn’t reset the channel list when you reboot, or when a lineup change occurs. But it does add to your list any time a new channel is detected, even when all it does it delete it and add it back in one step. I’d like it to not add the new channels; let me decide when I get the notification if I want it or not. All that ever gets added on my lineup is junk, junk, and more junk. I don’t shop on tv, I don’t pray on tv, I don’t speak any of the languages they jam down my windpipe, we have no kids, and we’re not really sports fans. That leaves us a handful of channels we watch regularly and a bunch we might watch occasionally. The rest are deleted from my list, and I’d like to be in charge of what gets on the list, not the box!
I’d like to see a way to press a button (or button combination) as I change channels and If I am on a channel I don’t want to press this to remove it from my lineup. (Often only when I see what is on the channel can I remember if I use it or not)
It would be nice to do something similar over the network that my Tivo is connected to by entering its IP address and editing the channel line that way. I use it with my DirecTV tuner, and with 100’s of channels to go through cleaning up the channel line up is painful (hence I haven’t done it).
This undeniably useful feature sure would be a lot more convenient if one could add or remove a channel from the line up while they were browsing channels.