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"Please wait... It might take a minute."
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Posted by: ibergu

It's a fairly minor annoyance but I've always thought the "Please wait... It might take a minute." warning could be improved upon by some sort of time completion bar (similar to the one used when loading software or a webpage) that would give the user some sense of how long it will take to complete the requested task.

Not sure how difficult it would be to program this, but I would find it helpful.

Also, on a separate note, we would buy a second TIVO to keep in our bedroom if the unit wasn't so darn loud (a humming noise-probably the internal fan- is audible 24/7). I wonder if this is/will be corrected in newer units. Ours is about a year old.

Thanks for letting me vent a little. Any feedback would be appreciated.

Posted by: tomo_kun

How would it be helpful? I dont think there is a possible way. Its only the DirecTV loading part.

For the fan, you could always replace it.

Posted by: voripteth

I'd prefer the ability to watch live TV or play another program while TiVo is doing time consuming operations.

Posted by: classicsat

But when it is booting it's operating software that would be impossible, otherwise it does allow normal operation when it is doing background data managing tasks.

Posted by: voripteth

I'm not concerned about the wait when booting a TiVo because that doesn't happen very often. On the other hand the "Please Wait" and "This will take a few minutes" messages happen all too frequently.

I just checked and you can NOT view live TV or pre-recorded programs while these messages are displayed. It would be nice if time consuming operations were done in the background allowing us to still use the TiVo as it got its act together.

Often when I'm working on my Season Pass manager I want to see what upcoming episodes are available. Unfortunately this causes the TiVo to rebuild its list if something has changed. I wish I could just view the upcoming episodes without rebuilding! The Season Pass manager screen needs to rebuild on exit or on manual command, NOT after each change.

Posted by: csyria

How can you hear your TiVo? I have a S1 and I can't hear it unless I am about 1 mm from it. It is out in the open in my bedroom.

But, you could try enclosing it in a case or a rack

Posted by: Gunnyman2k3

also, this might take a minute is a bit unrealistic especially when managing season passes.
I think the appropriate message should be "go make a sandwhich and balance your checkbook while you wait..."

Posted by: Rkkeller

They need to speed things up a lot. I cant
believe how long some things take. Faster
processor, more memory, whatever but the
next generation Tivos need to be improved.

Rich

Posted by: voripteth

Some operations take much longer than I would expect. Say, marking a recorded program as "Keep until I delete" can take a minute. I would expect it to happen instantly by changing the flag on that one show.

I think that the TiVo software likes to regenerate entire lists instead of intelligently seeing what the changes affect.

Posted by: drewbenson

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Originally posted by voripteth
Some operations take much longer than I would expect. Say, marking a recorded program as "Keep until I delete" can take a minute. I would expect it to happen instantly by changing the flag on that one show.

I think that the TiVo software likes to regenerate entire lists instead of intelligently seeing what the changes affect.

I'm not sure if it does or not. Based on the time it takes, that's what I'd think -- but it seems like if you are fooling with things mostly at the bottom of the list, it doesn't take as long.

In any case, it seems like this stuff could all be done in the background. I'd just like to be able to keep using the interface while it does it. I don't really care if it fools around for 1/2 hour in the background after I'm done.