Agreed, having had virgin before I moved home, I can say virgin had really good recording options. Helped by really good enhanced meta data.
Things youview could add but it would be complex to add it in. For those who didn't know virgin can:-
- Alter the start and end times of padding
- Alter the series link to record all or just new
- Alter the series link to record HD only, HD preferred with sd as fallback, or all
- Allow phantom recordings which if selected aren't actually recordings they are hot links straight to catchup.
- As tivo used to call it 'season pass' which was essentially a series, series link. It would pickup the new series and record that series.
There is a known bug in bt at the moment where some recordings are chopped off before they end. This is not due to lack of padding because I've seen recordings end before the supposedly actual end in the guide.
Virgin had great meta data that could pull up actor info, film rating, and other cool stuff like poster art etc.
BT system via youview isn't bad, just needs some improvements. Things will come in time I'm sure.
I think though alot of providers are starting to push away from recordings and enter 'watch lists'. Catchup is **bleep** IMHO as forced adverts are a literal pain. Seems illogical to pay to remove ads when you already pay for TV in the first place.
