@OLD_BOY_ASKING wrote:
You forgot about the ability to set profiles on the 360, which is a major practical advantage when there’s more than one person making use of the box. I have used it for my watchlists and found it invaluable.
To be honest, the only thing I’ve missed from the V6 has been the skip back feature when you fast forward. All those other features you mention may have been nice to have for the few that make use of them, but I made little use of them back in the day.
The ‘pretty pictures’ you dismiss is more like the streamers that we see when we go into the menu, and many people prefer this rather than the old fashioned list style used on the TiVo system. Incidentally, you can see all your recordings as a list if you prefer on the 360 just by clicking on the ‘View all’ tile.
On balance, I much prefer the 360 - the things I’ve lost are just gimmicks to me and on the whole, I haven’t missed them.
Profiles are negated somewhat by the fact that all recordings are now all lumped together on one box, maybe an improvement if you've got multiple people using a single box and all watching different things, but in a multi-room setup with multiple boxes you get basically all the benefits of profiles anyway, plus more, such as keeping everyone's recordings separate and meaning that if one person deletes a program on their box it isn't deleted for everyone else (who would then be unable to undo that due to the lack of undelete).
The loss of all the series link management stuff also seems a major step back, considering the main purpose of a PVR is recording and playing back TV, those are really fundamental features.
I also personally found Wishlists to be incredibly useful, as they would pick up plenty of programs I was interested in watching, even on obscure channels and without me needing to scour the program guide the whole time.
