DirecTV & TiVo -- all slow :(

I bought a Sony SAT T60 Direct TV Receiver w/TiVo yesterday and hooked it up. To my dismay, the guide and channel switching is very slow. It seems to have to fetch program data at a very slow rate from the dish everytime. Does anyone else have this setup and is it slow for them?

 

[royaldank]

Part of the lag is due to TiVo recording it.

I have a TiVo hooked up in the living room and I can usual go from my bedroom to my living room and hear the same sentence twice. It's only about a second or less, but it is noticeable. That is probably what you are experiencing.

Also, I had my DVD player going through the TiVo with sound directly to my receiver. Forgot about TiVos delay and started a movie. The soundtrack was off a second and it took me a couple minutes to realize what the problem was.

 

[Murphyrulez]

Yes, it is slower than a normal Directv box. try going to AVSFORUM and read through the TIVO discussion board. Lots of suggestions on how to make the box change channels faster and things. I have a standalone Tivo and it takes about 1.5 seconds to channel up or down. It has to tell the Directv box CHANNEL 3-4-5 ENTER, CLEAR INFO FROM SCREEN. Then you see the channel. So it takes a little time.

Paul

 

[Looney]

I don't know what you mean by slow... when i initially switched from cable, i definitely thought it was slow too, but now i'm use to it. How slow is slow? I know its hard to qualify that, but it could be normal.

 

When I had my standard DirecTV receiver I could blaze through the channels, they would not come in right away, but the channel and show detail bar would come up. The guide was also snappy and I didn't really see it draw. With DirecTV and TiVo I cannot really blast through channels, it lags. It takes about 2 seconds for the show information to pop up. If I chose the channel, it takes another 2 - 3 seconds for the channel to come in, where before it took about 1 second (that's probably TiVo lag as royaldank said).

The guide is almost unusable, it's so sluggish. Paging up and down has to refresh the channel list. There are times when the guide does not repaint for over 10 seconds, then the descriptions start to trickle in. With regular DTV it was not exactly blazing, but never annoyingly slow.

Any ideas?

 

[royaldank]

<< The guide is almost unusable, it's so sluggish. Paging up and down has to refresh the channel list. There are times when the guide does not repaint for over 10 seconds, then the descriptions start to trickle in. With regular DTV it was not exactly blazing, but never annoyingly slow.
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I can't say that my DSS through my TiVo is this slow, however I might believe it since it's running TiVo with the receiver. I've noticed that when hitting the TiVo button sometimes it takes up to 10 seconds to actually get a menu. I guess if they had the TiVo controlling the satellite part as well, this might be the reason it's slow. I think TiVos only have a PocketPC 55MHz chip in them, so they can't fly and take a sec to get going.

I feel for you...that sounds like a pain in the rear. I remember first getting TiVo, the slight delay there took awhile to get used to. I can't imagine having it run as slow as the actual TiVo menus...

 

[Murphyrulez]

How long have you had the Tivo up and running? If this is your first day, it will still be indexing all the information and it will be slow responding to anything you tell it. My Tivo doesn't take anytime at all to switch pages in the guide.

Paul

 

[ericb]

Mine was very slow for the first week or so but it did speed up eventually.

 

<< Mine was very slow for the first week or so but it did speed up eventually. >>


That's what I am hoping. I know that I am not getting data from TiVo via the dialup yet. Hopefully all that stuff will get cached and it will get faster.