Thread: TiVo General TiVo Discussion Part 3
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Old 25-03-2015, 13:53   #2481
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Re: General TiVo Discussion Part 3
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Originally Posted by passingbat View Post
I have a Fire TV, LG Bluray and WDTV, and all of those load Netflix faster than Tivo, so I never use Tivo for Netflix.

However, there are some people (OLD BOY for example) who want Tivo to do everything and don't want to buy extra boxes or upgrade to a smart TV just for 'smart features'. For those people, IMHO opinion, 45 seconds is fine.

I bought the WDTV box just to get Netflix at 1080p and 5.1 audio. If Tivo had had Netflix at the time, and was not just restricted to UK Netflix, I would quite happily have lived with the TiVo's 45 second load time and not bought the WDTV.
I totally agree, it's a great feature to have, but TiVo is no longer the trailblazer it was 4 years ago hardware wise and while the software is still pretty amazing, it could do with a specification boost going forward.

As OLD BOY said, streaming services are the future, and a more powerful, versatile box would allow the TiVo software to shine through again and help provide these services in a better way.
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