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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I wasn't suggesting we should have a new box annually, but you could not have failed to notice the frustration many feel about Tivo speeds.
I assume that the VM Tivo is slow because it doesn't have sufficient memory to perform its many tasks.
If that is the case, it does rather show a lack of foresight. Hopefully, they will get this right with the new box and assume in its design that it will carry a range of streaming services as well as enabling us to save our programme preferences to the Cloud.
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The development cycle for cable service boxes is around five years (apparently Tivo themselves have a 3 year cycle, but it obviously takes longer to implement Tivo software for VM requirements.)
It's processor speeds that improve vastly in those years and make a 5 year old Tivo box slow compared to less complicated streamer boxes that can have the processor updated with each annual release (and doesn't have to do as much processing anyway).
And don't forget, when you complain about lack of over the top services on Tivo, when Tivo did launch on VM, it was the
only box around that did integrate standard PVR functionality with app activity.
If/when VM release a new box, speed wise it should be great, but at the end of it's life cycle people will be moaning once again that it's slow. Such is the nature of that kind of equipment, when people demand more and more functionality be added year by year to a box that won't have it's processing power updated for around five years.
I use Tivo purely as a PVR and it's speed is fine. For streaming and catchup services, for the reasons outlined above I don't expect Tivo, at this stage in it's life to be fast, so use inexpensive streamer boxes. But having said that, Tivo currently is still perfectly adequate for OTT services, providing you don't want really fast load times.