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Originally Posted by Stuart
I suspect at least some of the Tivo's speed problems come from the use of Flash in it's interface, so, as long as Tivo and VM are willing to devote the manpower to minimising Flash use, we would get some speed increase.
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It doesn't properly have Flash since the 'plum' release when they dumped Adobe Air. While TiVo still uses the OpenFL Flash engine in the UI, all the Flash ActionScript was translated automatically into the Haxe language and compiled, so that now starts up quickly and runs fast.
The reason it is slower than it should be on the hardware it has is because the TiVo engineers hadn't finished optimising performance for the new architecture when Virgin got its last build in May 2015 and there hasn't been one since.
Maybe VM decided to cut back on how frequently they do releases of the TiVo software as part of their cost cutting and lack of interest in TV. Maybe there were complicated configuration management issues that made it difficult to bring in recent changes to the core TiVo software onto VM's version. Maybe it was something else...