TiVo : Multiroom streaming ... who's ready?

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by muppetman11

Thanks for the info guys , anyone got it working via homeplugs ?

Many people have, but it can be tricky to get the TiVos to see each other with some types of homeplug. Apparently rebooting both/all TiVos at the same time resolves it. Also be aware that on any connection type it can take a few minutes for the TiVos to find each other.

edit: Ooh, 5000 posts.

[WillPS]

Is it just me that sees this whole thing as a massive damp squib?

Back when I was still a VM customer, TiVo was being hyped up. It took seemingly forever to arrive (so long that I had actually moved away and moved back to a cabled area), and when it did it lacked some of the features that it had been hyped for (streaming to other boxes included).

Now, 2 years on, the big launch - and it only works between TiVo boxes (so is of much less use than it would have been had it worked with V HD boxes as was stated), and it only works with a scattering of channels, including very few in the 1xx range.

It's stuff like this that keeps me a paying Sky customer.

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by WillPS

Back when I was still a VM customer, TiVo was being hyped up. It took seemingly forever to arrive...

It took exactly one year.

(so long that I had actually moved away and moved back to a cabled area), and when it did it lacked some of the features that it had been hyped for (streaming to other boxes included).

So you think they should have delayed the launch ever further?

Now, 2 years on, the big launch

As I said, it was one year.

- and it only works between TiVo boxes

1. Did they ever say anything else?
2. You can also now stream some channels to other devices.
3. More on the way this year.

(so is of much less use than it would have been had it worked with V HD boxes as was stated)

1. Where was this stated?
2. It may well do when these boxes have the Tivo software put on them.

, and it only works with a scattering of channels, including very few in the 1xx range.

More to be added this year.

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Originally Posted by WillPS

It's stuff like this that keeps me a paying Sky customer.

And there we have your real reason for posting

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

More to be added this year.

There cutting it dam close and there is a network freeze so how are they going to add them

[carlwaring]

Sorry. Meant "next year" of course.

And when you're perfect, Sirius, then you can start mocking me

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

Sorry. Meant "next year" of course.

And when you're perfect, Sirius, then you can start mocking me

I was correct so whats the problem

[carlwaring]

And there's no chance it was a typo then? You just had to make fun instead of simply pointing out the error?

[muppetman11]

I'm sorry Carl but one of the main reasons of multiroom streaming is to enable users to stream their DVR recordings around the home without the need for a PVR in every room , in the US its known commonly as 'Whole home DVR'. I agree with your point hopefully streaming to the VHD will be part of their future roadmap especially considering collections now include a TIVO and a VHD box.

[passingbat]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

It took exactly one year.


So you think they should have delayed the launch ever further?


As I said, it was one year.


1. Did they ever say anything else?
2. You can also now stream some channels to other devices.
3. More on the way this year.


1. Where was this stated?
2. It may well do when these boxes have the Tivo software put on them.


More to be added this year.

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And there we have your real reason for posting

Come on Carl; anyone who who believes that the selection of channels available for MRS is anything but utterly dissapointing, is looking at it through rose coloured glasses (and that is the diplomatic way of saying what I mean).

MRS was potentially a great USP for VM, and currently because of the limited channel selection, it is pretty insignificant.

[Doz007]

I've not been keeping up with ten MRS lauch, what channels do work at the moment?

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by passingbat

Come on Carl; anyone who who believes that the selection of channels available for MRS is anything but utterly dissapointing, is looking at it through rose coloured glasses (and that is the diplomatic way of saying what I mean).

MRS was potentially a great USP for VM, and currently because of the limited channel selection, it is pretty insignificant.

I agree, which is why I didn't argue the point.

[muppetman11]

Originally Posted by Doz007

I've not been keeping up with ten MRS lauch, what channels do work at the moment?

These

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35513129-post110.html

[WillPS]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

It took exactly one year.


So you think they should have delayed the launch ever further?

As I said, enough time for me to move away and move back. And are you taking the date from which ex-TiVo customers were contacted, or the general release, which was IIRC about 4 months later?

Originally Posted by carlwaring

As I said, it was one year.

I meant between the launch of TiVo and the launch of multiroom streaming, which is almost 2 years since the launch of TiVo, and more than that since the functionality was first promised.

Originally Posted by carlwaring

1. Did they ever say anything else?
2. You can also now stream some channels to other devices.
3. More on the way this year.


1. Where was this stated?
2. It may well do when these boxes have the Tivo software put on them.

Virgin Media and/or their representatives definitely stated that streaming to V HD boxes would be possible. I'm not going to trawl through the archives on here and through various interviews and press releases - if you don't remember these then either you don't read this board as much as your post count suggest or you have memory issues.

Originally Posted by carlwaring

And there we have your real reason for posting

No, the crux of my post was very well summarised by you yourself in the end of your original reply:

Originally Posted by carlwaring

More to be added this year.

And therein lies the problem - and it did for the 10 or so years I was with NTL and Virgin cumulatively. Vague promises which are as often as not not kept or not what they're expected to be.

HD Channels? We'll get some 'soon'.
Piracy making broadband unusable? We're clamping down 'next year'.
Addition of channels x,y,z? 'In discussions'.
A fix for the bug that causes V+ boxes to be unusable between midnight and 1am? We're working on it.


The shocking truth, Carl, is that I left as a loyal Virgin Media customer, and begrudgingly joined Sky as the other half wanted more than the limited Freeview offer available.

On 'the dark side' you actually get stuff, if not straight away then in a reasonable amount of time. A couple of examples:
Anytime content for non Sky Broadband customers, promised late-Winter 2012, delivered Spring 2012.
Sky+HD firmware improvements (not that there was much wrong with the old one), promised spring 2012, arrived summer 2012.

This is before you go in to all the useful legacy features Sky+ have which Virgin have never and will never bother[ed] with, like magic eye support.

Dare I mention Sky Atlantic? Oh I just did.

So yeah, occasionally I stop by when I have thoughts about rejoining, and it doesn't take long for me to realise what a frustrating experience it was most of the time.

[carlwaring]

Originally Posted by WillPS

I meant between the launch of TiVo and the launch of multiroom streaming, which is almost 2 years since the launch of TiVo...

Okay. I also I owe you an apology. I have just checked my bills which show I have had my Tivo nearly two years now Really thought it was only one year! How time flies

Virgin Media and/or their representatives definitely stated that streaming to V HD boxes would be possible.

And it will, eventually....

...you have memory issues.

This

Originally Posted by WillPS

Dare I mention Sky Atlantic? Oh I just did.

Which Sky won't let anyone have; not just VM.

[howardmicks]

Originally Posted by carlwaring

Okay. I also I owe you an apology. I have just checked my bills which show I have had my Tivo nearly two years now Really thought it was only one year! How time flies


And it will, eventually....


This


Which Sky won't let anyone have; not just VM.

Sky will let vm have it but vm have stopped investing in high quality channels especially hd for freesat channels and foreign channels and of course +1 channel.the main focus is price increases,poor version of sky active and worse selection of streaming channels between tivos and iPads ever