TiVo : General TiVo Discussion Part 2

[Gavin-D]

Been looking on the VM H&S Forums and i came accross this,

There is also an unconfirmed rumour that TiVo had the red button functionality 10 months ago when it was first being trialled, and the BBC changed the license agreement which meant it was withdrawn again.

And this

As I've said in a separate post, the introduction of new features to TiVo planned for the second half of this year will not come all in a single update.

I just hope to set expectations because it seems that a rumour has been heavily perpetuated on this board that there is one all encompassing update to come. In actuality, there will be a large update, but other feature updates will follow very soon after this update (as their introduction had the update itself as a dependency).

Nick
Nick Ontiveros
TV Strategy, Digital Entertainment

Both of the above statments are with regards to the sky sports red button and bbc interactive

[denphone]

Lets just hope we just get the Sky Sports red button, BBC interactive and the reminders function by the end of the year and do not have to wait well into next year for it.

[devilincarnate]

Just spotted this on the web a TiVo loving dog?

[devilincarnate]

Just spotted this and some are not happy with the new Tivo box in the US?

Can somebody tell TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO ) that this isn't an arms race anymore?

The DVR pioneer introduced the TiVo Premiere Elite yesterday, and the specs are juicy. The new $499 box has four tuners, allowing owners to record four different shows while they watch a fifth. Storage has been bumped up to a beefy two terabytes, which is essentially enough space to save 300 hours of high-def television.

This all sounds great until you remember that it's not 2001 anymore. It's 2011, and couch potatoes just don't think that way.

Who needs to records four shows at once? We live in streaming times, where content is available on demand. What are the chances that there will be four things on live that you will ultimately want to watch anyway?

Storage? I get it. Data keeps getting cheaper. Seagate (NYSE: STX ) just introduced a four-terabyte external drive at an attractive $250 price point.

Still, this is a DVR, and we're living in the era of cloud computing. Who needs to save shows when Hulu or Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX ) or the broadcaster itself will gladly serve it up for you later? If you can fill your TiVo with 300 hours of high-def content then you don't need a Premiere Elite: You need a vacation.

Obviously TiVo isn't dumb. Its boxes also do a lot of the streaming extracurricular work that set-top boxes have to do these days. However, when you pair an expensive DVR with a costly subscription plan, TiVo's value proposition is just out of touch.

This isn't some anecdotal rant. The numbers prove it. TiVo may have posted better-than-expected quarterly results two weeks ago, but we're still talking about another profitless showing. More importantly, TiVo continues to shed net subscribers. TiVo had 1.93 million cumulative subscriptions at the end of July, 33,000 fewer TV buffs than it watched over just three months earlier and a whopping 456,000 plunge over the past year.

What does it tell you when the specs get bigger but the couch potato count gets smaller? If you're that one person that's breezing through this article because you have four shows recording right now that you want to see later, you need to get out more.

Oh, and while you're there, take TiVo with you.

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[zantarous]

Can't really agree with any of that, why would you not want 2TB? Not everything is available on demand.

Why wouldn't you want 4 tuners? There is quite a few times during the week where there are three tuners active on my box, I say why stop at 4 why not 6 or 8 then everyone can have a tuner of their own in the household?

The guy just sound like the usual idiot who wants to spout of and be negative for the sake of it.

[denphone]

l certainly would not mind having 4 tuners as l record a fair bit and several times l have had to miss a recording out because of clashes.

[Pbryanw]

Also more hard-drive space means more room for TiVo suggestions. And four tuners means more suggestions can be recorded at the same time. Just depends whether you use this service a lot.

I'm quite happy with my 500GB TiVo, but I'm the only one who uses it. I can see that those with families (and especially large ones), the more hard-drive space for programmes, the better.

[GrimUpNorth]

Had Tivo a few days and enjoying it. First 'Tivo' Grand Prix this weekend and not having much time I like to record and watch qualifying in FF. With the V+ a small graphic in bottom left showed FF speed. With Tivo when in FF there's a bar across the whole lower screen - which obscures the laptimes!! A step backwards?

Cheers
Grim

[zantarous]

Its not a step backward it is just different, the bar lets you skip to the white strips with one button press. Also the bar is used when watching a buffered recording so you can see what time it started.

[arcimedes]

It is very annoying as most programmes that have information on progress such as tennis scores are obscured. It would improve matters if the transparency of the bar could be changed or you could choose where it went.

[spj20016]

Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth

Had Tivo a few days and enjoying it. First 'Tivo' Grand Prix this weekend and not having much time I like to record and watch qualifying in FF. With the V+ a small graphic in bottom left showed FF speed. With Tivo when in FF there's a bar across the whole lower screen - which obscures the laptimes!! A step backwards?

Cheers
Grim

Press the Clear button (bottom right on remote) while Fast Forwarding and the bar will clear while it continues to Fast Forward. Hope this helps.

[pythagoras]

Originally Posted by spj20016

Press the Clear button (bottom right on remote) while Fast Forwarding and the bar will clear while it continues to Fast Forward. Hope this helps.

You mean bottom left

[devilincarnate]

[andy_m]

On the VM Tivo box there are four lights next to the record button. In the guide it says one of these is light 11, a downloading light which is supposed to show blue when a download is in progress. However, in the picture accompanying this text the light is clearly red, and I did wonder if a fourth tuner was a possibility on this box at some point in the future?

Thanks spj20016, btw, great tip.

[spj20016]

Originally Posted by pythagoras

You mean bottom left

Sorry, I didn't have remote to hand at the time of posting.