RE: Re: Tivo

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

FWIW, TiVo over here in the US is going downhill, and the reviews of
their current box, the Premier, are very mixed.  I've had one for little
over a year now, but I still use the non-HD interface (which is basically
the same as the UK Series 1 interface) as the HD interface is slow and
buggy.  Even if it is enabled, many of the deeper menus, beyond the 'now
playing' and season pass management are still low-def.

It's still the best option over here for most people, but, the 'it just
works' really no longer applies to them, it appears they rush stuff out the
door with very limited testing.  If you look at the TiVo forums, you'll see
they've still not been able to use the second core on the Premier CPU due
to some deep coding issues, but the result, obviously, is sluggish
performance.

On the up side, the iPad interface they just launched is actually pretty
good, but aside from that, there's been very, very few advances from the UK
TiVo I was using 10 years ago.

Pete

From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
domdevitto
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 11:01 AM
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Tivo



Not based on any secret or public knowledge, but I'd expect launch to the
unwashed masses 'real soon'. If you're interested, I'll call VM proto and
get yourself on the waiting list, as it's bound to be a big rush when it's
available to all.

FYI, just about every other employee seems to be thoroughly 'dogfooding'
the Tivo at home, and it's got nothing but great reviews.

And no, I'd also expect the device to not be 'yours', and tinkering with
the innards to be a breach of the Telco act., and the people that deal with
this kind of stuff at Virgin are security super-geniuses.

Dom
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Phillip Harris <phil@...<mailto:phil@...>> wrote:


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