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Things I like about my Premiere over Tivo HD: 1) HD menus, specifically the better season pass creation. 2) Better guide 3) More native apps 4) Picture-in-picture 5) 30 second skip 6) Crashes much less (Our HD was a refurb, though, so that was probably its problem) 7) The suggestion bar at the top; we actually have found shows through that. Things I don't like: 1) HD menus are slow. 2) Anything using the onscreen keyboard (Search, YouTube) is interminably slow, to the point that I avoid using it. 3) Really, there's no justification for this slow of an interface. 4) Pretty underwhelming for five years worth of development.
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traveling midget posted:Once TiVo debuts the Android app things will be better. It seemingly runs instantly, minus hanging here and there, and you can navigate menus literally 10x faster than on the device itself. The iOS app is actually pretty good. If only somehow they could make the onscreen channel guide that nice.
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Aug 28, 2011 05:09
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Golbez posted:5) 30 second skip 5. You can get that on all the Tivos, you just have to push the right button combo if you can't do it through the menu. 6. My Series 3 has never crashed but my premier has, at least a half dozen times. When it first came out, I had to use SD menus because HD would make it crash. Since then, it poops out when doing Youtube or Netflix and I have to restart it to get it working right again. I've been a customer since the Series 2 and I remember the big yearly updates that seemed to happen while the premier basically gets poo poo. There was the one that stopped making the HD menus crash so much but that was about it. Aren't we still supposed to get some update to enable the second cpu or something? And it's been how long since this thing came out?
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Aug 28, 2011 05:51
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From what I read the rumor is they have given up on that.
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Aug 28, 2011 14:33
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http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2011-08/new-directv-tivo-launches-next-month/ Wow, so after all this wait, it looks like their DirecTV box is based on 2008 hardware and has the old style UI. No multi-room viewing and incompatible with the multiroom features of any DirecTV boxes you already might have (at least that part is understandable). It seems like this might snag some people who really liked their old DirecTV TiVo boxes but gave them up for the new MPEG-4 encoded HD channels, but feature-wise how is this going to compete with anything else today?
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Aug 28, 2011 15:15
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It's dependent on TiVo brand loyalty, which at one time was very strong but is eroding.
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http://www.solidsignal.com/p/?p=3823&utm_campaign=email_tivobanner&utm_medium=email&utm_source=banner&location=01 Pay $9.99/month for a Premiere if you only use it for OTA with an antenna. Plug in a CableCard and your price doubles to the usual $19.99.
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Tivo Premiere Elite Q Hyper Fighting announced: http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/07/quad-tuner-tivo-premier-elite-dvr-thx-certified-2tquad-tuner-dvr-2tb-recording-space/ I'd hope this would come with a software update that fixes some of the problems (season pass creation taking forever, HDUI being sloooow), but I'm not holding my breath. Also waiting to see if they'll allow Lifetime transfers for cheaper.
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Deathlove posted:Tivo Premiere Elite Q Hyper Fighting announced: http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/07/quad-tuner-tivo-premier-elite-dvr-thx-certified-2tquad-tuner-dvr-2tb-recording-space/ I'm still hoping that the Preview would get a retail release.
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Deathlove posted:I'd hope this would come with a software update that fixes some of the problems (season pass creation taking forever, HDUI being sloooow), but I'm not holding my breath. I'd really love to know what Tivo's development process is like because I have never seen another company be this slow on updating their software, ever.
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qirex posted:It's only been 6 months! Don't ever buy a Samsung phone.
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Sep 8, 2011 01:32
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Aatrek posted:Don't ever buy a Samsung phone.
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It seems okay to me, but I only recently got a premiere. My primary complaints are 1) why isn't everything in hd and 2) why the gently caress are there some options that just don't exist with hdui enabled. Speed of things generally seems the same or better than the HD it replaced.
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Dogen posted:It seems okay to me, but I only recently got a premiere. My primary complaints are 1) why isn't everything in hd and 2) why the gently caress are there some options that just don't exist with hdui enabled. Speed of things generally seems the same or better than the HD it replaced. What doesn't exist with hdui enabled?
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Golbez posted:What doesn't exist with hdui enabled? Uh... when I was setting mine up, there were like two menu options that simply didn't exist with the HDUI enabled. I think one of them was removing the netflix account I had accidentally set it up with? There was another more important thing I can't remember off the top of my head.
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I thought the grand unified search of amazon TV, netflix, TV listings, etc was only in the HD UI. It was slow and unusable anyway though so I never cared.
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kitten smoothie posted:I thought the grand unified search of amazon TV, netflix, TV listings, etc was only in the HD UI. It was slow and unusable anyway though so I never cared. I like how on my premier, I set one of the search settings to only free movies and yet it still shows stuff that's only available by paying.
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So I finally left the 90s and had cablecards/tuning adapters installed in my two Premieres this week. I keep reading horror stories about TiVos losing their cablecard provisioning. I assume these are weird edge cases? The guy from Charter who did the install seemed to not know jack about cablecards so I hope everything won't go south.
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Oct 10, 2011 04:34
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My cablecard has remained provisioned for at least four years now.
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kitten smoothie posted:So I finally left the 90s and had cablecards/tuning adapters installed in my two Premieres this week. Edge cases, I imagine. Never had a problem with that. Two Tivos, about six cable cards (went from two S to one M, had an S die, replaced, etc.) and never had one lose provisioning.
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I was worried I jinxed myself here because today of course I have cablecard problems temporarily. One of the TiVos was reporting no tuning adapter was connected at all and wouldn't pull in any channels. The other had the "Tuning Adapter Detected" screen on it when I turned on the TV, as if it lost the TA earlier today and it came back. That TiVo pulled in all the channels I was paying for and everything was working fine. I power cycled the tuning adapter and it seemed to have come back, so I'm chalking this up to something on the cable company's end if both tuning adapters crapped out today.
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Tuning Adapters occasionally just randomly blink out, but I've never had mine go totally bad forever in a year of using them. My various cablecards over the last 4ish years have been consistently fine. I was browsing the tivo community forums today to find the TWC cablecard 800 number since my local unit wanted to do a truck roll (I called them like a month ago and after struggling for a few minutes they figured it out, guess it just depends on the person) and I was reading up on the Elite. Seems like with the Elite they doubled the RAM and enabled the second processor, so maybe we'll see dual core support finally trickle down to the regular Premiere soon?
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Oct 13, 2011 00:38
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Not sure if it's an existing feature or not, but there is currently testing on Premiere boxes for Hulu Plus.
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traveling midget posted:Not sure if it's an existing feature or not, but there is currently testing on Premiere boxes for Hulu Plus. It was actually released back in May for Premiere. http://pr.tivo.com/easyir/customrel.do?easyirid=CA934452BA6418EF&version=live&prid=759249&releasejsp=custom_150 Or do you mean Series 3 boxes? I'd like that.
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Yeah that was a bit of an incentive to grab a couple premieres for me, though one of the boxes was prone to random reboots and one had a busted hdmi board, so they needed to to anyway.
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I heard that the Tivo Android app is getting delayed because of issues with Series 4 DVRs, S4 are going to get a firmware update after more testing.
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traveling midget posted:I heard that the Tivo Android app is getting delayed because of issues with Series 4 DVRs, S4 are going to get a firmware update after more testing. In the meantime, I've found Tivo Commander to be a very good app. Looking forward to a system update as well.
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Any idea what the S4 update will be about?
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Aatrek posted:Any idea what the S4 update will be about? WiFi discoverability
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I heard the TiVo Android app just hit Release Candidate phase. Might be public soon.
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If I buy a Tivo Premiere, can I use it without paying anything to Tivo as long as I schedule all my recordings based on date and time? I understand I won't have any on screen guide or anything like that, I only plan on using it with an OTA antenna so it's not a big deal to me. Can I do this (I'm pretty sure I could back in the day with the old series 2 models), or do these models need to be activated through Tivo before I can do anything with them? EDIT: Also, if I do this, will I still be able to use Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, and Amazon Video On Demand? Or are those all done through Tivo's servers? EDIT2: And, if I CAN'T do this, is there a box that will allow me to do this? OldSenileGuy fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Jan 3, 2012 |
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OldSenileGuy posted:If I buy a Tivo Premiere, can I use it without paying anything to Tivo as long as I schedule all my recordings based on date and time? I understand I won't have any on screen guide or anything like that, I only plan on using it with an OTA antenna so it's not a big deal to me. Nope, you will only be able to trickplay live TV, if even that. The old Series 1 models would do this but nothing made in the last 10 years works that way, according to TiVo. http://support.tivo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/18 For streaming you may as well get a Roku for 50 bucks and find some other way to record stuff.
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traveling midget posted:I heard the TiVo Android app just hit Release Candidate phase. Might be public soon. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tivophone.android Also they're starting to push a UI overhaul and when it's fully pushed out they will be turning on streaming between Premieres on the same network rather than just the old-school MRV show transferring. http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2012-01/tivo-begins-massive-premiere-update/
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kitten smoothie posted:https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tivophone.android Nice. I heard they're testing the app on 7+" tablets now.
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kitten smoothie posted:https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tivophone.android My TiVo Premiere's software is still dated from October 2011. Hopefully this new UI upgrade hits soon; I'm still running the 'Classic' version because the HDUI is so slow.
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The official Android app is in the Market now.
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Aatrek posted:The official Android app is in the Market now. It has been, since the 6th. See traveling midget's post.
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So the Premiere has the same Netflix UI as my HD? AKA no queue only, no grouping by season, no showing which have been watched, etc.?
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qirex posted:So the Premiere has the same Netflix UI as my HD? AKA no queue only, no grouping by season, no showing which have been watched, etc.? Exactly. It's the same old interface as when it first came out. Don't forget, no searching either.
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Hey, wait! A thing happened!quote:CES 2012 is jam-packed with smart TVs of every size and shape, but you won't find TiVo amongst the fray: the original DVR company is holding quiet meetings in its usual private booth tucked above the show floor. We stopped by a for a visit and were treated to a demonstration of a very interesting external transcoder box that lets you stream anything on your DVR to the TiVo iPad app when you're on your home network, and download shows to watch offline or away from home. The box is just a prototype right now — it might not look like anything like this when it comes out — but TiVo says it'll work on any network fast enough to support the TiVo Premiere's new multiroom streaming feature. In practice, the prototype worked well; we streamed a show from the TiVo across the room without any hiccups.
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