Of course not! I only mentioned this one as it is one of many that will be offered in the future by 3rd party.
Other than replacement remotes and network adapters, what third party gear is popular for TiVo DVRs?
However the one that TIVO showed last year under development at NAB looks nearly identical to the Geniatech dongle.
Don't all TV tuner dongles look pretty similar? USB plug on one end and a F connector on the other.
Trade show mockups are quite often not showing what's going on behind the curtain and if I recall correctly, there was a full-fledged Linux-based computer (as opposed to a System on a Chip such as the TiVo DVRs use) involved in all the early working demos.
Here's a "private" demo that TiVo offered to Dave Zatz during NAB 2019 showing the setup:
The ATV dongle shown in the video bears a remarkable resemblance but appearances can be deceiving. Note that Ted Malone (VP of TiVo Products and Services) said that the TiVo tuner would be a "network tuner" (around 2:50) rather than a USB dongle as you've asserted. The video bears out most of the information and reasoning that I've shared in this thread.
When you can show me you are on the inside at TIVO and know what their plans are, I will just choose to ignore comments like this.
Until you can document TiVo's current plans either way, we'll disagree. I have done quite a bit of research into the progress of NEXTGEN TV and my opinions are based on that reasearch, not extrapolation of old news and examination of photographs. That you've seen something that you interpret as being similar to something they showed at a trade show doesn't mean much. We went through that earlier in the thread regarding what you thought you were seeing.
I like many of your offerings here but you have a habit of making statements about future developments you claim won't happen that are just not true. You have no crystal ball to predict what companies will or will not develop based on your personal opinions.
I'm not claiming that NextGen TV won't happen on a TiVo. I am reasoning that it isn't coming soon as there's no conventional content to view outside of the Phoenix model market and likely won't be a big push until stations start lighting up in the largest markets. Whether you get your content via DTV or NEXTGEN TV isn't going to make much difference until the DTV content goes SD.
Let's not forget that the vast majority of OTA viewing comes via cable TV so we're not talking about a product that us currently used by a little more than 20% of the market for linear broadcast network television. Reason and Physics must apply in all things.
Fox did release back in September they had Phoenix as the first test broadcast and had many problems discovered in that first test. Today they claim 30 stations are up and running with UHD transmission.
I (as well as anyone else who is monitoring NEXTGEN TV) would like to see documentation on this. As far as I can tell, there are only two Fox affiliates operating a NEXTGEN broadcast. I would have thought that something of this magnitude would have made news at CES, on the ATSC website or at TV Technology's ATSC 3.0 silo. I've not seen any claims anywhere of a single US UHD broadcast (the TiVo demo used a local computer and a modulator dongle to get closed-circuit UHD) and I reason that even a test of such a broadcast would be newsworthy.
Let's be absolutely clear that broadcasting a NEXTGEN TV signal does not equate to offering a UHD feed. A UHD broadcast would require that most (if not all) subchannels would need to be shut down during the broadcast due to bandwidth constraints.
I'm pretty sure this upfront cost was considerably higher than the Dish Hopper 3 plus one Joey replacement, but would the Hopper 3 be able to work without weather problems?
I wonder if your weather problems couldn't have been substantially addressed with a service call.
