Plex isn't really designed to run on your daily driver (though it will). It is built around being run on something that's no longer in daily use which quite a home computer users few have.
Thats perhaps one of those "talk is cheap" moments. Maybe TiVo has finally realized that the streamer hardware companies don't provide the apps (although some provide a pretty slick framework); the content server (TiVo and their whole home DVR) is largely responsible for that.
Are you really comparing apples to apples here? Tablo and Silicon Dust don't need to concern themselves with such nasty details as digital rights management (raised when streaming apps are added to the DVR). Where TiVo goes over an above the typical OTA DVR is perhaps a whole different level of complexity and coordination.
How is it not a whole home DVR? Ever since the mini's came out they've been that with their 4-tuner DVR's.
It is, I think he was talking about the app they said was coming for Roku and the like that would let that function as your extra box in some capacity.
Yeah that was one feature I was looking forward to as well. I didnt feel like running cable or ethernet to the other tvs and I already had the rokus and fire tvs. Not a huge deal, but it would have been nice had they followed through. Got a feeling that it wasnt coming though when there was the announcement and then basically nothing else said.
You probably wouldn't be amazed if you were knew that it took over five years for TiVo to come up with a DVR for Comcast and that DIRECTV's THR22, announced in 2008 and based on the soon-to-be-replaced HR22, was introduced two years after (2011) DIRECTV had released their HR23 DVR (2009).
Does having used or even owning a Tablo make one intimately familiar with what goes on under the hood between the DVR and the streamer? [rhetorical question]
Perhaps you're looking at this through Tablo tinted glasses. The Tablo requires streaming for all viewers. TiVo takes one of those connections off your network by using an HDMI cable to deliver HDR UHD with Dolby Atmos audio. This may make the difference in the event that your network is comprised of MoCA or slower Wi-fi connected devices.
That is what he means Don. Tivo does not offer an app for those devices (and other streaming STBs), and even after saying it was coming, they still cant seem to make any headway in making it a reality.
The MOCA feature allowed me not to run any wires. I just used the coax that was already ran to every room.
How is that any different than a mini? It's still a piece of hardware plugged into the tv's hdmi port.
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To me it’s different (or would have been a plus) because I already have Rokus at the tvs. I’d have had to buy minis. I would imagine many are far more likely to have rokus laying about than minis .
. So if your tv can install android apps, then no hardware would be needed. So again, what difference is there?
I've used the iphone app, as well as the PC app to stream recordings when on business travel.
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