Indeed. I think when I bought mine it was below $200 with lifetime. Dont remember the particulars of the deal (found on slickdeals), but it was almost too good to be true.
Tivo vs Tablo
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TiVo is doing a pretty good job of not flooding the market with hardware. They know that the lifetime of today's OTA-capable TiVo is likely to be capped by the arrival of Next-Gen TV but if they play a little hard-to-get, interest will remain.
I find them to be as good as any grid-based system I've used. (keeping in mind the programming is coming via the web and will take a moment to start streaming like anything else.)
Hope that helps!
Given that few know what pay TV services you've used, a number of seconds would be much more useful.
Early reports were 15-30 seconds.
10 seconds can seem like an eternity; especially when you're live streaming.
The advantage used to go to analog OTA with consistently instant channel changes.
So much speculation about technology that hasn't really been put to real-world application. It should go farther, be more resistant to interference of all kinds and should make every day shinier than the day before.
I don't imply that it can't be what they promise it to be. I do insist that simulations and models are just that and how things go down is subject to considerable modification.
Can we please get a stopwatch reading? I mean, for example, the Xfinity X1 feels slow changing channels. I'd say about 5 seconds maybe a bit more.
Honestly? Is this a race? If you folks are that picky about changing channels, you're far above my league in being particular about electronics.
I'm sorry if the world isn't fast enough for some of you and that you need that kind of "rating" to decide on something.
No, I'm not going to bother. I'm happy with the Tablo, it's served me well for many years, and splitting hairs over a few seconds is not what I do on this site.
Sorry, Guys.
I'm sorry if the world isn't fast enough for some of you and that you need that kind of "rating" to decide on something.
No, I'm not going to bother. I'm happy with the Tablo, it's served me well for many years, and splitting hairs over a few seconds is not what I do on this site.
Sorry, Guys.
Believe me, I'm not above anyone when it comes to electronics and I don't even watch broadcast TV but the wife does and yeah, she is picky. If I get her a slow DVR, I'll never, ever, hear the end of it and then I'll end up throwing myself off the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Sorry. normally I'd jump to help another member here, really I would...and most who know me would agree..but when it's something as silly as a second or three load time I can't believe anyone, even your wife would be that worried or petty. If that's the criteria for buying something, for God's sake, take her to a bestbuy or similar, put the remote in her hand and let her decide. I'm not going to be part of something that minute. Can't nail down a reason myself except that I fight much bigger fights as a broadcaster every day, especially lately and when I finish my day, I'm GRATEFUL for the technology in my Tablo. Load time was never an issue for me. (and, it depends on factors like your internet speed in-home and the signal strength of the TV signal received.)
Good luck to your wife, and to you. I hope whatever you decide to own doesn't land you on a divorce court TV show.
Good luck to your wife, and to you. I hope whatever you decide to own doesn't land you on a divorce court TV show.
The moral of the story folks, is don't get married.
It doesn't matter now anyway, I'm taking the leap and I'm taking the X1 box with me. Tell Comcast they can go after my wife for the unreturned equipment fees. So long cruel world! Geronimo...
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A second or three isn't an issue but if it is 15-30 seconds as some had observed, that's nuts.
It's ON again, jump QUICKLY if you want one for $290.15! This is for OTA tv only, which means you need an antenna for your local channels. Amazon product ASIN B078HS8386
P.S. You can drop in up to a 3TB drive, and it'll format and set itself up with no further work. You can go even higher (if you got guts to go more than 3TB), after running a small utility available at a link at MFS Reformatter (mfsr)
P.S. You can drop in up to a 3TB drive, and it'll format and set itself up with no further work. You can go even higher (if you got guts to go more than 3TB), after running a small utility available at a link at MFS Reformatter (mfsr)
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You can also add an after market cable card adapter and use it on a cable system. The adapters were $35 on eBay the last time I looked.
Pull the cable card bracket out of any cable ready Roamio or Bolt and put it in the Roamio OTA and it becomes cable ready. Just redo setup for cable instead of OTA once you have a cable card. I’ve done it in 2 of mine.
There are a couple of aftermarket brackets that can work as the OEM TiVo bracket is hard to find, other than in old tivos.
I have a bad cable tuner in one of my Roamios, so I took the bracket out and put it in the OTA Roamio and made it my cable dvr and the other with the bad cable tuner became OTA only.
My sister has a Bolt which came with one of Service, when that one year had expired, we got a cheap Roamio OTA with lifetime on sale and swapped the bracket in and made it her cable dvr.
The Roamio and Bolts can do cable or OTA. The only difference between a Roamio OTA and Roamio Basic is the cable card bracket. Everything else is the same
Tuners are already built in to the dvr. Bracket is just a metal credit card size bracket that holds the cable card and allows it to connect to the data pins.
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