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TiVo Series 5 Coming This Fall

Posted by timothy on from the are-there-even-six-bladed-razors-yet? dept.

WebGangsta writes "The rumor mill continues to grow closer and closer to reality, as The Verge is reporting the upcoming SERIES 5 TiVo will have 6 tuners, support OTA recording (an old TiVo feature being brought back), storage beyond the 2TB limit, and more. While some would say that TiVo today is nothing more than a Patent Holder (albeit a successful one), there's still a market for a cable box that doubles as a streaming player. Is hardware the future of TiVo, or should they go and just license their software to all? And don't get us started on those 'TiVo Buying Hulu' or 'Apple/Google buying TiVo' rumors... that's a different story for a different day."

2 of 178 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Great, now I just need 6 cablecards by fruity_pebbles · · Score: 5, Informative

    "M" CableCards can decode 6 streams. You'll need only one for a Tivo with 6 tuners.

  2. It will take more than a new box by no_such_user · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dear Tivo,

    1) Lower your damn prices already! You'd have people beating down the doors if you'd lower your monthly fee to $5/month, and you'd still be making good money to boot!
    2) Stop treating your old customers as second-class citizens! The old Tivos work just fine, so why aren't you porting new features to these units? Even UI/UX improvements which take negligible CPU or memory usage are never implemented. Sure, there are a lot of lifetime account holders, but you're still collecting monthly fees on some of these, right?
    3) Integrate the "tuning adapter" for switched digital video to inside the Tivo. The fact that I need such a thing in the first place is ridiculous.
    4) Lower your damn prices already! $60 for a wireless G dongle? $90 for an N wireless bridge?! C'mon!
    5) What's the deal with CableCard, anyway? Are cable companies going to continue to support this? What about users of IP-based services, like AT&T's U-verse?
    6) Don't get me started on copy-protection...
    7) Lower your damn prices already! $5/mo -- it's worth repeating!

    Thanks,
    Me