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TiVo's Latest Offering Detects and Skips Ads, Adds 4K Capability
As described by The Verge, the newest generation of TiVo is in some ways a step backward: it comes with fewer tuners than some earlier models, and less storage as well. However, two big features that distinguish the company's new Bolt DVR may entice users anyhow: it adds 4K recording, and (probably of use to more people, given the scarcity of 4K content, not to mention its file size) also can recognize and skip commercials, a feature that users have sorely missed as a mainstream feature in standalone DVRs for quite a while. (And it's possible that broadcasters will come up with a way to kill the commercial-skip function as they did with Dish's AutoHop.)
One year is $150 that $360 is probably for the lifetime. Also the bolt comes with 1 year included.
Correct on the yearly plan. However for the lifetime plan it's worse than that. The lifetime (All-In) plan is $600: https://support.tivo.com/articles/Essential_Summary/TiVo-Payment-Plans-and-Policies
The Bolt unit itself is another $300, so the total pricetag for a lifetime TiVo setup comes to $900.
Not sure what they're fine print says, but I still have an original Tivo series 2 from 2001 with a lifetime subscription, and they still honor it with schedule updates and occasional software updates even after I've moved several times.
It's hooked to an old analog over-the-air TV with a digital TV converter, and the Tivo controls the converter just fine via its remote control sensor. It's impressive the number of channels available free with digital over-the-air, compared to the old analog, with hundreds of future program selections at any time. Obscure old sci-fi movies playing at 3am and so on that I'd never be aware of otherwise.
Of course I have the commercial skip hack programmed in. Unlike the newer Tivos where the hack just fast-forwards for 30 seconds, the old Tivo instantly skips 30 seconds ahead, which I find much nicer.
Fixed link.
My theory, which goes for the PS3 as well: it stops you putting any other device neatly on top of it, making it seem more awesome (hopefully to your Tivo-less friends who come over) thanks to it being at the top of the stack.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
The lifetime of the DVR. So until it breaks outside of the warranty period or becomes outmoded.
https://www.tivo.com/buytivo/popups/popup_servicePlans.html
"their" not "they're".
Don't worry about him - he's such a looser.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
MythTV is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License. I was under the impression that copyleft and CableCARD support were mutually exclusive. Or what am I missing?
MythTV has supported CableCARD and 4K for over a decade? Does it even support CableCARD tuners now?
I'd love that job. You get to watch TV and make an overwhelmingly positive contribution to the human experience.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.