I’m, obviously, super disappointed those apps got canned. The Tivo Mini works well, but it’s more expensive than most anything else, so would have been nice to be able to stream to cheaper devices.
TiVo just doesn’t get it...users don’t want a TiVo app for the Apple TV. They want an Apple TV app for the TiVo. Simplicity.
I’d like that, but nowhere near as much as apps for other streaming devices, which is immediately start using multiple times per day. And that’s not up to Tivo, while releasing those apps is.
Exactly. Why on Earth can't I watch Disney+ on my TiVo yet?
because Disney hasn’t released it. They weren’t even going to support firetv until the last minute, so I wouldn’t hold my breath. It SHOULDbe supported fine on this Tivo streaming stick, but of course that doesn’t help those of us who actions their main product.
They need to understand that cord cutters are not their market, and focus on those who still use Cable TV.
they already do support cable, sodon’t need to shift anything, and obviously “cord cutters” who care about tv are likely to own a Tivo, so it would be silly not to continue to support us.
No, people don’t like tv anymore, that’s so 1950s 🙄
Probably doesn't matter. People who want a TiVo already have one, and are slowly but surely coming to the realization that its time to start thinking about switching it out.
For what?
The interface has always been fast, and is still fast.
the lack of any on demand content, the lousy iOS app, the frozen in time app set
Not sure what the former means, the iOS app works great for me and always has, and while I’d like it to be better as a streaming device, that’s really incidental. I’d own it regardless of that..it’s a dvr, which is what I need. Sure it would be cool to not need a second device, but those can be literally $40 for a good one.
start using the services and over time just stop using the TiVo.
I’ve been using streaming services for over a decade, but it can’t decrease my need for a Tivo.
I started with a Series 2 and then went Series 3 HD, but once Comcast rolled out the X1 DVR, the service was stable enough that I used the TiVo less and less and finally just gave it away and never looked back. And with Comcast, hardware upgrades were (effectively) bundled into my bill (the X1 had four tuners whereas I would have had to buy a new TiVo Series 4 and a new subscription to get four tuners).
Which would have been both cheaper and better than renting Comcast’s nonsense.
I want to put my vote in for the TiVo app for Apple TV. As others have said, it would be nice to watch from other locations and not have to buy another TiVo device.
About time someone says it, geez,mtv hating people on here lol
I am curious about this TiVo stream, however.Would this be something like YouTube TV? Would it record shows in the cloud and allow us to watch from anywhere? That would certainly be way better than having the hardware!
It’s just another streaming box, like a Roku or firetv or Apple TV. It does use custom Tivo software, which might be nice, as might the Tivo-like remote (though the firetv and Roku remotes are fine).
it’s running on AndroidTV, making it the cheapest AndroidTV device from a “normal” name brand company, which might theoretically be an advantage, versus $150 for nvidia’s.
YouTube TV should run on it, and sling tv is integrated into the Tivo menu system out of the box (so theoretically other companies could do that too, but their apps should run regardless)
Damn. I was really hoping for the aTV app ... and a Bluetooth TiVo remote for the aTV.
oooooh, I like the Tivo remote for an Apple TV idea! That AppleTV remote is wrong on multiple levels, and a Tivo remote + that app would be awesome! Well...actually m come to think of it, you can use a Tivo IR remote with an Apple TV, which I’d be likely to do if I bought one!
The “we have to transcode” excuse is also BS. While it would be way more efficient to sling h.264 around the house than MPEG-2, the aTV has plenty of power to play MPEG-2...
It’s not entirely BS, apparently. Earlier they said they had to limit streams to these apps a bit to leave processing power for the mini’s, so maybe there’s just some weirdness there to be able to support different platforms simultaneously.
and I’m not sure if AppleTV could support MPEG-2 or not. Without hardware support it requires a lot of power (more than my iPad Air 2 comfortably has), and also I don’t know that Apple would even let them.
POSSIBLY the two newest FireTVs could just handle the mpeg-2 stream though, as they just got hardware mpeg-2 support, so maybe... which would be cool.
of course the bolt can already handle two streams to iOS devices quite well, and we already saw demos of these apps a year ago, so I don’t know why they can’t just support them at least at the level iOS does.
Why the heck does the TiVo have to transcode video before being able to stream it to other devices? The video is stored as a standard MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 transport stream that all the listed devices should be able to decode.
they have to because the devices they’d be streaming to can’t handle MPEG-2. The possible exception would be just the two newest fire TVs from last year, which added mpeg-2 support (though I have no idea if it would be easy to actually support that or not, plus it wouldn’t run on most firetvs then).
Hell, the older TiVo units (like the Roamio) have a far slower CPU and less memory than devices like the Apple TV.
yes, but unlike AppleTV, they support mpeg-2.
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TiVo is still a thing? I remember that from like decades ago but I can’t see why anyone would have it now....
why wouldn’t we? Did you think tv wasn’t a thing?
