Realistic TiVo Series 3 wishlist - Page 4

MikeMar · 09-27-2005, 10:06 AM

I think the upgradeable hard drive would make sense. They dont make money on hardware, so mine as well let us EASILY toss in one.

tweekerz · 09-28-2005, 11:31 PM

There are some great ideas mentioned.

I like the "already seen it" option, and the management of other networked Tivos.

Keep the ideas flowin'

Too bad this thread has no Tivo employee feedback!

Matt

Brian Siano · 10-03-2005, 10:15 AM

Okay, my first is to change the option of placing the scroll bar. Sometimes, I want to freeze-frame the credits of a show-- but the scroll bar obscure what I want to read. So, how about an option to place it at the top, middle, or bottom of the screen?

My second change is for closed-captioning. If I can't make out a line of dialogue, I have to _mute_ my TV and replay the section so the closed-captioning text pops up. But, if the _TiVo_ had an option of displaying the closed-captioning with the sound _on_, that'd be a neat feature.

MikeMar · 10-03-2005, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Brian Siano

Okay, my first is to change the option of placing the scroll bar. Sometimes, I want to freeze-frame the credits of a show-- but the scroll bar obscure what I want to read. So, how about an option to place it at the top, middle, or bottom of the screen?

Hit the clear button and the bar will disappear

tompage5640 · 10-05-2005, 11:01 AM

I apologize if this has been listed already, but I would like to see a password protect option set up to get into the "Now Playing" screen. This would be really useful for those of us with younger kids in the house.

rcobourn · 10-05-2005, 02:54 PM

Tivo already has good parental controls.. so the individual programs in your Now Playing last can be protected by setting limitations through the parental controls. Where this falls down, at the moment, is in programs brought over from a PC. A way to add Tivo compatible ratings to such files would be useful.

shouffrey · 10-20-2005, 02:33 PM

I am all for this box being easy to use for Grandma and the like, but I wanna tweak it, upgrade it, expand it. Give us a SATA Port, Firewire, cardslots, etc. Dual tuners all of it.

Simple, bulletproof.

Answer more than one model. How about the basic TiVo box which does nothing and is really easy to use.

Then a TiVo dock the basic box can sit on top of. Put all the ports and modular drive bays in the dock.

Tuners? As many as you want. Make them cards or boxes and stack them up 'till your heart's content.

And please, design all this so it still works when the next one comes out.

gregpg · 04-28-2006, 04:04 AM

Nothing posted here since last October but I suppose there's no point in creating a duplicate thread. My MINIMUM requirements for Series 3 (or whatever comes after series 2) are:

Dual ATSC tuners (dual NTSC would be nice also but will be useless in less than three years regardless) and either DVI or HDMI outputs.
Add the ability to play a stream of whatever is being displayed on the screen of an ethernet linked PC and whatever is being output through the PC's sound card. Allow the peanut to function as a rudimentary mouse (nav button to move pointer or replace with a trackball, thumbs up and thumbs down for left and right mouse buttons). This would allow ANY media played on the PC to be requested and streamed through the TiVo box without requiring the box to decode native media formats. To avoid IP issues, don't allow recording of streamed media.
Built in 10/100 ethernet to facilitate 2.
300 Mhz processor, 64 MB RAM to facilitate 2 and 3.
Allow external HDD -- would this be more than a software upgrade on current Series 2 units?

Regards,
Greg

classicsat · 04-28-2006, 12:15 PM

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Dual ATSC tuners (dual NTSC would be nice also but will be useless in less than three years regardless) and either DVI or HDMI outputs.

The demoed S3 does that

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Add the ability to play a stream of whatever is being displayed on the screen of an ethernet linked PC and whatever is being output through the PC's sound card.

Wait and see, but I doubt it would be doable to any usefulness.

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Built in 10/100 ethernet to facilitate 2.

The demoed S3 has that

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Allow external HDD -- would this be more than a software upgrade on current Series 2 units?

The demoed S3 does that. It remains to be seen if any eSata drive can be just plugged in, has to be formatted, or a special drive from TiVo.

wt6972 · 05-18-2006, 01:52 PM

My cable company currently offers a cable card, however they tell me I cannot get any pay per view if i go with the card. Will this hold true with the seris 3?

classicsat · 05-18-2006, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by wt6972

My cable company currently offers a cable card, however they tell me I cannot get any pay per view if i go with the card. Will this hold true with the seris 3?

So far, yes, as the S3 will have only support for one-way cards. PPV and other interactive features need bi-directional communication and user interface support, neither of which the industry iss nearly ready to launch.

megazone · 06-02-2006, 06:29 PM

Unless the cable company has an out-of-band method for ordering PPV - such as via their website or telephone. But even then it isn't certain the TiVo would be able to tune and decode those channels.