Initial impressions and details of the TiVo Premiere Elite

A quick update: For anyone who was affected by the issue, we have gone ahead and deactivated their Netflix account this morning. So once you reactivate your unit, it will stream normally.

If you see any issues, please let me know.

Best,
Stephen

 

Thanks again to you and your team for finding the root cause and correcting this.

Can you share any insight into when the Amazon application will be updated to support Prime streaming?

Have you thought about perhaps building a separate application just to accomplish Prime streaming and leaving the basic Amazon app as-is if updating it is too complex?

 

+1 to Prime Streaming.

 

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Just had a spontaneous reboot. Not cool!!!

 

Worked for me!

 

Sorry for the stupid question and thanks for this forum. I have been using DirectTivo for seven years and just switched to TWC and the Elite. I have Netflix streaming but I only see the Watch Instantly ability on the Elite. Where is the "Search" function to search Netflix to find movies to watch?

 

Ha. You only have access to your queue with the tivo netflix app. There are probably 1000 threads complaining about the tivo netflix app and its inferiority to roku and other boxes. It doesn't bother me though - I like the fact that I can put movies in the queue for my kids and they can easily access them.

 

Well, looks like it worked! MOCA is back and so far all ( still working after 24 hours) the SDV channels are working and recording.
To verify, I put it back to standard (with output of TA feeding the input to Elite) and the MOCA would not work. So the split input is the way to go unless some problem crops up later.

 

Not a stupid question at all...

Netflix search in integrated directly into your TiVo search. Search for any show or movie, if it is available on Netflix, Blockbuster, Amazon or live TV the TiVo will show those results and allow you to play instantly.

You can limit your search results by filtering only the services you want to return (say Netflix but not Blockbuster) in the settings.

 

This is of course only if you are using the HDUI as you should be.

If you choose to stick with the SDUi, you can only browse your queue.

 

That's the problem. For the next few months I'm stuck using the SDUI until I move the Elite over to my new guest house. I thought Netflix on the Elite would at least be as sophisticated as my Roku. Appreciate the information.

 

When I went to the Amazon site to register the Elite, the most current TIVO listed was the Premier - is the Amazon App and Amazon Prime different?? Does Prime work with the Elite?

TIA

 

The Elite is a Premiere.

Yes, Amazon Prime (streaming) is different than the paid download service. It does not work with the TiVo (at this time).

 

Thanks sooooo much!!! So Amazon's VOD service WILL work - but not PRIME!!!

Thanks for not making me feel like a complete moron. . (seriously appreciated).

The 2 issues were

Premier and Elite are the same

Prime and Amazon Instant Video are different!!

Next step - stopping on the way home for a cablecard!!

 

The Netflix fix worked for me after deactivating the account. Thanks, TiVoStephen!

 

Just setup my new Elite (part of the second batch from Weaknees). Overall, very straightforward. A few observations/thoughts:

- No setup issues. Netflix seems to work fine "out of box" now. Thanks to the early adopters and TivoStephen for working it out for the rest of us!
- The Verizon FIOS self-install for cablecards worked very well. Simple, anyone can do it, and it worked. Took 30 seconds of my time and about 15 minutes of waiting after entering the info on the website. One hitch - some of my channels not coming in, but a call to Verizon and 10 seconds on the line with the first rep I talked to had it fixed. MUCH better than a year and a half ago with the Premiere, which required a rep, four hours, and time off from work.
- Speed is on par with the Premiere, but maybe it's still indexing.

Very happy, so far. Haven't really pushed the box yet, but as long as I don't get hit with a bunch of reboots, things are working well.

 

does the elite support 3TB drives if expanded?

Anyone try it?


if not how reliable are the WD external drives?

 

Anyone else still having problems with Hulu? I can get to the main screen and it just says "loading" then exits out to the tivo screen.

Also, NBC and CBS HD channels seems very pixelated since I switched out the Series 3. Channel strength on both of those is around 70, while the rest of the channels are around 90+. anyone seen this?