Been using SD menu for years on my TPXL.
When I went to access Netflix tonight a screen came up instructing me to switch to HD menus.
Does anyone know if this is Tivo trying to phase out SD menus?
The same ones that feel it's perfectly alright to have a monopoly that puts a stranglehold on competition by acquiring as many copyrights as they can get their hands on..
If it weren't for their MSO partners I suspect the Premiere would have been phased out already. It is severely under powered and is limiting what they can do with the platform. With the S3 platform they stopped development almost immediately after the Premiere was released. The Roamio has been out for over 2 years now and the Premiere is still keeping pace with updates. Perhaps eliminating the SD menus is their way of being able to keep that going rather then just EOLing the Premiere line.
I say embrace the HD menus. They're much faster now then they use to be, since they switched to HAXE rather then Flash, and there are some cool features you don't get with the SD menus.
So one person makes one post five months ago and you really feel a need to dig this up. For $100 I can get you an HD TV with HDMI. Now, get off my lawn!
So one person makes one post five months ago and you really feel a need to dig this up. For $100 I can get you an HD TV with HDMI. Now, get off my lawn!
Funny that this post was necro'd. My other half absolutely despises the HD menus, so we've had them disabled on our Premiere units since day 1. But our newer Roamio and Mini of course require the HD menus, so she tries very hard to never use those devices. The day we have to replace our Premier units with newer HD-only devices, or the day that TiVo completely discontinues SD menus on them (which personally I believe very strongly that they *will do* one day and there will be no undoing it), is the day we stop being a TiVo family after 15 years. I'm already looking into options to move away from TiVo as our primary media interface (currently we run all household video-based media through them by using PyTivo and Sonarr).
Personally I'm ok with the HD menus now that they aren't so god-awful slow, but the SD are still faster and easier to navigate IMO. I also agree with much (though not all) of the anti-discovery-bar sentiment, finding that it does slow down the whole UI and mostly displays shows I either couldn't care less about or in may cases, absolutely positively do not EVER want to appear on my screen as they will be highly upsetting to my other half should she see them.
Anyway, nice to add my voice to the rant here.
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