TiVo inserting short advert before playing a recording

Could you check your software version in System Information? It's the BSC that has me worried the most.

 

blue spinning circle:

TiVo Abbreviations​

 

My signature has a link to those abbreviations. I do wonder: whose servers? The thumbnail pictures are from (I think) Akamai.

 

Was this for every single recording you played back or just a few random ones? Very annoying either way. (I guess another reason not to use TE4).

 

If this gets applied to TE3 I completely agree. If it's TE4 only then won't affect me (for now).

 

I was afraid something like this would happen eventually. It's not enough they have our viewing history to sell for a profit, they now have to target us with ads.

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who's your service provider?

 

Just checked about 15 recording and none of them had any commercials at the start.

 

Is it fully activated with service?

 

Sorry, I'm not buying it.

 

Andy, are you signed up as a beta tester for TiVo?

I want to make clear that I am NOT a TiVo beta tester. But... a little birdie who IS one told me this week that they're seeing ads inserted into the Hydra program guide grid on their TiVo.

Before everyone freaks out, we don't yet know what these pre-roll streaming video ads or static UI grid guide ads mean. Maybe it's something that TiVo is developing only for deployment on their pay TV partners' TiVo boxes. And/or maybe it's something that will be offered as an optional way for retail TiVo users to pay less for their monthly/annual TiVo service fees.

 

Or maybe TiVo went a little crazy in the head.