TS4K Search Result Unreliable

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I'm a longtime Tivo fan, and love the 6 Tuner Roamio with Minis all connected by MoCa paradigm. Unfortunately, streaming with Tivo has never been "good" - and since they abandoned those of us that invested in the Roamio/Mini technology I'm looking at adding either Roku or TS4K to the mix, maybe cutting the cord with Comcast entirely and surplussing all my Tivo hardware (2 6-Tuner Roamios with tons of storage and probably 6 Minis, all with Lifetime of course).

I'm comparing the Roku Streaming Stick with the TS4K - I WANT to love the TS4K, but I'm finding serious defects in it compared to the Roku. The most significant is that search results on TS4K are completely unreliable. My TS4K has Sling with all the extras, including Turner Classic Movies, Netflix, Prime, YouTube, Hulu, Tubi, HBO GO, and the Old Movies apps. The Roku is similarly configured, but it doesn't matter because it will find EVERYTHING that matches your search even if its on a service you don't yet subscribe to (and give you the option to install that app right from your search results). So searching for the 1927 movie Metropolis Roku returns a vast number of options, the TS4K only finds a trailer on YouTube and a paid option on Google Play Movies, despite it being available on no less than 5 of the channels I subscribe to on the TS4K (let alone all the others that Roku finds it on).

I put all of this along with screen captures in a PDF since I can't embed images here (I know I can attach photos, but they wouldn't be annotated). Am I doing something wrong, or is the TS4K seriously messed up when it comes to searching for content?

 

ReelGood found Metropolis on TCM, Fandor, Criterion Channel, Kanopy, Fubo and 3 paid options (iTunes, Google Play and Amazon Prime). But it doesn't know I have TCM via Sling, so I can't click on it and open it, and it didn't report any of the dozens of other locations that Roku found it at. I think I'm leaning towards using Roku as my "cable cutter" and not TS4K, if it can't do the MAIN thing it's supposed to do I don't see that it has much value.

 

The TS4K just didn't cut it, I REALLY wanted it to be better than Roku. It isn't, and since Tivo didn't bother trying to integrate this into their existing hardware to enhance the poor streaming options on the Bolt/Roamio with Mini paradigm - I returned the TS4K and will be getting rid of all my Tivo hardware (2 6-tuner Roamios, 6 Minis, 2 HD and 1 HD XL). It was a good run for many years, but it's time to move on.

If only they had found a way to integrate the TS4K with the Roamio/Mini hardware to replace the bad streaming options on them, I would have paid to add 1 TS4K to each device just to keep the paradigm I've loved for nearly 20 years.