Won’t be buying any more tivos

You can skip the ads or just call Tivo to opt out and they will be gone.

 

FIX: Removing Ads Before Watching a Recorded Event

 

TE3

 

My first Tivo's were SD in 2003 with DirecTV and I also had the first HD box (10-250) they came out with. Eventually DirecTV started making their own DVR's and I went with them for many years. I did Beta testing for the Tivo based HR box.

In 2017 I bought a Bolt VOX and 2 minis when I got fed up with DirecTV and all their issues after AT&T bought them.

I had been ok with my Tivo's until they dropped the Comcast on demand and started the Tivo + and pre-roll ads. I began seeing more issues with lockups, frequent rebooting and lousy guide data.

My wife watches more TV then I do and wow did it get annoying to hear her yelling at the Tivo's every time there was an issue. Especially an issue where you couldn't fast forward or pause if you were watching a program that was also recording. Also the box wanting to change channels even though tuners were free.

Decided to try the Xfinity X1 XG1v4 last week and am really happy with it so far. The picture quality has surprised me by being better then my Tivo's even when set to 4K.

I don't like giving Xfinity more money after investing so much in Tivo's, but i feel like Tivo is abandoning its DVR customers to pursue the streaming market.

I also have a Roku and Apple TV but am finding I am relying less on them also since the XG1v4 gives me access to most of my streaming services and doesn't reboot in the middle of a show like my Bolt does.

I will not be purchasing the new streaming stick or giving any more money to Tivo. My Bolt and one mini will be used in my basement and bedroom until I decide if it is worth it to add any additional X1 boxes.

 

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To be honest when I first tried "Hydra/TE4" the first thing I thought of is it's like a cable company box. Probably mostly because of the guide. The reason I like Tivo is I liked it a lot better than the cable company boxes. I have not used a cable company box in a long time so no current models tried but for me TE4 immediately reminded me of the ones I had used in the past.

 

I also just tried the XG1v4 and agree the picture quality is just better.
The guide data is also more reliable.

What I don't like is Xfinity's implementation of commercial skip, or the (limited compared to TIVO) number of programs that have commercial skip applied to them. I'd also like larger hard drive.

Everything else I like very much...

The integration of apps is vastly superior to my Roamio Pro. The apps work well, are very responsive and would probably allow me to get rid of my Roku / Fire sticks. Something I wouldn't consider doing with my TIVO hardware. Also, Xfinity is slowly moving to IP and, as a result, my TIVO has lost a couple of HD channels (no fault of TIVO) so the XG1v4 also has that going for it.

Combined with Xfinity's on-demand stuff available via the box (free and paid), the new Xfinity system seems like the way to move forward.

I never thought I'd say this about a cable company box, but this one has convinced me that I should make a slow transition off my remaining TIVO hardware.