Except that, my Bolt doesn't overheat, and I like its shape and color and find the Edge's rectangle-on-a-rectangle a bit blah and odd (but it's fine enough).
Thanks for the scoop! As for TiVo Plus, based on what you're saying, perhaps it'll be the same kind of thing as LG's Channel Plus, which simply appends live-streaming channels supplied by Xumo TV to the OTA dial. In the case of TiVo Plus, it would add to either your OTA or your CableCARD-delivered channels. But unlike LG's implementation, I would expect TiVo to allow users to pause and do trick play with those streaming channels. Whether or not they could actually be recorded, though, I dunno. Frankly, I've never seen any of those live streaming channel platforms like Xumo or Pluto TV even post multi-hour schedules. They just tend to show you what's airing now and for maybe the next couple hours on their grid.
Dolby Vision wasn't expected to survive when they did the Bolt It hasn't really been adopted heavily till the last two years
Too bad it doesn't support a 3.5" hard drive. That is Bolt/Edge's biggest Achilles heel IMO.
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Since computers have been moving away for towers towards laptops, I don't think you'll even see a 3.5 hard drive within 5 years.
If it looks like a cable box, I want back up buttons and a clock on the front. Otherwise the Bolt form factor is fine.Except that, my Bolt doesn't overheat, and I like its shape and color and find the Edge's rectangle-on-a-rectangle a bit blah and odd (but it's fine enough).
PC desktop computers will never go extinct since a laptop with a similar CPU or GPU will never run consistently as fast and be regularly throttled back in speed to conserve both power and minimize the need for heat dissapation. Therefore the need for 3.5" drives will never go away.
While I agree that 3.5" drives will still be around well beyond 5 years from now, nothing lasts forever. The time will come when a 3.5" form factor will seem, in hindsight, to be ridiculously bulky and cumbersome compared to whatever superceeds it. There is a reason that 8" floppy disks were replaced by 5" inch floppy disks, which gave way to 3" floppy disks, which are now pretty much obsolete.
Outside of gaming there is no call for towers, and the low end ones are really laptops without screens. (have a look inside one). Entry level tower market is dying. As the companies go to remote work whole offices have dumped their towers for laptops.
Kind of a gross simplification since a laptop CPU is not exactly the same as a desktop CPU for reasons I stated earlier. There is also the video editing and 3d animation market which require large 4k screens and the appropriate GPU and CPU power to compress, decompress and render images. It's more cost effective to do this with a desktop than a laptop with a docking station.
Desktops are way big in the business world, where there may be no need for a laptop for desk work and where the savings can be way significant.
I use a tower, but I also have two 4TB RAIDs inside my PC because I get a LOT of large video files for my job.
I haven't had a physical PC at my desk for at least five years. There's a little terminal box that accesses my VDI.
