[cwoody222]

Or maybe just an address redirect ?

It would be nowhere near that simple. Plus that would not be a long-term sustainable solution.

 

[cwoody222]

DirecTV would be the obvious and best choice in my humble opinion. They’ve partnered with TiVo before, and TiVo has an Android version of their OS, so I would think it would be fairly easy and very welcome to make a DirecTiVo version of the Gemini Air!

What would DTV gain for this extra cost of licensing TiVo‘s UI?

It’s not like throngs of new subscribers would come banging on DTV’s door because of a UI change that the vast majority of people don’t care about.

Normies don’t care about that stuff like we do here.

 

[trip1eX]

Finally happened?!?! Wow. Writing was on the wall even when the Edge launched.

Not only have to worry about guide data but also the cable company moving to IPTV-only distribution which the retail Tivos aren't setup to parse.

Not sure if OTA Tivos gotta worry about new OTA format?

 

[cwoody222]

Not sure if OTA Tivos gotta worry about new OTA format?

OTA TiVos cannot receive ATSC 3.0 signals so if your area demises 1.0, an OTA TiVo will no longer work.

 

[connie_w]

OTA TiVos cannot receive ATSC 3.0 signals so if your area demises 1.0, an OTA TiVo will no longer work.

That probably will be a while yet.

Broadcasters bungled free antenna TV. Now they want a bailout?

The FCC will consider rules to phase out ATSC 1.0 and mandate ATSC 3.0 adoption, but its use of DRM has alienated pretty much everyone.

www.pcworld.com

 

[CommunityMember]

Or maybe just an address redirect ?

It would be nowhere near that simple.

If one presumes the TiVo engineers are even minimally competent, it should not be that simple.

I am sure if it is, @Bruce24 will share how they did it (unless they are all hat, and no cattle).

 

[Worf]

I used to have a rather large collection of retail SD and HD BluRay DVDs, and not a single thing that appeared before the main movie (including the FBI warning about piracy) was skippable. Not the ads, not the promos, not the trailers, nothing. The disk disabled the player's response to all input from the remote that would allow you to skip ahead before the movie on every disk.

Back when I was still working, the studio 'screener' disks I got had none of that but every retail disk did. The screeners did have my full name appear every 15 minutes or so as an overlay for a few seconds to prevent my selling or copying them. My kid got a real kick out of that.

Disney, as always, was the most obnoxious about it, loading up the head end with 15-20 minutes of garbage.

The FBI warning can't be skipped, but the ads almost universally can be skipped - usually by hitting "Menu" or "Top Menu". But other buttons that worked include Fast Forward, Chapter Skip Next, It wasn't advertised, but commonly known. DVDs were usually the worst at unskippable stuff, and I don't know if they fixed it as I switched to HD media after 2010 or so and they almost universally support this.

Of course, there were also hacked DVD players that ignored such things and let you skip anything (usually from the same place you buy region free DVD players).

 

[BillyClyde]

As has been explained elsewhere, the Android TV version that TiVo offers to operators can not be offered to the public due to licensing issues (only operators can use it).

Is DirecTV not an operator? Seems no different than Blue Ridge Cable. 🤔

What would DTV gain for this extra cost of licensing TiVo‘s UI?

All of us! 😊