i installed a new DirectTivo for my sister in law last night. They got a new one from Best Buy and though it still had a TiVO symbol on the box, there was nothing TiVO about it.
Am i over reacting to the interface? Do I just think it's horrible because I am so used to the TiVO interface of the previous versions? Or is it truly as horrific as I think?
Things that were a single button push away with the old system are buried 2 or 3 levels deep in little menus. Things that were 2 button pushes away in TiVO are buried even deeper and require the use of unlabeled color buttons to get to.
And if possible the menu navigation is even slower than on the Series2 devices.
Can this really be the device that they have been working on for so long? If so then their IT department needs a house cleaning, or perhaps they just need to hire some interface designers away from TiVO
My visceral reaction to the thing is so intense at this moment that when I have to give up my Series2 at some time in the future, unless they have fixed this garbage I'm going to either go with Cable or go with a separate TiVO even with the increased cost...
DTV laid an egg with this new device as far as I'm concerned...
Am i over reacting to the interface? Do I just think it's horrible because I am so used to the TiVO interface of the previous versions? Or is it truly as horrific as I think?
Things that were a single button push away with the old system are buried 2 or 3 levels deep in little menus. Things that were 2 button pushes away in TiVO are buried even deeper and require the use of unlabeled color buttons to get to.
And if possible the menu navigation is even slower than on the Series2 devices.
Can this really be the device that they have been working on for so long? If so then their IT department needs a house cleaning, or perhaps they just need to hire some interface designers away from TiVO
My visceral reaction to the thing is so intense at this moment that when I have to give up my Series2 at some time in the future, unless they have fixed this garbage I'm going to either go with Cable or go with a separate TiVO even with the increased cost...
DTV laid an egg with this new device as far as I'm concerned...