TiVo Premiere

sivart

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No monthly fees? If not, I'll pass (lifetime subscription <> no monthly fees). Not worth it for 6 OTA channels and 2 recordings a week.
 

Kaido

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I've been planning on upgrading for awhile, so I'll give the new Series4 XL a try & report back with my impressions. It says it's supposed to be "one box", but I don't see any mention of 1080p file streaming, codec support, etc. They did say there will be user-created apps and third-party apps, so that's good news, but I'll probably end up going with a Series4 Tivo + Boxee Box combo solution. Some links:

Engadget Live from Tivo's "One Box" Event

Engadget Product Press Release

Engadget Series4 Premier Hands-On
 

ric1287

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God i hope they have some sort of streaming. I want to use one box, let me play avi/mkv & 1080p and all i'll need is the tivo
 

erwos

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God i hope they have some sort of streaming. I want to use one box, let me play avi/mkv & 1080p and all i'll need is the tivo
They already do streaming, but I don't think it supports much more than MPEG-2 natively right now. You'd figure that might change with the Premiere, though I wouldn't expect MKV support.

The press release itself mentions 1080p support, so I guess that's a given.

In general, I'm a little disappointed. A better UI and 1080p support were pretty much the baseline of improvements I expected for a "Series 4" device... the fact that they couldn't add any really compelling features like mobile device streaming (ala the Slingbox) or Tru2Way makes me think I'll be skipping this one - the old TiVo UI is really showing its age, but not enough for me to spend $300 on a new device with minimal feature improvements.
 
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