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Re: [TiVo] TiVo "Series 5" Info

Mmm gotta say the Xfinity app works great, same with the Web Video Launchpad, to bring the thread back on point.

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Series 4 TiVos are still being supported

FYI - An item on the Zatz Not Funny! blog site yesterday about a Fall Update that will be rolled out soon to TiVo Premiere models:

The TiVo Premiere Fall Update Cometh
By Dave Zatz, Zatz Not Funny! - October 15, 2013
»www.zatznotfunny.com/201 ··· -cometh/
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Fear not, TiVo Premiere owners… as our platform hasn’t yet been abandoned. And, within the next few weeks, the Fall Update will begin rolling out — bringing a variety of bug fixes, a far more usable Netflix app, Wishlists in HD, and dynamic tuner allocation for a better TiVo Mini experience.

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awesome. hope its better then the last one....
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But half of Xfinity Tivo customers will still not get VOD apparently...

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that's news to me. Isn't that more of Comcast's fault? I mean every Premieres are capable of the VOD service, it's the cable provider that needs to flag the account to authorize it or whatever.
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Tivo and Comcast mutually decided to halt the deployment of VOD after about half of the pop was done. ATL is in the non-VOD half.

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said by GTFan:

But half of Xfinity Tivo customers will still not get VOD apparently...

said by Mike Wolf:

that's news to me. Isn't that more of Comcast's fault? I mean every Premieres are capable of the VOD service, it's the cable provider that needs to flag the account to authorize it or whatever.

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Tivo and Comcast mutually decided to halt the deployment of VOD after about half of the pop was done. ATL is in the non-VOD half.

Yeah, see this previous post of mine in this thread for details: »Re: [TiVo] TiVo access to XFINITY On Demand

[NOTE - The URL for the MCN blog item about that is now: »www.multichannel.com/blo ··· d-steady ]

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wow that's horrible. God I feel blessed to be in the VOD half, but feel terrible for the non-VOD half.

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FYI - An item on the Zatz Not Funny! blog site yesterday about a Fall Update that will be rolled out soon to TiVo Premiere models:

The TiVo Premiere Fall Update Cometh
By Dave Zatz, Zatz Not Funny! - October 15, 2013
»www.zatznotfunny.com/201 ··· -cometh/

It looks like the Fall Update has started rolling out now:

TiVo Premiere Fall Update Arrives… Sans Netflix?
By Dave Zatz, Zatz Not Funny! - October 29, 2013
»www.zatznotfunny.com/201 ··· netflix/
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Probably the best immediate feature of the Fall 2013 update for the Premiere is dynamic tuner allocation for Minis (ala Roamio).

"4-tuner Premieres that feed TiVo Minis no longer need to "reserve" a tuner so the Minis can watch live TV"

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The whole thing is crap since they never fixed Netflix and still no program description truncation fix.

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said by telcodad:

FYI - An item on the Zatz Not Funny! blog site yesterday about a Fall Update that will be rolled out soon to TiVo Premiere models:

The TiVo Premiere Fall Update Cometh
By Dave Zatz, Zatz Not Funny! - October 15, 2013
»www.zatznotfunny.com/201 ··· -cometh/

It looks like the Fall Update has started rolling out now:

TiVo Premiere Fall Update Arrives… Sans Netflix?
By Dave Zatz, Zatz Not Funny! - October 29, 2013
»www.zatznotfunny.com/201 ··· netflix/

It appears that there's going to be Premiere series software update (20.3.8) soon that includes a Netflix app:

TiVo Premiere To Receive Updated Netflix App
By Dave Zatz, Zatz Not Funny! - December 9, 2013
»www.zatznotfunny.com/201 ··· lix-app/

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we'll see...

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Tivo and Comcast mutually decided to halt the deployment of VOD after about half of the pop was done. ATL is in the non-VOD half.

Good news GTFan See Profile:

Comcast & TiVo Resume Xfinity On Demand Rollout
By Dave Zatz, Zatz Not Funny! - December 19, 2013
»www.zatznotfunny.com/201 ··· rollout/

It's coming to Arkansas and Kentucky next, but hopefully Atlanta soon.
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FYI - A blog entry of interest today for TiVo supporters/users:

TiVo Co-Founders Prep ‘Qplay’
By Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News - December 30, 2013
»www.multichannel.com/blo ··· ay’
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On the MCN site this morning:

TiVo To Demo Network DVR Prototype At CES
Says Approach Can Help Operators Develop Catch-Up Services, Splice Targeted Ads Into Recorded Shows

By Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News - January 7, 2014
»www.multichannel.com/dis ··· s/147521

EDIT: This press release by TiVo today is probably one of the motivations for this:

TiVo Reveals Second Screen Viewing Behavior
TiVo Press Release, Marketwired - January 8, 2014
»www.marketwired.com/pres ··· 7125.htm
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Re: [TiVo] TiVo Roamio Series News

Some interesting TiVo news items on the Zatz Not Funny! blog site recently:

TiVo Android Streaming: “In The Coming Months”
By Dave Zatz, Zatz Not Funny! - January 14, 2014
»www.zatznotfunny.com/201 ··· -months/

and:

TiVo Coming To Roku?!
By Dave Zatz, Zatz Not Funny! - January 15, 2014
»www.zatznotfunny.com/201 ··· ng-roku/
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TiVo: We're Still In The Hardware Biz

An interesting article on the MCN site tonight:

TiVo: We're Still In The Hardware Biz
Says It's Not Abandoning Boxes Amid Report That Company Laid Off The Bulk Of Its Industrial Design Team

By Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News - January 22, 2014
»www.multichannel.com/dis ··· z/147829

EDIT: Also on the TVPredictions.com site:

Will TiVo Stop Making Set-Tops?
By Phillip Swann, TVPredictions.com - January 23, 2014
»www.tvpredictions.com/ti ··· 2314.htm
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Re: [TiVo] TiVo Roamio Series News

More news about TiVo’s upcoming cloud-based services:

TiVo To Buy DigitalSmiths For $135 Million
TiVo To Add Content Discovery And Recommendation Service To Its Cloud-Based Platform

By Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News - January 29, 2014
»www.multichannel.com/dis ··· n/147973
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TiVo to be deployed on Evolution-made HD-DTAs

While this is being developed for Vyve Broadband (formerly BCI Broadband), it's interesting general TiVo news:

Vyve Teams With TiVo
Deal Centers On First Pairing Of TiVo Service With Evolution-Made HD-DTA Boxes

By Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News - February 25, 2014
»www.multichannel.com/dis ··· o/148513
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Comcast to expand Xfinity On Demand for TiVo to all markets

said by telcodad:

said by GTFan:

Tivo and Comcast mutually decided to halt the deployment of VOD after about half of the pop was done. ATL is in the non-VOD half.

Good news GTFan See Profile:

Comcast & TiVo Resume Xfinity On Demand Rollout
By Dave Zatz, Zatz Not Funny! - December 19, 2013
»www.zatznotfunny.com/201 ··· rollout/

It's coming to Arkansas and Kentucky next, but hopefully Atlanta soon.

 
More good news GTFan See Profile! In TiVo's press release yesterday on their 4Q2013 results (»investor.tivo.com/phoeni ··· =1903930), they reported that Comcast plans to expand Xfinity On Demand for TiVos to all their markets:
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[Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo, said] "we are also pleased that Comcast has committed to expanding our successful integration of Xfinity On Demand to their entire footprint. This integration on the Roamio and Premiere platforms has been an important one for us, as the robust Xfinity library, along-side traditional TV channels and web content delivers a one-stop shop for home entertainment. Market-by-market rollouts are occurring now, with full scale deployment in all U.S. markets -- including Chicago, Atlanta and Houston -- expected to be complete by June 30, 2014."
There's some more Comcast/TiVo news in this MCN article late yesterday:

TiVo Profits On New MSO Subscriber Record
Sales Rise In Fourth Quarter, But Miss Analysts' Estimates

By Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News - February 26, 2014
»www.multichannel.com/dis ··· d/148553
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Looks like the TiVo Spring update will be deployed soon:

TiVo Spring Update Nearly Ready To Roll
By Dave Zatz, Zatz Not Funny! - March 27, 2014
»www.zatznotfunny.com/201 ··· dy-roll/

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According to people I've talked to at TiVo the 20.40 update is coming to the Premieres too. Hope we finally get the new UI on them and an updated UI for the emergency alert banner so it'll stop looking like it's from a Series 3. »cdn.avsforum.com/f/fc/fc ··· 350.jpeg
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LOL, I'd be happy if Comcast would just upgrade those old 486 PCs so we wouldn't get the white block letters on black screen takeover every time there's a worthless EAS. ANY overlay banner from a semi-modern system would be better than that crap.

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I think Comcast is moving towards the blue screen and red border. »cdn.avsforum.com/c/c0/c0 ··· 351.jpeg This picture was taken by me in 2012 during Hurricane Irene while I was stationed at an OEM command center with a DTA I brought from home hooked up because the tv is in a conference room that isn't used for any other purpose and my supervisors didn't know Comcast turned off Clear QAM and one was required for the tv to work and they wanted to watch the news to track the storm.

I wonder if DTA's and legacy set top boxes don't have the ability to produce a scroll banner are used that a forced tune has to be implemented. My TiVo's, Moxi, and the Cisco RNG200N boxes all do scroll a banner, but strangely, during the national test in 2011 they all forced tuned. Interesting article »www.lightreading.com/com ··· d/678391

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The TiVo Spring update has now been released:

Minor TiVo Spring Update Deployed
By Dave Zatz, Zatz Not Funny! - April 4, 2014
»www.zatznotfunny.com/201 ··· eployed/

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Still waiting on the damn Roamio UI to be pushed out to the Premieres, or at least fix the truncation issue.
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Atlanta was just added for Xfinity VOD on Tivo, got it on my Elite this morning. Works great!

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Congrats!

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Re: Comcast to expand Xfinity On Demand for TiVo to all markets

said by telcodad:

said by telcodad:

said by GTFan:

Tivo and Comcast mutually decided to halt the deployment of VOD after about half of the pop was done. ATL is in the non-VOD half.

Good news GTFan See Profile:

Comcast & TiVo Resume Xfinity On Demand Rollout
By Dave Zatz, Zatz Not Funny! - December 19, 2013
»www.zatznotfunny.com/201 ··· rollout/

It's coming to Arkansas and Kentucky next, but hopefully Atlanta soon.

 
More good news GTFan See Profile! In TiVo's press release yesterday on their 4Q2013 results (»investor.tivo.com/phoeni ··· =1903930), they reported that Comcast plans to expand Xfinity On Demand for TiVos to all their markets:
quote:
[Tom Rogers, President and CEO of TiVo, said] "we are also pleased that Comcast has committed to expanding our successful integration of Xfinity On Demand to their entire footprint. This integration on the Roamio and Premiere platforms has been an important one for us, as the robust Xfinity library, along-side traditional TV channels and web content delivers a one-stop shop for home entertainment. Market-by-market rollouts are occurring now, with full scale deployment in all U.S. markets -- including Chicago, Atlanta and Houston -- expected to be complete by June 30, 2014."

 
OK, Xfinity On Demand for TiVo should be available in every Comcast market now:

Comcast, TiVo Complete VOD Connection
MSO Now Offers Xfinity On Demand Via Retail TiVo DVRs In All Markets

By Jeff Baumgartner, Multichannel News - July 9, 2014
»www.multichannel.com/new ··· n/375794
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Comcast confirmed Wednesday that the MSO has completed the integration of its Xfinity On Demand service with certain retail-bought TiVo DVRs in all Comcast markets.

Completion of that integration has been expected. After putting that plan on pause last year, TiVo announced in February that it and Comcast had since resumed that work and expected to wrap up the deployment in all Comcast markets, including leftover such as Chicago, Atlanta and Houston, as early as June 30, 2014. A Comcast official said all markets are on board as of today (July 9).