Your Universal Remote Control Center
RemoteCentral.com
Custom Installers' Lounge Forum - View Post
Previous section Next section Previous page Next page Up level
Up level
The following page was printed from RemoteCentral.com:

Login:
Pass:
 
 

Page 1 of 2
Topic:
New Tivo Edge
This thread has 18 replies. Displaying posts 1 through 15.
Post 1 made on Friday July 3, 2020 at 10:12
Trunk-Slammer -Supreme
Loyal Member
Joined:
Posts:
November 2003
7,454
Got an email from ChannelMaster stating they have partnered with Tivo, and are now offering the newer Tivo Edge OTA lifetime.

Looks like they may be dumping their DVR as it's on sale at half off (was told it's junk).

Any thoughts on this?

I think I might just go with this for the main house, as I have an old model Tivo at the beach house and do like how it works.
Post 2 made on Friday July 3, 2020 at 11:13
radiorhea
Super Member
Joined:
Posts:
May 2002
3,264
Tivo is being phased out of Comcast. No more cable cards. We are having to offer solutions to clients that have it.
Drinking upstream from the herd since 1960
Post 3 made on Friday July 3, 2020 at 13:08
3PedalMINI
Loyal Member
Joined:
Posts:
July 2009
7,860
Just use a roku!
The Bitterness of Poor Quality is Remembered Long after the Sweetness of Price is Forgotten! - Benjamin Franklin
Post 4 made on Friday July 3, 2020 at 13:41
osiris
Long Time Member
Joined:
Posts:
November 2004
442
Do you record OTA broadcasts?
OP | Post 5 made on Friday July 3, 2020 at 14:35
Trunk-Slammer -Supreme
Loyal Member
Joined:
Posts:
November 2003
7,454
On July 3, 2020 at 13:41, osiris said...
Do you record OTA broadcasts?

That is the reason for the Tivo.


I recently used a couple of the new CM Omni+50 antennas, and will say I am impressed.

They actually work VERY well.

One in in my storage building, sitting on the rafters, under the roof, only about 10' above ground, and it pulls in every local station.

Highly recommend if you need an antenna.
OP | Post 6 made on Saturday July 4, 2020 at 11:20
Trunk-Slammer -Supreme
Loyal Member
Joined:
Posts:
November 2003
7,454
On July 3, 2020 at 13:08, 3PedalMINI said...
Just use a roku!

There's a roku with multi channel off air and a DVR?
Post 7 made on Saturday July 4, 2020 at 14:05
tweetymp4
Select Member
Joined:
Posts:
March 2003
2,139
On July 4, 2020 at 11:20, Trunk-Slammer -Supreme said...
There's a roku with multi channel off air and a DVR?

Air TV 2... works very well.
I'm Not an engineer, but I play one on TV.
My handle is Tweety but I have nothing to do with the organization of similar name. I just had a really big head as a child so folks called me tweety bird.
OP | Post 8 made on Saturday July 4, 2020 at 15:33
Trunk-Slammer -Supreme
Loyal Member
Joined:
Posts:
November 2003
7,454
On July 4, 2020 at 14:05, tweetymp4 said...
Air TV 2... works very well.

One problem with that AND the Tivo Edge CM is pushing.

Two tuners.

Honestly, I can pick up a refurb Tivo Roamio w/lifetime and a 1tb HD from Amazon for $249.00 (might find a working used one for half or more).

The only downside is the analog graphics banners, but tht isn't the worst thing in the world.

The AirTV 2 seems like a deal, until needing to add a HD, and then still come up short a couple tuners (which we use a lot).


What the hell, there is NOTHING on TV these days anyway.
Post 9 made on Sunday July 5, 2020 at 09:06
FP Crazy
Super Member
Joined:
Posts:
June 2003
2,940
I use a CM DVR+ with OTA and have been for quite a while. Formerly used a TIVO and switched when the TIVO went tits up on me. I like the DVR+. Don’t use it too often but it works well, records what I want, and the on screen guide seems to be fine. No interest in going back to TIVO at all. If my DVR goes tits up I’ll go on the search for a used one. But since the DVR uses outboard hard drives, which is what is likely the only thing that will crap out, I can keep replacing the external hard drives if needed
Chasing Ernie's post count, one useless post at a time.
Post 10 made on Sunday July 5, 2020 at 10:54
Fins
Elite Member
Joined:
Posts:
June 2007
11,627
On July 3, 2020 at 11:13, radiorhea said...
Tivo is being phased out of Comcast. No more cable cards. We are having to offer solutions to clients that have it.

I thought the FCC years ago they have to offer cable cards. Have they reversed that?
Civil War reenactment is LARPing for people with no imagination.

Post 11 made on Monday July 6, 2020 at 09:53
Dawn Gordon Luks
Founding Member
Joined:
Posts:
September 2001
1,178
No, cable companies still must supply cable cards -- unless they have transitioned to IP delivery of cable signals. Comcast, unfortunately, is working towards this goal.
Post 12 made on Monday July 6, 2020 at 12:27
Brad Humphrey
Super Member
Joined:
Posts:
February 2004
2,586
On July 6, 2020 at 09:53, Dawn Gordon Luks said...
No, cable companies still must supply cable cards

And unfortunately Comcast has figured out a way around this. They do NOT ship Cable Cards to customers. They make them pick them up locally. At each office, they have a big box full of Cable Cards... defective Cable Cards. After the customer has made a few trips and is thoroughly pissed off, they give up and just rent the cable box.

I have went thru this many times with customers in the past.
It was about 2 years ago, I was speaking with one of the Comcast line techs. He told me about the box of defective Cable Cards at each branch, then it all made sense.
That's got to be a horrible job, working in the customer service center. Having to hand a Cable Card to a customer, knowing the POS isn't going to work. And dealing with them when they come back pissed off, just to put the card right back in the same box for the next victim, I mean customer.

[edit]: This is how it works in Southeast GA. I remember when I talked about this last year, someone said they don't have this problem in their area. They always get good Cable Cards.
I find it hard to believe this is isolated to just my region. Maybe we were the test bed? IDK.
Post 13 made on Tuesday July 7, 2020 at 10:00
BHuey1969
Long Time Member
Joined:
Posts:
September 2016
198
I have two Tivo Roamio's and 4 minis (through MoCa) for going on 6 years now. I had one bad cable card at the start, but it was likely my fault, because I sat some other equipment on it, and it was bent. Luckily, the Xfinity store is only 10-15 minutes away. In addition, at the time, dealers had access to a special phone number @ Comcast, where the techs worked directly with Tivo techs, so you didn't have to deal with standard offshore tech support. I'm not sure if that level of support still exists there or not.

Once everything was up and running, has been fairly flawless ever since. 90% of any technical issues have been traced back to Comcast issues, and have been fix with a phone call.

I Chose Tivo at the time because it already had the apps I was using in it, and no OEM DVR's offered them yet. I guess I'll stick with it until it, if it ever does, becomes obsolete, and unusable.
Post 14 made on Tuesday July 7, 2020 at 10:35
ichbinbose
Select Member
Joined:
Posts:
August 2011
1,824
On July 3, 2020 at 11:13, radiorhea said...
Tivo is being phased out of Comcast. No more cable cards. We are having to offer solutions to clients that have it.

Are sure about this?
I just installed a TiVo a couple of months ago on Comcast out in cypress
Post 15 made on Wednesday July 8, 2020 at 11:42
Dawn Gordon Luks
Founding Member
Joined:
Posts:
September 2001
1,178
So here's the deal with Cable Cards and Comcast.

The good news is that Comcast has decided to stop deploying EPON pretty much everywhere due to issues with Community security cameras. So, for fiber neighborhoods RFoG is what you will see going forward. RFoG supports cable cards.

The bad news is that Comcast is intent on switching to IP channel delivery over the next several years, and once an area or neighborhood is all IP, Comcast won't be required to use cable cards any longer.
Page 1 of 2


Jump to


Protected Feature Before you can reply to a message...
You must first register for a Remote Central user account - it's fast and free! Or, if you already have an account, please login now.

Please read the following: Unsolicited commercial advertisements are absolutely not permitted on this forum. Other private buy & sell messages should be posted to our Marketplace. For information on how to advertise your service or product click here. Remote Central reserves the right to remove or modify any post that is deemed inappropriate.

Hosting Services by ipHouse