TiVo TCD748000 Premiere XL DVR
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The TiVo® Premiere XL DVR brings the best entertainment from cable and the web together in one place, on one easy-to-use remote, with one simple search across everything. It replaces your cable box and plugs into your existing cable service. So return your old cable box and with the money you save every month step up to a truly Brilliant TV experience.
- Record seven times as much HD programming as cable DVRs‡
- Get integrated Search results from TV and the web
- Schedule remotely from your iPad®, smart phone or laptop.
- Replace your cable box and eliminate monthly cable box rental fee‡‡
The ultimate search party If there’s entertainment you love, you'll find it here. Not only does Premiere find what you want on TV, it seamlessly combines search results from the web and cable.
Instantly watch movies & TV episodes from Netflix on your TiVo® box Netflix on TiVo†† puts thousands of titles at your fingertips instantly. TiVo customers who have a Netflix unlimited membership can instantly watch thousands of movies & TV episodes from Netflix via any broadband-connected TiVo box — with many titles in brilliant HD.
Browse and discover by category Our handy Collections feature lets you to find great things to watch by category or genre, like Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe or Sundance winners.
Get Amazon Instant Video movies & TV shows on your TiVo box With Amazon Instant Video, movies are typically available the same day they are released on DVD. TV shows are typically available within days of the original broadcast. And now hundreds of new releases and all the latest episodes of your favorite shows are available in HD.
Free TiVo App for iPad® and iPhone® Get the most out of your TiVo DVR with our free iPad/iPhone app. Put the power of TiVo at your fingertips as you browse, explore, schedule and share without interrupting the show you're watching. You can also schedule recordings from your phone or computer.
Brilliant TV is all the shows, movies, web videos and music you want, whenever you want them.† It's the world's largest video store at your fingertips. It's millions of videos from YouTube™ and millions of songs from Pandora and Rhapsody®—all on your HDTV. It's being delighted by intelligent suggestions for new shows, and discovering great things to watch through collections of shows you can't find on cable.
* New TiVo service plan required. Terms and conditions apply. See tivo for details. ** Multi-service discount pricing available for select customers. Log in to tivo to see if you qualify.‡ A TiVo Service plan is required. You will choose your plan when you activate your TiVo Premiere at tivo /activate. ‡ As compared to Scientific Atlanta Explorer HD8300TM DVR and Samsung SMT-H3272 DVR features as of February 2011. ‡‡ CableCARD required for receipt of digital cable service. Additional fee may apply from your cable provider. † Broadband connection required for receipt of 3rd party content. Additional fees may apply. †† Netflix unlimited membership required.
This review is from: TiVo TCD748000 Premiere XL DVR (Black) (Electronics)
This is my fourth TiVo box, and I upgraded only because the hard drive in my Series3 died (for the second time in 3 years), and I didn't want to pay Weaknees $250 for a 1TB replacement drive. TiVo got me with their upgrade offer of $100 off on the Premiere XL, so I got it for "only" $399 and bought it directly from TiVo.
I've had the unit working for about a week now, and I am definitely less than impressed. As others have noted, the UI is very inconsistent, and there are numerous areas where you default back into the old, 480i Series2 or Series3 screens. There is still the inconsistency between Netflix and Amazon pages (which also use the low res screens) and the rest of the UI. Worse, the screen often flashes or turns grey for a moment as the unit switches resolution from 1080i so that it can display the lower res screens. It is still unacceptable for a company that built its reputation on a simple, great looking UI to produce software that looks like this, but I have gotten used to it somewhat. But my wife saw these transitions the other day and remarked "uggh, that looks awful".
My unit has crashed -- and I am mean a hard lockup -- twice in the 6 days or so it has been powered on. I had to unplug the unit and wait for the lengthy reboot process both times. If TiVo is going to build such flaky software, they need to put a reset button on the front of the unit. It is a total pain to have to deal with these crashes, especially when the system is in the middle of a recording.
From a feature perspective, the system still will not stream from a media server unless you install 3rd party (in my case beta) software. The system still wants to copy over the entire file, although you can start playing it quickly after the copying starts. Given the competition from extender boxes from various companies, this is just unacceptable.
Did I mentioned that the UI is slow? Yes, it is slowwwwww.
TiVo also (at the request of copyright holders I assume) continues to lock down more and more recorded content, so you cannot save it to another computer or media server to play back later. The vast majority of my recordings on this box now prohibit transfer to any other device. I respect copyrights, and it really bugs me that TiVo is treating everyone like a crook.
Overall, I don't know what TiVo has been working on for the last 3-4 years. The software on this box is clearly immature -- it is clear no better than beta quality, and with all the crashes it might even be alpha. It is clearly not feature complete. I have hopes that it will improve as TiVo pushes out updates, but my 10 year love affair with TiVo is strained at this point. This system is NOT a worthwhile upgrade from the Series3, and it really makes me question how long TiVo will be around if this is the quality of products they are pushing out the door.
